Examination at the Department of Informatics

Teacher

• informs the students of the rules on examination, requirements to undergo examination, the grouds for assessment and permitted aids during examination. This may be done at the start of the course
• finalises the question set a week before the exam
• double checks exam after activation (correct question set, settings, and information)

Note: Any changes made to the question set after exam activation needs to be manually updated in the exam. Please contact the study administrator if you make any changes closer than two working days before the exam.

Administrator

• creates and shares a question set with the teacher in Inspera in good time before the exam
• creates the exam in Inspera, connects the question set, applies the standard settings, adds all necessary staff and adds information for the students
• activates the exam once the question set is completed
• handles all contact with the examination office

Examination office

•  schedules the invigilators and prepares the exam hall

Student

• registers for the exam via Ladok 1-3 weeks before the exam date

Teacher

• visits the exam hall at some point during the exam (not necessary for re-take exams). If the exam is given at more than one location (e.g. because of students with disabilities) make sure to visit both locations
• is available to answer questions by phone

Note: If you cannot visit the exam hall, please let the study administrator know beforehand.

Administrator

• is available to answer questions by phone 

Examination office

• checks attendance and fills out the incident report
• supervises students
• handles technical difficulties
• if necessary, contacts the teacher with student questions or the administrator with practical questions

Examination office

• sends attendance list and incident report to the administrator

Teacher

• assesses the hand-ins, confirms the final results in Inspera, and lets the administrator know when this is completed
• certifies results in Ladok 

Administrator

• reviews and compares the attendance list with information in the monitor function in Inspera and notifies the teacher of any inconsistencies
• transfers the confirmed final results from Inspera to Ladok
• scans and archives Inspera scan-sheets, if applicable
• archives the exam

Report and certify results in Ladok

When the content of a course is changed significantly, whether by changes to the reading list or otherwise, the University has an obligation to offer examinations in accordance with the former course content for a period of one year following the change. The student shall be given the opportunity to re-examine on three occasions for at least one year after the change.

In some cases, remaining students on a terminated course may be examined on a new course through set transitional rules. In cases where this is not possible, the above rules is to be applied.

A student can apply for a credit transfer based on previous education or professional experience.

The student submits the application and documentation to the programme coordinator, who inquires with the teacher about whether crediting may be relevant. 

If the teacher approves the credit transfer, this is carried out by the programme coordinator in Ladok. The teacher or the director of studies certifies the decision in Ladok.

Applications or questions about credit transfers should be sent to:

• Viktoria Svenby for credit transfers on first cycle (basic- and bachelor level) courses
• Emilia Svefelt for credit transfers on second cycle (advanced) courses
• Carla Böhme for credit transfers on third cycle (doctoral) courses

Credit transfer in first and second-cycle education

Disciplinary measures may be invoked against students who use prohibited aids or other methods to attempt to deceive during examinations or other forms of assessment of study performance.

Grounds for suspicions of disciplinary offences must be reported expediently and without delay to the director of studies, Björn Svensson. 

Disciplinary matters at Lund University

Written assignments, such as theses, essays, reports and the like are submitted, presented, and assessed according to rules specified by the examiner. Assessment criteria should be included in the assignment description on Canvas. The Canvas assignment used for sumbissions should be configured to use Inspera Originality for plagiarism checking. Asking students to submit via other means, e.g. via email, is strongly discouraged. Whenever plagiarism checking tools such as Inspera Originality are used, students must be informed of their use. Include, in the assignment description on Canvas, a formulation such as “This assignment uses Inspera Originality for plagiarism checking”.

UKÄ’s guidelines to fair examination covers everything from areas of responsibility to grading rules. It is an important document for teachers. Below, you can find the full guideline in Swedish and a short summery in English.

UKÄ Rättssäker examination (PDF, 560 kB)

UKÄ Guidelines to fair examination – English summary (PDF, 58 kB)

The department has no obligation to organise examinations for students who want to take a written examination at another university or for students studying at other universities. All inquiries should be forwarded to study [at] ics [dot] lu [dot] se (study[at]ics[dot]lu[dot]se). 

Much care and deliberation should be taken as to not lose or misplace students’ written exams during the grading process. Since the majority of our exams and hand-ins are digital, this is a rare occurance. If, however, the unfortunate event of losing a student’s written exam should occur, the student has the right to a new examination opportunity within one week. This exam may be scheduled later, at the request of the student.

According to the LU records management handbook, student examinations/hand-ins must be preserved for 2 years and must then be disposed of. 

For digital examinations, this is usually handled entirely by the software used for handing in examinations. Because of this, it is not recommended that you receive examinations to your email inbox, for example. 

Any paper examinations should be handed in to the study administration after grading. The study administration will preserve and dispose of the papers in accordance with university regulations. 

According to the principle of publicity, Swedish citizens have the right to access public documents at an authority and in the sense of publicity students are considered to be outside the authority. An essay submitted by a student thus becomes a public document as soon as it is submitted to the authority.

The most common requests for disclosure are exams, reports, take-home exams etc. produced by a specific or general student. Note that this type of document is discarded after two years (except for graduation theses that are kept). So, it is not always possible to oblige the request. 

Public disclosure requests are normally handled by the administrators. If you get a request please promptly contact study [at] ics [dot] lu [dot] se (study[at]ics[dot]lu[dot]se) for help and advice since there are a lot of aspects to consider such as if the document is subject of disclosure, confidentiality, registration etc.

Disclosure of public documents and confidentiality

Regardless of the examination form, there must be an opportunity for re-examination, or completion, in close connection with the ordinary opportunity. 

Students who need to make completions must be given a deadline. Should the deadline expire without the student finishing their completion, the student is directed to try again at the next scheduled opportunity.

Students who have been examined twice on a course or a part of a course without obtaining a passing grade are entitled to another examiner, unless there are special reasons to the contrary.

When the student wants a new examiner, the student must be referred to the director of studies Björn Svensson.

Students with disabilities can get special arrangements for exams. The student must contact the Accessibility Officer at the Disability Support Services at Lund University (Avdelningen för pedagogiskt stöd) in order to get access to the special arrangements. 

Disability Support Services