Exams
Note
This section is marked as “toupdate”: completely update
Administration
- When creating the course in FlexNow, we state that exams will be organized by the examination office (“zentral organisiert”).
- Team Assistant: order labels etc. (“Etiketten und Mantelbögen”) as needed
- The examination office sends out an e-mail request, asking for the number of additional students (“Meldung der Scheinteilnehmenden”)
Preparing the exam
ResourceResource
See confidential exam repositories in course overview
Creating a new exam
- Copy the
template_for_copying.texto archive and rename; Start with the_with_solution.tex - Update the header (semester)
- Check admissible auxiliaries (student summaries)
- Create exam questions (referring to
collection_exam_questions_and_solutions.tex) - Check whether all the contents were covered in the lecture (if sessions were skipped, the contents cannot be covered in the exam)
- Check specific notes in the
README.mdof the respective exam repository - Add grading notes, e.g., “Bewertung: pro fehlendem Zustand und Kante: -0,5 Punkte”
- Count points within tasks
- Count points overall
- Check for missing items (A,B,D)
- Spellcheck
- Copy the template and remove the solutions (including multiple-choice checks), update the header
- Update the
collection_exam_questions_and_solutions.tex - When the exams are not printed immediately, add a reminder to include the student summaries (if applicable)
- Print exams
- Add student summaries (if applicable)
Preparing materials
- Examination documents by mail
- Envelope includes:
- Important exam documents for your central exams
- Checklist for completing the written exams
- Name labels
- Examination protocol
- Event log during an exam
- Name notices
- Signs “Please do not disturb the exam.”
- Attendance list/paper check
- Checklist “Examination Process Flow”
- Supervision guidelines
- Information sheet on canceling an exam for health reasons
- Participants during maternity leave, “Scheinteilnehmende”, etc.
- Professor includes the exam sheet (and summaries if applicable)
Examination day
- Examination dates are announced via email by the examination office
- Materials are provided by the professor
- The secretariat will receive further important information by email, for example, on the topic of “identification after exams” (“Nachträgliche Identitätsfeststellung”)
Important
- Cases of cheating (Unterschleif): immediately enter it into FlexNow and send the exam to the examination office (do not grade it)
- Cases of missed exams (Versäumnisklausuren): immediately enter it into FlexNow, archive the exams for 1 year in the filing cabinet.
- Send the exam sheets, protocols (Anwesenheitslisten), and two empty exams to the examination office immediately after the exams are completed.
- Empty exams (Versäumnis-Klausur): archive for one semester.
Grading
- Create a reminder for the deadline: approx. 15. September (summer term), 24. March (winter term). Grade early because colleagues may be on vacation before the deadline (not available to review failed exams).
- Add bonus points if any and if exam is passed. Otherwise, note the bonus points and add a note “kann nicht angerechnet werden”.
- Do not dispose of empty exams
- Use the grading scripts to assign grades and prepare FlexNow import
- Have failed exams reviewed by a second professor
Entering grades (in FlexNow)
Note
Certificates can be issued if exams are not (yet) available in FlexNow (see process)
- Login: FlexNow - Lehrstuhlmodul - Prüfungsteilnehmer / zentral organisiert / Veranstaltung auswählen / Teilnehmer laden
- Formular zum Ändern einzelner Teilnehmer: Noten eingeben (Punkte müssen nicht eingegeben werden), speichern und weiter
- Oder CSV: export (utf-8), add grades/points via vlookup, import (csv-format: semicolon, no quotes)
- Im oberen Bereich: Teilnehmer laden, drucken, exportieren via LV-Semester: “Noten endgültig freischalten und verbuchen” (Nextcloud). After the activation, changes can only be made through the examination office (wiai.pruefungen@uni-bamberg.de)
- Only store grades as PDF (not as csv)?
- Klausuren entsprechend der Reihenfolge im PDF sortieren.
- The corrected examination papers should be returned to the Examination Office (via Hauspost) in a secure box or envelope.
Projekt:
- Dezentral
- “Teilnehmer hinzufügen”
- Noten eintragen
- Noten freigeben
- Noten als PDF in Nextcloud ablegen (ggf. Excel-Datei löschen)
Note
If grades cannot be entered, reach out to the FlexNow team via e-mail: flexnow@uni-bamberg.de.
ERASMUS students
For ERASMUS students, the FlexNow team has to assign students to modules. Use the following e-mail template:
Betreff: Anlage eines Moduls fĂĽr ERASMUS Studierende
Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen des FlexNow-Teams,
Darf ich Sie bitten, in FlexNow das nachstehende Modul fĂĽr die unten genannten ERASMUS-Studierenden anzulegen:
* **Modulhandbuch:** Modulhandbuch Bachelor Wirtschaftsinformatik – Studienbeginn ab dem WS 2024/2025
* **Modultitel:** LV\_721\_114387\_1\_81\_1 – Digital-Work-Projekt-B: Bachelorprojekt aus der Fächergruppe Wirtschaftsinformatik (Wagner)
FĂĽr folgende Studierende:
* Student name (student ID)
* Student name (student ID)
* Student name (student ID)
Vielen Dank im Voraus!
Mit freundlichen GrĂĽĂźen
Gerit WagnerOnce students can be selected, double-check the number of ECTS before submitting grades.