E-Exams at the University Göttingen
E-exams are possible in exceptional cases!
Attention: the university has issued a three-step Covid-19-plan.
We are currently in stage 1. Please note the information given by the university crisis management team here.
The presence-based e-examinations are possible with reduced capacity and subject to conditions.
If you would like to take a presence-based e-examination under the given circumstances, you must obtain an exception permit from your dean's office. The crisis team will then check whether or not the exemption is granted. More information on this can be found here.
You can download the corresponding handout on the conduct of examinations in presence
here.
We strongly recommend that you take a "Corona Test" free of charge in the Campus Covid Screen at least 24 hours before an exam. Registration.
We have compiled what else you need to know about conducting e-examinations for specific target groups under the following links:
As part of the “Göttingen Campus QPLUS – Quality Programme for Teaching and Learning” project at the university, supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture, the service for Digital Learning and Teaching of Student and Academic Services (previously the Department for Academic Programme Development and Quality Management) is establishing a central e-examination service which will be available to all disciplines.
The concept, organisation and procedures of electronically-based examinations are in line with those of normal paper-based examinations. Therefore these are also examinations held on-site, which are compiled by the responsible university tutors and then carried out and supervised according to their standards and taken by the examinees with the help of electronic input devices. In many cases the examinations allow complete automatic analysis and furthermore have additional advantages over conventional examinations.
Nevertheless, introducing electronically-based examining poses a number of challenges for the tutors. Therefore besides providing the infrastructure (rooms, input devices, examination system) the role of the e-examination service includes advice as well as technical and organisational support of the tutors in every phase of the examination process.
In parallel to the electronically-based examinations (summative e-assessment) the service for Digital Learning and Teaching will in cooperation with tutors expand the range of tests and exercises which are used to review the progress of students over the duration of the course (formative e-assessment).
In addition the resources of the e-examination service are also available for the realisation of grading tests (e.g. for foreign language courses) (diagnostic e-assessment).