Exam Policy
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Policy Name |
Exam Policy & Regulations |
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Policy Number |
AC-04 September 20 |
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Origin |
Academic Committee |
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Authority |
Senate |
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Date of Original Approval |
22-09 |
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Senate Approval Dates |
22-09-16 |
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Effective from Updated |
22-09-16
22 -02- 01 |
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Review Date |
2027–06-30 |
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Responsibility for Review |
Academic Committee |
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Responsibility for Implementation |
Registrar, Faculty and Deans |
EXAMINATIONS
Examinations play a significant part in the evaluation process of many courses. Students should therefore be familiar with the following procedures associated with formal examinations. Any new material covered on the day of a scheduled, for-credit, test or exam, may not be included on that test or exam.
The following policies apply to all exams, for on-campus and online courses offered for credit at Cape Breton University. This includes final exams, midterm exams, laboratory examinations, practical exams, and similar assessments.
For all exam components, whether in-person or online, the precise procedures are at the discretion of the instructor.
An exam, or examination, means any component of a final exam, midterm exam, or smaller quiz used for assessment in a course at CBU that is:
• summative
• supervised
Note that even a short quiz is, therefore, covered under this definition of exam. The reasoning for this is as follows:
• A quiz is subject to all of the same academic integrity issues that a longer exam is.
• The rules around scheduling of midterm exams applies to quizzes. This puts very few restrictions on instructors scheduling quizzes during class time, but does restrict the use of synchronous quizzes outside of class time. Asynchronous quizzes (i.e. written at times chosen by the student) are unaffected. See the specific rules below on scheduling of midterm exams.
• An instructor has full authority to set the procedures for exams taking place outside the Fieldhouse. So quizzes run during class time can utilize as much of or as little of the process typical of an exam as the instructor wishes.
A component of an exam is any scheduled or unscheduled (e.g. asynchronous) assessment which is counted as part of the mark of an exam. The term “component of an exam” is simply acknowledging that the professor may break an exam into different parts which are administered in different ways, and possibly at different times.
A synchronous component of an exam is any component, such as a conventional face-to-face exam session, a timed online quiz, oral exam, or a sitting supervised by video conference, during which the student participates in part of the exam during a scheduled time, with supervision which could be in-person or virtual.
An asynchronous component of an exam is any component, such as a take-home exam or certain online activities, where the student has a degree of flexibility to decide when and for how long they will work on the exam component.
The exam environment is the space where a synchronous exam component