Know your exam regulations!
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Please take note of the following exam procedures:
Timing of Exams: Exams will be proceeding at their originally scheduled date and time.
Technology Buffer: Please note that students will have an additional 15 minutes over and above the posted end times to account for any technical difficulties that may arise during the exam. Students should NOT use this additional time to write their exam. It is dedicated to the uploading and posting of completed examinations on Brightspace. If students use the technology buffer time to continue writing their exam and then have any issues with technology, their exam will be considered late, and they will be penalized accordingly (see below).
Penalties: Examinations and assignments must be uploaded to Brightspace within 15 minutes of the scheduled end time for the examination. After the 15-minute technology buffer zone, late examinations or assignments will be penalized at the rate of one grade point for every 15 minutes (or part thereof). For example, an exam that would have received a B but is 9 minutes late will receive a C+. That same exam would receive a C if it were submitted 22 minutes late.
Technical Difficulties
TIP: It is important to know these steps in case of technical issues during the exam that require you to continue by handwriting OR that prevents you from uploading to Brightspace or emailing as an attachment to your professor.
If a student experiences technical difficulties during the exam (e.g., loss of internet access, computer malfunction), the student must attempt to resolve the issue, following these guidelines:
- Ahead of time: Students should ensure they have a mobile scan app pre-downloaded and ready to use in the event they have to switch to pen and paper.
- Seek help: Students who experience technical difficulties, or who have questions for the professor during the exam, should immediately let the proctor in class know (or the professor if present).
- Switch to handwriting: If a student cannot resolve the technical issue quickly, the student should switch to handwriting.
- Scan and save: The student must then scan the handwritten exam response using a smartphone app and save the document as a single PDF, following the instructions provided in the following section titled “Guidelines for computerized exams”.
- Upload or email: Where students are unable to upload their exam response in a document to Brightspace, we ask that they email the document (Word or PDF for handwritten exams) to their professor and ask for confirmation of reception. The time stamp of the email must be within the allotted time for the examination.
- Reminder: If students use the technology buffer time to continue writing their exam, they could be subject to penalties (see above under the Technology Buffer section).
- If unable to transmit handwritten exam: Professors will not accept examinations or assignments in “hard copy”, nor can they accommodate students who cannot meet uploading/emailing expectations due to technological failure. Those students will have to write a new examination during the deferral period.
Missing an exam due to illness
- Absence from any examination or test, or late submission of assignments due to illness, psychological problems or exceptional personal circumstances must be justified; otherwise, students will be penalized. Please contact the Equity and Wellness Counsellor.
- Students must contact the Common Law Student Centre as soon as possible and, if possible, within twenty-four hours of the examination to be deferred.
- For additional information on deferral of examinations please consult rule 7 of the Academic regulations.
Accommodations: Information about academic accommodation procedures is available on the Common Law Section website. Students who wish to request academic accommodations should email [email protected] with a completed Accommodation Request Form as soon as possible in order to discuss accommodation requests and potential accommodation measures.
Academic fraud
- Take a few minutes to learn about the University’s Policy on Academic integrity and Academic Fraud.
- In accordance with University regulation 9.4 and Faculty regulation 5.2, students are prohibited from using electronic devices or any other communication tool during the exam. The only electronic devices that have been approved by the Faculty are a laptop used to write an exam and a cellular phone used ONLY for connecting to Brightspace with the MFA authenticator application to download and/or submit examination answers unless otherwise specified in the exam instructions for quiz or multiple-choice examinations. Communicating with your colleagues or any third party in any manner during an exam about exam questions or course material is academic fraud.
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