What is a digital exam?
All written exams at DTU, where all aids are allowed (and therefore computers are allowed), are in principle digital.
One can expect the students to bring a computer for the exam.
For a digital exam, the assignment is set digitally and the students submit their assignment digitally.
If the exam on your course is not suitable for digital submission, this must be noted in DTU's examination reporting system before the exam.
The assignment is set up in the DE system
The assignment is uploaded to the DE system. Further information found
here
Instruction of the students
It is inherently important that students are instructed to submit their assignment digitally.
It is possible, and recommended, to take a test exam before the actual exam.
Prevention of examination cheating
With the digital exam form, there is a greater opportunity to cheat. This is nothing new, as the students have had to bring a computer to the exam for years.
DTU takes examination cheating seriously and has therefore launched several measures to counteract cheating.
- we monitor the network and can find irregularities in this way.
- we have a “code of honor”, where we make it clear to our students that we do not accept cheating, and we expect that the student at DTU would not think of cheating for the exam.
- by handing in the assignment digitally, the answers are checked via Urkund.
Once the examinees have handed in their answers, you as the course coordinator have access to them. If an examiner has been registered for the course (in CensorNet), he/she also has access to the answers.
Exams where a computer is not allowed
If you are a lecturer on a course where students are not allowed to bring a computer, the exam is of course as a rule not digital.
Access to the wireless network
As a starting point, DTU's wireless network is closed on those courses that do not want access to the wireless network during the exam. However, a number of courses operate with external programs/databases and want the wireless network to be open. If your course has such a desire, it is important that you inform the Study Administration well in advance of the exam.
Changed examination forms
The possibility of cheating during a digital exam is unfortunately somewhat greater than during traditional, paper-based on-site exams. You are therefore encouraged to make the exam assignments robust, so that it is not so important whether the students, for example, have set up their own network. One could imagine that the assignment is formulated more broadly so that the network does not have great significance.
Help for the students
The digital exam always takes place at the examinee's own responsibility. If the computer does not work, DTU cannot provide replacement machines. DTU has a few employees with an IT technical background stationed during the exam, so to a certain extent, the students can get technical help.
The submission/formats
If nothing else is agreed upon in the course, then submission takes place in the format that the student wants. As a starting point, we tell the students that the preferred submission format is pdf, but you can agree on other formats with the students (e.g. Excel).
Submission of sketches/formulas
For digital submission, it is important to be able to enter drawings and formulas in the right places in the answer. There are a number of options for doing this - a small scanner, a digital pen/drawing pad, or a camera. An obvious possibility is that the students use the computer's built-in camera to capture a drawing or the like. At present, it is unfortunately not possible for the students to use the built-in camera in the mobile phone, as the phone must be kept off during the exam.