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Electronic Exams: Student instructions

E-exam rooms instructions on coronavirus situation

University's Instructions on Coronavirus Situation are followed in the e-exam rooms

  • If you have symptoms of a cold, influenza, or other infectious diseases, the exam must be postponed.
  • If you cannot take the reserved exam, the booking must  be cancelled or changed immediately so that examination time is available for other students.
  • Wash hands and wipe down with disinfecting hand wipes the keyboard, mouse and the surfaces they might touch before beginning the exam.
  • Everyone can still continue to wear a mask according to their own discretion. Especially those who are not vaccinated and those who have a risk of contracting a severe COVID-19 disease despite vaccinations should consider using a face mask that protects them efficiently (FFP2/3). Instructions on the use of face masks in University´s instructions on the coronavirus situation 

For students belonging to the risk groups for coronavirus disease: If using the exam rooms is not safe enough for you, please contact the in advance Accessibility Planning: esteet@utu.fi and you must produce documentation of belonging to a risk group (e.g. a doctor’s note).  The special arrangements cannot be requested due to fear of coronavirus infection. In addition, living with a family member who belongs to a risk group is not sufficient grounds for special arrangements. Accessibility Planning create recommendation to use of Exam room for the special accomodations or alternative assessment methods, that you must agree with teacher.

 

E-exam rooms are locked and students can entered only with the access card (student card or print access these have to be activated earlier).  The front doors of the buildings students can find the phone number, if card access to the front door don´t work (mon-fri 8.00-15.30).

If you don´t have access card you can retrieve card from IT-services desk  on weekdays from 8 am to 3 pm and activate a printer access at the any of the multifunctional devices (access and print right).

 

More information: exam@utu.fi

What is electronic exam and Exam -system?

At the University of Turku, you can take an exam electronically. Electronic exams refer to those exams are taken with the Electronic Exam Service, which is supervised  with access control and video surveillance (audio and video recording) and has centralized maintenance. Educational Development and Counselling Services are responsible for the administration, instructions, help-desk service and guidance of the Electronic Exam Service, and IT Services are responsible for the technical maintenance.
 
All the examinations at the university are conducted according to the University of Turku Regulation on Studies. In addition to what is laid down in the Regulation, the specific principles and practices of the organisation, surveillance and grading of electronic exams can be found on these pages. Other modes of study involving online teaching and their grading are laid down in the curricula.
 
The general exams, that are available in the Exam -system and you can find from Exam-system by find box and reserve a time for the exam in the Exam -system or the registration link if you’ve received from the teacher. In Exam-system you can search exams by course code, exam name or by examiner name.
 
E-exam rooms are
  • Exam rooms in Turku: Agora, Aurum, Educarium, Publicum, Turku School of Economics and Teutori
  • Exam room in Pori:  University Consortium of Pori 
  • Exam room in Rauma:  Department of Teacher Education
  • Exam room in Vaasa: Åbo Akademi, Academill

Students have to make sure that they can enter the building when the exam takes place. In order to identify the student, the exam room is entered only with the student card or with a key.  Please make sure that you have to activate your card to the e-exam rooms. If student have problems, they can send email to kulkuoikeudet@utu.fi

If the exam ends after the building’s opening hours, the student must leave the building without delay.

You can learn more about the electronic exam by watching this video.

You can find mote detailed instructions for the electronic exams, registering for an exam and the use of the exam room on the menu on the left-hand side. Read the instructions before registering for an exam.

Terms and Conditions

When you use the electronic exam service, you have to agree to the following terms and conditions:

  1. In an electronic exam, the users have to comply with the University of Turku Regulation on Studies.
  2. The student agrees that the information of the access control system, video surveillance and examination system can be used to confirm the identity of the student: register for video surveillance at the University of Turku  
  3. Register for data protection at the University of Turku
  4. The electronic exams comply with the terms of use of the computer services of the University of Turku.
  5. University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University EXAM system accessibility statement