Current issues
Summer 2023 opening hours
Oulu EXAM system is closed 19.6.-9.7.2023. The Examinariums, EXAM service desk and the EXAM system are all closed during this period of time. Note, that it is not possible to perform exams as exam visit, BYOD exams or any other way.
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Identifying students in Peppi
Peppi uses study right numbers to personalize students. Especially students of University of Oulu might have multiple different study right numbers.
The study right number will not transfer in EXAM, but in EXAM you can either see Peppi ID or Student ID. You can check these in Peppi.
Read instructions about identifying students in Peppi on University of Oulu’s Peppi instructions.
Fake course code not in use
When University of Oulu changed from Oodi to Peppi, we created a fake course code to EXAM. There is no use for the fake course code, because all the implementation codes are in Peppi. That’s why the fake course code has not been in use since 30.11.2022.
By Your Own Device -exams now available on Oulu EXAM
Content
Basic instructions:
Additional instructions:
- By Your Own Device (BYOD)
- Performing an exam in an undisturbed examination room
- Interactive pen display
- Releasing an exam for a retake
- Maturity tests
- Categorizing the questions
- Users
- Rules for students
- Supervising
- Cheating and breaking the rules
- Browsing reservations and submissions
Exam types
General exam
- General exams are open for everyone. Anyone can enroll in them. Normal course exams should be arranged as general exams.
- Duration in general exams is 3 hours (175 minutes)
- If a student has a need for special arrangements during an exam (for example a need for a longer duration) the Examiner must create a personal exam for this student.
- The Examiner decides how many times the exam can be performed independently by the students: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 times or infinite number of times. Recommended number of possibilities to perform an exam is one. If a student needs to retake the test and she/he has used all the possibilities, the Examiner can release the exam for a retake.
Personal exam
- Personal exam is used to indicate an exam to a specific student. Other students can not enroll in the exam.
- The Examiner must add students as participants in personal exams. N.B! Do not add student in the exam by e-mail! Always use the EXAM-users -list and student’s name. Read more on Publishing the exam.
- For students, who have a confirmed need for a longer 4 hour (235 minutes) duration, the exam is created as a personal exam.
- In a personal exam the number of possibilities to perform the test is always one. If a student has to retake the test, the Examiner must create a new personal exam for the student.
- Maturity tests are created as personal exams.
Joint exams
- With a joint exam, Examiners from several high schools can arrange an exam together. Joint exams are actively used for example in national doctoral examinations.
- Examiners are not allowed to create a joint exam by themselves. If there is a need for a joint exam, please contact e-exam@oulu.fi.
Paper exams
- In a paper exam the questions are in the Exam system, but students write down their answers on a paper.
- The paper exams must always be performed on the student’s home campus!
- Its is recommended to perform paper exams on a Monday.
- To create a paper exam, start by creating an exam by the general instructions. Instruct students that they will answer on a paper.
- You can add the questions to your exam in an attachment.
- Student must answer to at least one question in the E-exam system to conclude the exam. Create at least one E-exam question with a text: “I have wrote down the answers for this exam on a paper” and instruct students that they must answer the question “Yes”. Students must save and submit the answer on the E-exam system but also return the paper with the answers.
- More information on the E-exam instructions for students.
By Your Own Device (BYOD)
- By Your Own Device -EXAM offers a possibility to use EXAM outside the Examinariums.
- Student can perform the exam for example by their own computer.
- By BYOD you can arrange for example Electronic Examinations in mass lectures or home exams.
- BYOD can be arranged as open or restricted. In open BYOD student can use internet or files on their computer. On restricted BYOD the access to the files or the internet is restricted during the exam by Safe Exam Browser.
- Read more here: By Your Own Device (BYOD).
Creating an E-exam
Log in the Oulu Exam system with a supported browser (Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome). Use your home organization’s login.
If the system asks you to choose a user role, choose Examiner.
Click create new exam on the top right corner of the Exam desktop.
Choose the exam type and EXAM-room as the exam mode. If you want to create a By Your Own Device -exam, read the instructions from here: By Your Own Device (BYOD).
Basic information
Define the basic information of the exam.
In University of Oulu the exams are connected to Peppi by implementation code. Write down the whole implementation on the “Course code” field.
In Oulu University of Applied Sciences the exams are connected to Peppi by the course code. Write down the whole course on the “Course code” field.
Give the exam an easily recognizable name. You may use the course code to name the exam.
Name personal exams with the name of the student (for example: Maturity/Andy Anderson)
Choose the exam language.
Save. You can now find this exam in the drafts. (Dashborad -> Drafts)
Exam assessment
If you choose whole course grade as a type of examination, the grade of the exam will define the course grade. Partial course grades do not define the whole grade of the course.
Add other Examiners or evaluators if necessary. Examiners will get rights to do changes in the exam. Evaluators will get a right to evaluate assessments of the exam.
Special requirements for the exam computers and attachments
All Oulu Exam computers include the following softwares:
- Mozilla Firefox (entrance to the Exam-server only, no internet!), Microsoft Word (no spelling grammar), Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Paint, Windows Media Player, PDF-Xchange, 7-zip, Java, Java-, gcc/g++, Notepad++, C/C++, Codeblocks + Mingw, Mingw-kääntäjä, Catch, Dr. Memory, Cppcheck, Doxygen, Cpp reference offline version HTML book, NetBeans, Eclipse, Aiforia
Only part of the Oulu Exam computers include the following softwares. If these are needed in the exam, mark them in the exam info:
- Headphones (and VLC Media Player), interactive pen display, Mathcad Prime, LTspice, Moodle Stack-exam (alyoppi.mmg.fi), Microsoft Calc, Microdicom Viewer
- N.B.! Headphones, LTSpice, interactive pend display and Mathcad are only available in some of the computers. If you don’t choose these on the special requirements list of your exam, the E-exam system may direct the student to a computer that does not include needed software or equipment.
Inctructions
You can write instructions visible for the student during the exam. For example, instructions could tell how many questions the student must answer to.
Instructions visible for the student during the exam booking could tell for example for which course’s students this exam is directed to.
In the E-exam rules it is strictly forbidden to take own books or a calculator in the Examinarium. However, teacher can allow a special rule for taking books and a calculator in the test. This special allowance rule must be written in the instructions, both instructions visible during the exam booking and instructions visible during the exam.
Questions
Sections
Define sections and questions on the questions-tab.
- Questions are added under sections.
- You can create one or several sections (you must add at least one).
- A section can be for example a group of questions related to a certain book or theme.
- You can add several questions under one section (you must add at least one).
- Students see sections as their own ”pages” during the exam (page one = section one etc.)
Name the section clearly. If you want, you can give special instructions for the section in section description.
Add new section on the add new section -button.
If you choose optional section, it means that students have the freedom to choose whether to answer to the questions on this section or not.
Using the randomize questions means that the questions under that section will be randomized for the students. All the questions under this section must have the same total score to use randomization. N.B.! If students can perform the test independently more than once, they might get the same questions on the randomized section as they did the first time.
Adding questions
Click add new question to add a new question under the section. There are five different question types: essay question, fill-in exercise, multiple choice question (one correct answer), multiple choice question (several correct answers) and statement question (can be edited).
Creating a new question it automatically saves in the question library.
On all question types the question is written on the question text-field.
Define the grading scale (either by points or pass/fail). If you choose points, define the maximum grade.
On the additional information you can give more information about the question.
Owners of the question get full rights to edit the question if they use it on their own exam. You can add owners to the question if you like.
One question-specific attachment can be added on a question. (N.B.! Make sure that it is possible to open the attachments on E-exam computers)
You can give more specific instructions considering the question on question instructions. These are visible to the students during the exam.
To ease the evaluating you can add assessment criteria (not visible for students). These are only visible for the Examiners and the evaluators.
If you add a tag, you can find the question from the question bank by searching it with the tag.
Categorizing the questions
You can categorize questions in your Question library by adding a key word to the question. If you add a key word to a question, you can easily find it in the question library by using the key word as a search criteria.
- Open the Question library. Search for the questions by the course/implementation code, exam name, question text or by the name of the question owner.
- You will see a list of the questions fitting you search criteria. Find the question, on which you want to add the key word. Click the ID number of the question.
- Write down the key word to the field next to the headline “Add a tag”. Click Add. Save.
- Now you can find the question by searching with the key word.
About question types
Essay question
In essay question you can add recommendation about response lengths in words (=how many words is the recommended length of the answer). The students can see this during the exam.
Fill-in exercise
In the fill-in exercise students must fill in the right word into a hole in a text.
One question can include several fill-in holes. The right answers can be numbers or letters.
Define the maximum grade of the question. The EXAM system will define the grade of each hole by the questions’s maximum grade. You can not change the fill-in hole grades.
Example: The maximum grade of the question is 5.
- If the question includes 5 holes, one hole is worth one point. If student answers the right answer in two holes out of five, their question grade will be 2/5.
- If the question includes 2 holes, one hole is worth 2,5 points. If student answers the right answer in one hole out of two, their question grade will be 2,5/5.
On the setting of the right answers
- you can set multiple right answers.
- you can use an asterisk * on the beginning or the end of the right answer. When using the asterisk, the system will approve as right answers different forms of the word. For example if you define cat* as the right answer, rights answers would be cat, cats, cat’s, cats’.
- you define whether capital letters matter in the answer.
- you can set a numerical answer and approvable answer precision.
- Write down the question or statement.
- Hold the cursor on that spot where you want to add the hole for students to fill in. Click the small, yellow button with a small “abc” text on the ribbon.
- Add the right answer or multiple right answers on the first row under the text correct answer. You can add multiple right answers by separating the different word with a vertical line |.
- Define the case sensitivity: do the capital letters or lower-case letters matter. You can also define if the answer is numeric or not and what is the required answer precision.
- Save. The fill-in gaps are shown on a yellow background.
Multiple choice questions
There are two different kinds of multiple-choice questions: one with one right answer and other with multiple right answers. Options are added by add new option by clicking here -button.
If you add one right answer to a question, define the question maximum grade under the answer options. Mark the right answer by clicking correct-mark on the right side of the options You will see the right answers on a green background.
If you add multiple right answers, mark each answer option by points. Points to the right options are always more than zero. A false option has zero points or less than zero points. You will see the right answers on a green background.
Statement question
Statement question has three default answer options: true, false and I don’t know. Define the value of the answer options by points. Points to the right options are always more than zero. A false option has zero points or less than zero points. The third, I don’t know-option, cannot be edited and is always worth zero points. You will see the right answers on a green background.
Editing the questions
You can edit the questions you have already added to your exam on settings. You can either remove the question or edit it.
N.B.! Carefully edit questions. If someone else has the same question in their exam (in other words they are question owners), your edits will be shown in all exams in which the question is in. If you have copied other Examiner’s exam, the edits you make on the questions of your copy will be shown in the first Examiner’s exam.
If a student performs an exam and a question of this exam is edited afterwards, it doesn’t affect on the student’s assessment.
If you edit a question and the question library, the basic information on the question will change in all exams in which the question is used. The points and the instructions do not change.
Question library
Every question you create in Exam system will be automatically saved on your question library. You can use old questions from the question library in new exams.
In the question library you can copy, edit or remove questions.
Creating an exam, you can add questions from the question library by choosing add questions from the question bank. The question bank will open on your screen. Add a tag on the questions you want to add on your exam. Click add selected.
If needed, you can add the same question under different sections.
You can search for a question on the question library by the realization code, the name of the exam and by tags.
Publishing the exam
Define the publish settings on the publish-tab.
Add exam period. Exam period is the period, during which the exam can be performed. When the first student has enrolled in an exam, the exam period can not be edited. If you have to change the exam period after students have enrolled in the exam, contact service support.
Add exam duration (minutes). The default duration of exams in University of Oulu and Oulu University of Applied sciences is 175 minutes (2 hours 55 minutes). It is possible to arrange personal exams with a longer duration, 235 minutes (3 hours and 55 minutes), for students who have special needs.
Attainments before evaluation defines, how many times a student can retake the exam independently before evaluation. The recommended number of attainments before evaluation is one. After evaluating the exam the Examiner can release the exam for the student to retake the test if she/he has already used all the allowed attainments.
The students receive registration link automatically by e-mail after enrolling in the exam.
Adding students to personal exams
On personal exams the Examiner must add student(s) as participants to the exam.
- Put a mark on the left side of the EXAM users (preferred).
- Click the name of the right student on the list that appears on the screen.
- Add.
N.B.! Use the EXAM users -choice. Do not use the “new user” choice. If you can’t find the right student(s) on the EXAM users list, ask the student to log in E-exam system once. Then try again.
Carefully preview the exam before publishing it. The preview approximately shows you the student’s view of the exam.
Evaluating the exam
NOTE! In University of Oulu and Oulu University of Applied Sciences all the attainments done in EXAM system must be registered to Peppi manually. For now, all the attainments will be evaluated in EXAM and the grade is registered in Peppi manually.
Peppi’s assessment instructions for teachers in University of Oulu
You have access to unassessed exams via Dashboard.
The evaluation is completed on the study attainments or the study attainments by question tab.
Examiners receive a weekly e-mail notification about unassessed attainments.
To complete the evaluation, all the attainment information must be filled and the assessment locked.
On the study attainments tab you’ll see the attainments that have not been evaluated yet (=submissions in the assessment process), attainments that have been evaluated (=assessed submissions) and attainments that have been locked (=locked study attainments). Locked attainments cannot be edited.
Start evaluating a submission by clicking the name of a student on the list.
On the submission assessment view you will see the student’s performance. Student’s name, e-mail, time when student has taken the exam, place where the student has taken the exam and the computer on which the student has taken the exam is shown on the first window. The student’s previous exam attempts are also shown. If a student has added an attachment to the exam answer, it is also shown on the first window.
Under the general information you will find the student’s answers. Evaluate each answer by the grading scale you have set on each question.
While evaluating you have a possibility to give feedback to the student. The feedback box is on the right corner of the submission assessment view. You can open it by clicking the arrow on a green background. If needed, you may add an attachment to the feedback. The feedback is automatically saved and sent to the student after you lock the assessment. The student can read the feedback in her/his E-exam.
If the exam has multiple evaluators, the assessment may be locked only after all the evaluators have given their assessment. Only Examiners can lock the assessment and give exam the final grade.
When you have given points to all the answers, fill in the grading information. On the grading information -window you will see the total score, assessment status, names of the Examiners and names of the Evaluators. If needed, you can fill in the additional information sent to the study register or send e-mail to other Evaluators.
Fill in the exam grade, exam type (whole- or partial course grade), language and study points.
If you want tot edit the evaluation later, save changes. The assessment stays unfinished.
If the evaluation is ready, save and lock the assessment. After the evaluation is locked it cannot be edited.
Partial course grades
Partial course grade means that the grade of the exam doesn’t define the grade of the whole course. Choose no grading as exam grade and partial course grade as exam type. Save and lock the assessment.
University of Oulu: List the grades and other information on students for example in an Excel-format and send the file to your own Faculty’s Academic Affairs Service Team.
Oulu University of Applied Sciences: List the grades and other information on students for example in an Excel-format and manually write them down in Peppi.
Whole course grades
Whole course grades define the grade of the course which the exam is attached to.
Fill in the exam grade and choose whole course grade as exam type. Save and lock the assessment.
University of Oulu: List the grades and other information on students for example in an Excel-format and send the file to your own Faculty’s Academic Affairs Service Team.
Oulu University of Applied Sciences: List the grades and other information on students for example in an Excel-format and manually write them down in Peppi.
Automatic evaluation
It is possible to use automatic evaluation in multiple choice questions, statement questions and fill-in exercises. Exam automatically calculates points for these kind of exam types. You can overwrite the automatically calculated points by filling in the points normally when evaluating.
If your exam includes only automatically evaluated exam types, you can add automatic evaluation that evaluates the whole exam for you. You can set on this feature on the publish-tab.
Set the automatic evaluation on by clicking the green button with the text use.
Define the exam grades by percentage (%) of the total score on the exam. Exam shows you automatically the minimum points for each grade.
N.B.! If you add more questions or remove questions from the exam, the exam grades by percentage must be edited too.
Then set the time when the result of the automatic evaluation will be shown to the student. You can choose this by yourself.
If the exam is ready, save and publish. If you want to make more changes later, save as a draft.
When a student has performed the exam and receives information about the assessment, the evaluation status is shown as “automatically evaluated “.
The Examiner should always lock the assessment. Only after locking the assessments a notification about the completed evaluation will be sent to the student. After that the assessment cannot be edited. If an assessment is not locked, the Examiner gets a weekly notification of unassessed or unlocked exams.
Question-specific evaluation
In E-exam it is possible to use question-spesific evaluation. It means that Examiners or Evaluators can evaluate all the submissions related to a certain question.
Open question-specific evaluation from study attainments by questions -tab.
On the study attainments by questions -site you’ll see all the essay questions in the exam. The number next to the question shows how many submissions there are in this question and how many have been evaluated.
You can choose the questions which you want to evaluate. Choose the questions for evaluation by clicking the mark next to the question. After that click the assess the chosen questions -button.
In the question-specific evaluation view you’ll see the answers you chose on three different tabs: unssessed exams, assessed exams and locked.
- Unassessed exams -tab includes exams, which have yet not been assessed.
- Assessed exams -tab includes exams, which have been already assessed but the assessment can be edited by the Examiner or the Evaluator. When the total grade has been added, only the Examiner can edit assessment.
- Locked-tab includes exams, which have been assessed and locked. They can no longer be edited.
After assessing a question you can move the question to the assessed exams -tab and this information will update on the student’s exam.
N.B.! If the exam question has been changed after the student has performed the exam, it will be noted in the assessment view (in other words if the question is not exactly the same than in which student has answered to).
As the Examiner you can define the total grade and lock the exam only via the submission attainments -view.
Speed grading
You will find the speed grading -button on the submission assessment -tab. It is located on the right top corner of the submissions in the assessment process -box, on the right side of the download attachments -button.
On speed grading the Examiner only fills in the final grade of the exam and verbal feedback if necessary. In other words, Examiner doesn’t point the answers one by one.
Speed grading only works if automatic evaluation has been used or if the Examiner has evaluated all the answers one by one earlier.
Click the speed grading -button on the right corner of the submissions in the assessment process -box. The submissions will be opened in a list. On the right side you will see the total score of students’ submissions. On the right side of the total score you can fill in the grade. If you want to add verbal feedback, use the edit-button on the right side of the grade. Save.
N.B.! Speed grading does not work, if the exam language includes more than one language. To use speed grading in an exam which has several languages, at first you must fill in the exam language to all the submissions one by one.
Speed grading from a CSV-file
It is possible to import grades from a CSV-file. Open the speed grading and choose create a CSV template for importing the grades. The students’ information is ready in the CSV file, so that you only fill in the exam grade and the feedback.
- Open the CSV in Excel and choose the first column by clicking the A. The information is separated by commas.
- Organize the information by choosing Data > Text to columns.
- A new window will open. Choose Delimited and continue by clicking Next.
- Choose comma as delimiters and continue by clicking next.
- Click Finish.
- Add the exam grades on the Grades-column and verbal feedback on the Feedback-column.
- Save the file in CSV (.csv). If the grading is not finished, you can save the file on your computer and continue later.
- Return to E-exam and click import grades from CSV file.
- Choose the CSV you have created and saved on your computer.
- Save.
By Your Own Device (BYOD)
BYOD can be performed outside the Examinariums in optional room and with optional device.
Student doesn’t choose the examination time freely, but teacher defines certain EXAM events in the exam’s publishing settings. Student chooses the best exam event that fits their schedule and enrolls in it. BYOD exam is performed during the exam events.
BYOD can be arranged as unrestricted or restricted.
NOTE! Do not create Maturity tests as BYOD exams. Read instructions about Maturity tests here.
Unrestricted BYOD
In unrestricted BYOD student can use all the resources in their computer and they have access to the Internet. This is so called open book -examination. Note this, when adding exam questions.
Open BYOD can be performed for example at home.
- Log in EXAM as an Examiner.
- Click “Create new exam” and choose the EXAM type (general or personal). Then choose BYOD – Unrestricted as EXAM mode.
- Create the content of the exam by Creating the exam -instructions.
- Create EXAM events on the Publish -tab.
- Add exam period by the dates during which EXAM events appear.
- Add EXAM event (or multiple events) by clicking Add an exam event. Fill in the date, schedule, maximum number of participants and instructions. Click Accept.
- Publish exam. Students can now enroll in the exam event.
Restricted BYOD
NOTE! Always inform e-exam@oulu.fi in advance about arranging a restricted BYOD. Do not create a restricted BYOD without consulting the admins.
In restricted BYOD the student’s access to the Internet or to the files is declined by Safe Exam Browser during the exam.
Restricted BYOD must always be performed in a certain room, which the teacher decides. Restricted BYOD must always be supervised by the teacher (or by other person in charge).
- Two weeks in advance, send a message and tell that you are planning an unrestricted BYOD to e-exam@oulu.fi. Tell the date, time and place for the exam.
- If you are not going to supervise this exam by yourself, arrange a supervisor to the exam. Make sure that there are also papers available during the exam, so that students can perform the exam in paper if they run into technical problems.
- Log in EXAM as an Examiner.
- Click “Create new exam” and choose the EXAM type (general or personal). Then choose BYOD – Restricted as EXAM mode.
- Create the content of the exam by Creating the exam -instructions.
- Add exam questions.
- NOTE! Safe Exam Browser blocks all the computer’s resources, so you can not add attachments in the exam. Students can’t open the attachments. Students can not use any special software during the exam.
- Create EXAM events on the Publish -tab.
- Add exam period by the dates during which EXAM events appear.
- Add EXAM event (or multiple events) by clicking Add an exam event. Fill in the date, schedule, maximum number of participants, instructions and password. Click Accept.
- N.B.! The password doesn’t show to students. The password will be given only to the students who come to the examination event.
- Publish exam.
- Send students a message, which includes link to student’s instructions: https://ict.oulu.fi/5330/?page&lang=en. Tell students to enroll in the exam events.
- NOTE! Students must also download Safe Exam Browser on their computers in advance.
The examination event of restricted BYOD
- Students come to the examination event with a device, which has Safe Exam Browser. Students can not enroll into such exam event, which has already started.
- Students launch the exam via the e-mail which includes the Safe Exam Browser -launching file.
- The launching file asks students a password. Teacher or the person supervising the exam can now give the students the password which was saved on the exam’s information.
- When student has filled in the password, they log in EXAM. The exam will start automatically when the event starts.
- Student performs the exam. When the exam is saved and submitted, student clicks the exit link which EXAM offers. After this the Safe Exam Browser disappears, and the computer can be used normally.
- N.B.! If student quits the exam in a wrong way, they need a password from the Electronic Examination services to free the student’s computer.
Performing an exam in an undisturbed room
Teacher or the person in charge of the exam can arrange the examination in an undisturbed room BF128-1. Using the undisturbed examination room regards a certification of a need for individual study arrangements.
The undisturbed exam is created as an unrestricted By Your Own Device -exam.
Instructions for arranging an undisturbed examination:
- Teacher and student agree to the date and time for the exam in advance.
- Teacher makes a reservation in the undisturbed examination room BF128-1 during the agreed date and time.
- Teacher creates a personal, unrestricted BYOD-exam and adds an exam event during the agreed date and time. Read more instructions about creating a BYOD exam here.
- Student enrolls in the exam and enrolls in the exam event in the EXAM system.
- Teacher creates a Teams-meeting during the exam event and sends an invitation to the Teams meeting for the student.
- Student goes in time to the BF128-1.
- Student uses their own credentials to log in the computer. Enter your username in short form account (without @student.oulu.fi -ending).
- Student opens Teams, joins the meeting and opens the microphone and the camera. Camera is located in the roof. Teacher also joins the Teams-meeting and supervises the exam via the video and sounds coming from the room.
- Student opens Google Chrome and goes to www.exam.oulu.fi. They log in the EXAM using their own university’s Haka-credentials.
- The exam starts automatically. Student performs the exam.
- Student submits the exam in the EXAM system when ready. Then they close the browser and leave the Teams-meeting.
- Student signs out of the computer and leaves the examination room.
- Teacher evaluates the exam in the EXAM system. Student receives the evaluation information in their own EXAM.
Interactive pen display
There are 15 interactive pen displays in Oulu Examinariums. 12 of them are in Linnanmaa Examinarium and 3 of them are in the Dentopolis Examinarium. All the displays are available for students of University of Oulu and Oulu University of Applied Sciences.
Each EXAM point that holds interactive pen display has instructions for students. The instructions help students to make an assessment by using the interactive pen display.
Interactive pen display can be used for example when students must draw in order to answer the test or use such alphabeths, which can not be found in the EXAM computers.
If you create an exam for interactive pen display, please follow the instructions below:
- Start creating the exam by the general instructions.
- On the “Special requirements for the exam computers and attachments” choose “Piirtonäyttö, interactive pen display” as software. N.B.! If you don’t do this, the student’s test might end up on a computer which does not include interactive pen displays. That means it is impossible to create an answer to the questions.
- On the “Instructions” write to both instructions during the exam and instructions visible for the students during the exam booking for example the following text:
- All the answers on this exam will be created using interactive pen display. You will write down the answer on a separate Word-file. Open Word and follow the instructions found by the EXAM computer. Remember to attach you answer file to you answer in EXAM by using the “Attach file” -button.
- Add at least one essay question to the exam. You can either write down the questions as one or multiple essay questions in EXAM system or write down the questions in an separate file and attach it as Exam attachment on the Basic information -page. Either way, add at least one essay question and write the following text as the question:
- Write down your answer in an separate Word-file. Follow the instructions by the EXAM computer.When ready, write down to the answer field of this question: I have written my answer in an separate Word-file and attached it to this answer using the “Attach file” -button.
- An example of the student’s view during the exam:
- N.B.! You must use essay questions, because students can only add attachments to the essay questions. It is not possible for students to add attachments to multiple choice questions, fill-in questions or statement questions.
- Complete the exam by the general instructions.
- When you are evaluating the exam, you can download the student’s answer file by clicking “Download the attachment of the answer” -button on the submission assessment page.
- When you are evaluating the exam, you can download the student’s answer file by clicking “Download the attachment of the answer” -button on the submission assessment page.
Releasing an exam for a retake
On general exams the Examiner defines how many times a student can perform the exam independently before evaluation. The options are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 times or indefinite number of times. Default number in Oulu Exam is one (1).
After the student has used all the allowed times of performing the test, she/he can enroll in a retake after the Examiner has evaluated the exam and released the exam for the student. Note, that the exam period must be open: students can’t enroll in exams in case the exam period has ended.
If it is allowed to retake the test independently more than once before evaluation, the student might perform the exam several times in one day.
Exams that are 1) returned by the student and 2) aborted by the students use the allowed number of times performing the exam independently.
No-show -exams (=exams, in which the student doesn’t arrive) don’t use the allowed number of times performing the exam independently. They will be shown in the student’s exam history.
The Examiner can release the exam for a retake if the student aborts the exam and all the allowed number of times performing the exam independently has been used. Or if the student has used all the allowed number of times performing the exam independently has been used but wants to retake the test.
How to release a performed exam
- Open the reservations -tab.
- Find the student’s reservation by date, name of the student, name of the exam or submission status.
- Find the right student in the list. On the right side of the screen, next to the name of the student, there is a submission status -column.
- Click the release -button in the submission status -column. The button is shown if releasing the exam is possible.
- Instruct the student to make a new reservation.
How to release an aborted exam
- Open the information on the exam.
- Go to study attainments-tab.
- Open aborted exams.
- Find the right student by the name of the student, e-mail or exam time.
- Click release -button next to the student. The button is shown if releasing the exam is possible.
- Instruct the student to make a new reservation.
Maturity tests
In Oulu EXAM the maturity tests are created as personal exams.
NOTE! Do not create a maturity test as an open BYOD exam. In an open BYOD it cannot be supervised if the student uses for example Word with or without spelling grammar.
Start creating maturity test as you would create a personal exam. Note the specialities listed below:
- Always name the maturity test with student’s name. For example: Maturity test/Andrew Andrewson
- In University of Oulu the maturity test is attached to the realization code in which the test is included.
- In Oulu University of Applied Sciences all the maturity tests are attached to the code YYY10 Kypsyysnäyte.
- Duration of maturity tests is always 3 hours (180 minutes).
- Grading scale of a maturity test is always Pass/Fail and the type of examination is Partial course grade.
- The question type on a maturity test is always Essay question.
- Check the university-spesific recommendation of response length in a maturity test (words) and mark it as an instruction in the question.
Create the maturity test as Personal exam by Creating an E-exam instructions.
Language evaluation
The language evaluator of the maturity test is added as an evaluator in the maturity test. Evaluators can be added on the basic information -tab of the exam.
After the student has performed the maturity test, at first Examiner evaluates the content of the maturity test. If the content will pass, Examiner asks the language evaluator to complete the language evaluation.
On the submission attainments -tab the evaluator’s name will be shown in the assessment status -column. If the language evaluation is unfinished, the name of the evaluator is shown in red color. If the language evaluation is ready, the name of the evaluator is shown in green color.
Language evaluation:
- Open the submission attainments -tab. Your name will be shown in red color in assessment status -column.
- Open the submission by clicking the student’s name. Fill in the points to the essay question and add verbal feedback.
- On the lowest row of the submission view you’ll see a grading information -box. On the right side of that box you’ll find assessment status. When ready, mark ready next to your name. Save changes.
- Return to the submission assessments -view. Now your name should be shown in green color in the assessment status -column.
After the language evaluation is ready and saved the Examiner will see the feedback and the grade of the answer. Examiner is able to edit the feedback and the grades.
The Examiner will fill in the final grade of the maturity test and locks the assessment. After the assessment is locked, the student can read the feedback and the grade in her/his own E-exam. The student will receive an e-mail when the evaluation is ready.
Users
User who has an employment relationship (University of Oulu and Oamk): Examiner
Log in the E-exam with university-specific Haka-account.
Teachers operate the system as Examiners. When logging in, the system should offer you two roles: student and Examiner.
Examiner can create new exams, control the question library and evaluate submissions. If some of these features don’t work, contact e-exam@oulu.fi.
External user who has no employment relationship (University of Oulu): UFO-user
Read more information on temporary UFO-account (University of Oulu)
If you use temporary UFO-account and E-exam, do the following: log in once in the Oulu E-exam system. Ask for the Examiner rights from e-exam@oulu.fi. Tell your name, faculty and the request for the Examiner rights. When the Examiner right is set and ready to use, you will receive an e-mail.
Rules for students
It is very important for students to follow the rules of Examinariums. Please ask students to read all the rules and conditions.
- You are permitted to take only a student card or photo identity card (compulsory) and the locker key to the EXAM computer.
- All other objects are forbidden by the exam point. If you have medical or other necessary needs during the assessment, contact e-exam@oulu.fi in advance.
- Examples of forbidden objects by the exam point: telephone, pencil case, own papers, drinking bottle, food, jacket, handbags or backbags…
- In paper exams you can take a pen and a rubber to the EXAM computer. Note” Pencil case is not allowed and will lead to suspection of cheating.
- You are not allowed to leave the Examinarium before 30 minutes after the start of your EXAM.
- Leaving the exam room during the assessment is forbidden.
- Toilet breaks are not allowed in electronic examination.
- Its is forbidden to speak in the exam rooms.
- Realtime video and recordings are used to supervise exams.
- We make random checks into the exam rooms. You must be prepared to verify your identity when asked. You can verify you identity with an identity card or a student card.
There are lockers by the Examinariums. Leave your belongings there before going to the EXAM computer.
Supervising
The Admins of the E-exam system keep an eye on camera surveillance videos for cheating. They also make random-sample tests in the Examinariums.
Teachers’ responsibility is to check out the time students spend on their E-exam. For students it is not allowed to leave the Examinarium before 30 minutes after starting the exam. If student has been submitted their E-exam in under 30 minutes, please contact e-exam@oulu.fi to check if student has left the Examinarium earlier than 30 minutes from the beginning.
Cheating
If Admins notice behavior that leads to a notice, they send a notice straight to the student’s e-mail and if needed inform the teacher.
In University of Oulu if Admins notice cheating, System support sends a cheating suspicion document to teachers. Teachers read the cheating suspicion document and send it forward to the Education Dean.
In Oulu University of Applied Sciences, if Admins notice cheating, System support sends a cheating suspicion document to teachers. Teachers read the cheating suspicion document and send it forward to jokot.oamk@oulu.fi.
University of Oulu: Code of conduct for the prevention and processing of misconduct in studies
Oulu University of Applied Sciences: Code of conduct for the processing of misconduct in studies
Browsing reservations and submissions
On reservations page the Examiner can browse the exam reservations students have made.
You can limit the search criteria by date or by student’s name, exam’s name or submission status.
After defining the search criteria a list will be shown on the page. On the columns you can find information regarding the reservation.
By clicking the name of the exam on the EXAM column, you’ll end up on the assessment page. You can complete the assessment here. Continue by Evaluating the exam -instructions. You can open the assessment page only if student has submitted the exam.