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.
Please note that students will have an additional 15 minutes over and above the posted start and end times to account for any technical difficulties that may arise during the exam. You should NOT use this additional time to write your exam. It is dedicated to the uploading and posting of completed examinations on Brightspace. If you use the technology buffer time to continue writing your exam and then have any issues with technology, your exam will be considered late and 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
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:
- Students who experience technical difficulties should contact our technical support team immediately by phone or email. The contact information can be found on the first page of the exam.
- If a student cannot resolve the technical issue quickly, the student should switch to handwriting. The student must then scan the handwritten exam response using a smartphone app and save the document as a PDF, following the instructions provided above. If you have questions during the exam you can phone or email your professor
- Where students are unable to upload their exam response in a document to Brightspace, we ask that they you 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.
- Students who lose internet and cellphone access and have no way to upload or transmit their exam response document within the allotted time for the examination will not be able to complete their exam. Students will be asked to complete an exam during the deferral period.
* Please note for clarity: 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.
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