Online Examinations
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You should also review our Online Invigilation FAQs in advance of your exam for more tips on successfully using the invigilation platform.
Personal Mitigating Circumstances Form (Ticketing System)
If circumstances have impacted a student's ability to undertake an assessment (such as an exam or an in-class test), requiring them to defer the opportunity, a PMC form must be submitted with supporting documentation to request this. Deferrals cannot be processed without this documentation, and are still subject to approval before these can be processed.
PMC forms must be submitted by no later than 7 days following the original assessment opportunity.
Deferred sittings will be hosted at the next available sitting of an exam - additional exams will not be hosted outside of their scheduled sittings for learners who were unable to sit the main scheduled sittings.
Academic Integrity in Online Exams
Academic Integrity is an important element of any assessment.
Please refer to the Guide on Academic Integrity in Online Exams under the Quality Assurance section of the website HERE.
Referencing in an Online Exam, where external sources or material is used, is still expected, although it does not need to be as formally formatted as referencing in an assignment would be. It should provide enough detail to indicate the material was not your own originally, and where it derived from:
- In-text - direct quote (or replicated image) - (NAME, year, page)
- In-text - paraphrased - (NAME, year, [page if available])
- Reference List - NAME, year, Title or URL
This applies to:
- Lecture notes;
- External online sources (journal articles, news articles, books, websites, reports);
- Any material that you have taken from another source.
Although referencing and the open book environment means notes can be referred to, students must be careful TO NOT OVER-RELY on external sources (from lecture notes, external sources, etc.) as this will not be 'answering the question' - your examiner is generally looking for YOUR understanding, not a replica of their lecture slides or external sources.
Students should also not expect to pre-prepare answers to transfer into an exam - take some key notes as pointers to remember, but any copy-and-paste or direct transcription should generally be avoided.