College students face remote test for summer exams
College examinations will go ahead remotely with alternatives to the traditional hall exams at Galway’s two biggest colleges which switched tuition online following the cancellation of all campus lectures.
At NUI Galway, exams will be conducted online through Blackboard, Multiple-Choice Questions, take-home open-book exams, continuous assessment, projects, essays and presentations delivered via video. Most exams will remain two hours in length with an extra 30 minutes added for upload.
For a limited number of programmes, the grade of some First and Second Year modules will not include an ‘end-of-semester’ test.
Students have been advised that some online assessments will be extended beyond the traditional exam period to facilitate staggered online assessment and to allow sufficient time for essays, projects and open-book exams to be completed.
All students will have to complete a disclaimer statement at the start of each exam declaring they are not cheating.
President of NUIG Professor Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh assured students in an update that the quality of their degree was “paramount” and would not be affected by an alternative mode of assessment.
“Our primary concern is to maintain the integrity and rigour of the examinations process, and the alternative assessments provided for each module will reflect appropriately the same level of effort required for traditional exams based in exam halls,” he stressed.
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