Important Online Exam Guidelines - Psych 56

Exam Directions. Please read the following online exam guidelines carefully!

1. You are advised that if you have not read the assigned chapters, you most likely will not do that well---it’s a simple fact. I suggest you mark key concepts in the margins of the book so you may find them readily during the exam time, should your memory fail you.

2. The "Online Exams" have now been loaded onto the "Exam Website," which may be reached by simply clicking on the "Exams" icon button in the navigational tool bar located at the top of the "Course Section" Webpage as well as wherever a navigational tool bar appears elsewhere.

3. Exams are TWO HOURS. You may use any two hour block on exam day that works best for you. Exams open at 12:01 AM and closed at 11:59 PM the day of each exam. Each exam will arrive in my electronic gradebook with a "time stamp" that is quite precise---thus it is referred to as the "time stamp." Points will be taken off for lateness of even a few minutes. An automatic failure may result if overly late. Again, points will be deducted from exams that arrive much beyond two hours late. NOTE ON CHEATING - Online Exams are closely monitored. Opening and closing them on the day of the exam is perceived as cheating. An exam should be opened only once, taken, and then submitted. A computer program monitors this very closely. Students suspected of cheating will have the exam thrown out and/or other penalties applied.

4. Only the first submission of any exam sent will be accepted.

5. Please remember that each exam is unique, so it is important that you open up the exam, download a hard copy, complete the hard copy, click on the correct radio buttons and then click on the "submit" button.

6. Remember all questions must be answered. Should you forget to answer one, a warning in red above the question will appear. So be sure to scroll down over the entire exam if you do not receive a message that states to some effect or other that the completed exam has been transmitted--you may have failed to answer a question. This feature was added in to help students not leave blanks.

7. It is crucial that you use your full name, your correct email address, your ID number (last four digits will also work by-the-way), AND your user ID and password.

8. You are urged to use Microsoft Explorer or Netscape browsers, as they allow for your exam to remain viable on the screen even if your ISP (Internet Service Provider) kicks you off. In such a situation you would simply log back on and then finish up the exam.

9. From time to time, glitches happen. That is why it is important to make a "copy" of the exam that you download. You do this by using the "copy and paste" feature of a word processing application program such as Microsoft word. This way you can at least send me an email of the exam with the correct answers typed in should you not be able to successfully click the "submit" button. NOTE: Please do NOT send exams to me by email to "hand grade" when "kicked off" your ISP, if EXAM time still remains. Be sure to immediately retake the exam online again so at least an exam arrives in the gradebook. I'll discuss problemes with you later.

10. You need to know that if you "re-sign on" and "bring up" an exam again it will be different from the one you previously began working on, that is why paragraph "9" above is so important.

11. In the event that you are unable to complete the online exam for any reason, you would then have to sit for the designated "make-up" exam, which is the fifth exam. In that event you would not enjoy having the lowest grade dropped from among the five exams.

12. IMPORTANT! If for some reason a major "melt down" occurs at SRJC Computing Services, I will be notified, and accordingly, I will notify you and make other arrangements for testing on another day. If the SRJC servers fail briefly doing the exam, the exam time will be expanded. For this reason it is important that you check your email box prior to and during exams in case problems develop. I will use that forum to keep you abreast. Also it is wise to give yourself at least a two-hour "time window" to complete the exam. Once during a summer course, a glitch did develop, that prevented students from sending in their exams within the correct time stamp period. I simply subtracted the down time from the actual arrival time and everything was fine. Such glitches are rare.

13. Once I have all exams on file, I will send a copy of your corrected exam back to your "gradebook and portfolio" -- usually within one or two days. Also, as a safeguard, you may wish to view the course gradebook after you submit an exam, to see if a "checkmark" appears in the box of the exam you just took. This checkmark assures your exam in fact has arrived safely.

14. AGAIN: NOTE ON CHEATING - Online Exams are closely monitored. Opening and closing them on the day of the exam is perceived as cheating. An exam should be opened only once, taken, and then submitted. A computer program monitors this very closely. Students suspected of cheating will have the exam thrown out and/or other penalties applied.

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