Rules and regulations
Universities and colleges are responsible for ensuring that candidates' knowledge and skills are assessed in an impartial and academically robust manner. The assessment should also ensure the academic level of the respective program.
All execution of exams is regulated by the Act relating to universities and university colleges and the Regulations governing studies and examinations at the University of Oslo.
Requirements for universal design
All content published on the internet or for teaching purposes should be universally designed, including exam tasks. Note that attachments must adhere to the requirements for universal design (UD), and must not contain active web links. Figures should have detailed descriptions.
For more information, visit EILIN Network for Learning and Teaching.
Areas of responsibility for the course convenor
- Planning for next semester
- Propose exam weeks for the next semester in consultation with the student advisor for the course. This should be done in conjunction with course planning, as outlined in the routine for course planning.
- For the current semester:
- Ensure that the list of pass/fail obligatory requirements for the course is submitted to the student advisor well in advance of the start of the exam.
- Create the exam question set and deliver it to the student advisor minimum 2 weeks before the exam. It should be academically validated/verified. For school exams, the deadline can be set earlier than 2 weeks.
- Provide grading guidelines to the student advisor, ideally upon submission of exam question.
Exam Language
The exam is given in the same language as the course.
By default, students are allowed to answer in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, and English regardless of the language used in the exam task. Customized rules may apply to certain courses and study programmes.
English assignment text
In some cases, we receive requests from students for English assignment texts in Norwegian courses. The request is sent to the student advisor via SV-Info. If the course convenor approves the application for this, it is the course convenor who creates the English version.
Nynorsk
- Student advisor checks the need for Nynorsk
- If students in the course have Nynorsk as their preferred written language, the student adviser sends the exam text to the translation agency.
- The student advisor inserts the translated exam text into Inspera.
- The translation should, as far as possible, be quality checked by the course convenor.
Availability on the day of the exam
The course convenor should be available on the day of the exam (for school exams), both via email and mobile phone.
Note: The course convenor must appoint a substitute in case they cannot be available themselves during the exam.
- Inform the student adviser of who the substitute is and provide their mobile phone number.
- It is the responsibility of the course convenor to provide the substitute with information about their role (what can and cannot be answered during the exam).
Support round
Support round is up to the individual course convenor, there is no requirement. Please notify the student adviser if you choose to have a comfort round, as they need this information. If there is no comfort round, provide the course convenor's mobile number to the faculty in case of any uncertainties in the exam questions.
Examiner guidelines
All exams should have an examiner's guide.
The examiner's guide should be available at the same time as the exam task and uploaded in Inspera. The student advisor publishes the examiner's guide on the course page after grading is released.
For more information on examiner's guides, please visit the faculty's website
Grading
The course convenor generally grades exams for their own course and may be asked to suggest other graders for the course. However, it is the Head of Studies who ultimately determines the grading schedule for the programme's courses based on considerations in the staff's workload.
Commission distribution and double grading
The department operates under a grading system where papers are graded by one grader, with 20% double grading.
Each course is assigned a minimum of two graders, and there is an automated selection of papers that require double grading.
Note: Double grading should commence early in the grading process to ensure early placement of grade levels.
In exams where 20 or fewer students submit, all papers must be graded by two graders together.
UiO uses the digital exam solution Inspera.
Appeal on grades
- The course convenor is encouraged to suggest a complaint commission.
- The examiner's guide used in the regular grading is provided to the complaint commission, along with the exam task and the exam text*.
- The law on the right to access requires that an examiner's guide should be published after the grades have been assigned. The student advisor publishes the examiner's guide on the course page after the grades have been assigned.
*Due to the implementation of blind grading appeals at UiO in 2014, no other documentation should accompany a grade appeal. However, it is allowed to include the grade distribution for the course after regular grading.