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  • Zoom is available to all employees of York University.
  • To activate your account, go to https://yorku.zoom.us and click “Sign In”.
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Options for Adapting Exams

If the exam focuses on information recall and simple calculations

  • Recommended approach: A multiple-choice quiz set up through the Moodle’s Quiz Activity. Questions appear in a random order for students.
  • Suitable for: Knowledge and information recall. Basic calculations, or simple solutions to problems.
  • How to:
    • Create exam in Moodle quiz using multiple- choice or calculated simple or multiple- choice questions.
      • Randomize question order and answer order.
    • Distribute through a Moodle’s Quiz Activity, available at a specific date and time.
    • Submission through the Moodle quiz.

If the exam involves a mixture of knowledge recall, simple calculations, as well as solving scoped problems

  • Recommended approach: Create an open-book exam paper where one question is released at a time for students to complete before moving onto the next.
  • Suitable for: Scoped problems where there are right answers to be found.
  • How to:
    • Write the exam in a word/pdf format, separating out each question for separate release.
    • Distribute through a Moodle’s Assignment Activity, with different questions available at different times on a specific date
    • Submission through Moodle Assignment Activity, with specific due date/time, with each questions submitted separated.  Submission could be photos or word documents.
    • A tutorial video on using Assignment Activity on Moodle is available here.

If the exam focuses on solving scoped problems where the right answer had to be found

  • Recommended approach: Create an open-book exam released to all students at the same time, but different groups of students receive either different questions or different numbers in the questions.
  • Suitable for: Scoped problems and procedural questions. Can ask questionswhere there is a right answer to be found.
  • How to:
    • Create 2-3 different “versions” of exams in a Word/PDF format
    • Distribute to students using Moodle’s Assignment Activity.  Each version of exam is assigned to a group of students, available at a specific date/time.
    • Submission through Moodle at a specific date and time. Submission could be photos of the student’s worked solutions or a word document.
    • A tutorial video on using Assignment Activity on Moodle is available here.

If the exam focuses on solving scoped problems that do not involve finding the right answer

  • Recommended approach: Create an open-book exam released to all students at the same time.
  • Suitable for:Scoped problems and in some cases procedural questions.
  • How to:
    • Write the exam in a word/pdf format.
    • Distribute to students using Moodle’s Assignment Activity, made available to students at a specific date/time.
    • Submission through Moodle at a specific date and time. Submission could be photos of the student’s worked solutions or a word document.
    • A tutorial video on using Assignment Activity on Moodle is available here.

If the exam focuses on procedural approaches

  • Recommended approach:A standard open-book exam where questions are delivered through a Moodle quiz and students upload photos of their working.
  • Suitable for:Problems that are longer or more complex, where procedural approaches are being tested.
  • How to:
    • Create exam in Moodle quiz using the Essay type, that allows the uploading of files (pictures of student working).
    • Distribute through a Moodle quiz, available at a specific date and time.
    • Submission through the Moodle quiz through uploading photos.

If the exam focuses on real world problems

  • Recommended approach: Create an open-book exam that students can complete in their own time, usually over a few days
  • Suitable for: Real-world and open- ended problems that require higher-order thinking skills.
  • How to:
    • Write the exam in a word/pdf format
    • Distribute through a Moodle’s Assignment Activity, available at a specific date and time.
    • Students will submit through Moodle at a specific date and time. Submission could be photos of the student’s working or a word document.
    • A tutorial video on using Assignment Activity on Moodle is available here.

Points to Consider for Adapting Exams

  • Consider the complications and challenges students are experiencing while in self-isolation.  Please take a look at this page on how to support students in completing their remaining assessments.
  • There are two aspects of traditional final exams that we CANNOT count on for this semester:
    • Proctored – There is NO access to online exam products that can provide proctoring capabilities. We will have to assume students have access to and will use course and other information during the exam – Consider final assessments as open book
    • Timed – The timing of assessments is challenging to monitor at a distance, so if time completion is NOT a critical factor in student success, then consider allowing increased time.
  • Open Book: Virtual exams are a type of open book exam. Instructors to devise questions that require students to answer in critical and analytical ways encouraging high-order thinking skills, rather than rote learning and superficial application of knowledge. Students can access course materials while undertaking the exam.
  • Synchronicity: Consider if you want to run a synchronous virtual exam (where everyone is taking the exam at the same set time) or an asynchronous virtual exam (where there is a time window in which the exam could be taken). Note: the original ‘in person’ exam schedule remains posted and we recommend instructors use those times for virtual exams.
  • Isolation: Consider the complications and challenges students are experiencing while in self-isolation.
  • Communicate: Clearly, empathetically and often about what you are planning, you will better support your students undertaking exams in unfamiliar ways.
  • Timing: If you are running a synchronous virtual exam, you should allow more time than a regular face to face exam, to deal with any technology issues, as well as recognizing that students are having to manage in an unfamiliar format. Generally it is advised to add an extra 1 hour to a 2 or 3 hour exam.
  • Student preparedness: Students will need support in how to conduct a virtual exam. If it is an open-book they may think that is easier and fail to properly prepare.
  • Identity of students: While it is more difficult to confirm a student’s identity in virtual exams, one of the main tactics that can be used to address this is to conduct all access and submission of exam questions through the course Moodle site, where a student has to be logged in themselves. Approaches such as emailing or using third party applications are not as robust
  • Academic Integrity:
    • While plagiarism cannot be eliminated entirely in non-proctored assessments, there are different ways of either reducing possible plagiarism or checking for plagiarized work. For further details, you can view this video by Dr. Tricia Bertram Gallant of the International Center for Academic Integrity on Going Remote with Integrity
    • You might want to consider adding an academic integrity statement at the bottom of your assignment and communicate it to students at the outset.  An example is found below.

Academic Integrity Statement Example

By putting my name to this statement, I attest to the fact that it is my own work that has been submitted in this assessment and that it adheres to the rules and policies laid out at https://lassonde.yorku.ca/academic-integrity*.

Signed: ______________       Dated: _____________

*You might also want to (re)visit the York University Student Papers and Academic Research Kit (SPARK) –https://spark.library.yorku.ca/academic-integrity-what-is-academic-integrity/

Two Options for Adapting Presentations

Submit Presentations as YouTube Videos

  1. Create an Assignment Activity on Moodle
  2. Set a specific due date / time for the assignment
  3. Ask students to create a video of their presentation and upload to YouTube as an “unlisted” video
  4. Ask students to submit a link to the YouTube video to Moodle using the Assignment Activity
  5. Grade students in Moodle
  • A tutorial video on using Assignment Activity on Moodle is available here.

Present using Zoom at a pre-arranged time

  1. Create a Zoom meeting with a pre-arranged time – you will be the host
  2. Ask students to join the Zoom meeting at the pre-arranged time
  3. Ask students to share their screens and present that way
  4. Multiple students can join the same zoom meeting

Points to Consider for Adapting Written Assignments

  • Isolation: Consider the complications and challenges students are experiencing while in self-isolation.  Please take a look at this page on how to support students in completing their remaining assessments.
  • Communicate: Clearly, empathetically and often about what you are planning, you will better support your students facing unfamiliar ways.
  • Academic Integrity:
    • While plagiarism cannot be eliminated entirely in non-proctored assessments, there are different ways of either reducing possible plagiarism or checking for plagiarized work. For further details, you can view this video by Dr. Tricia Bertram Gallant of the International Center for Academic Integrity on Going Remote with Integrity
    • You might want to consider adding an academic integrity statement at the bottom of your assignment and communicate it to students at the outset.  An example is found below.

Academic Integrity Statement Example

By putting my name to this statement, I attest to the fact that it is my own work that has been submitted in this assessment and that it adheres to the rules and policies laid out at https://lassonde.yorku.ca/academic-integrity*.

Signed: ______________       Dated: _____________

*You might also want to (re)visit the York University Student Papers and Academic Research Kit (SPARK) –https://spark.library.yorku.ca/academic-integrity-what-is-academic-integrity/

How to Adapt Project Assignments

  1. Create an Assignment Activity on Moodle
  2. Set a specific due date / time for the assignment
  3. Ask students to submit their work via Moodle using the Assignment Activity you have created
  4. Depend on the nature of the project, students can
    1. submit electronic documents
    2. photos of their work, possibly in sequence
    3. a video demonstrating the functionality and/or design of their work
      • in this case, it is best to ask students to upload their video on YouTube as “unlisted” and send you a link
  5. Grade students in Moodle
  • A tutorial video on using Assignment Activity on Moodle is available here.

Points to Consider for Adapting Written Assignments

  • Isolation: Consider the complications and challenges students are experiencing while in self-isolation. Please take a look at this page on how to support students in completing their remaining assessments.
  • Communicate: Clearly, empathetically and often about what you are planning, you will better support your students facing unfamiliar ways.
  • Academic Integrity:
    • While plagiarism cannot be eliminated entirely in non-proctored assessments, there are different ways of either reducing possible plagiarism or checking for plagiarized work. For further details, you can view this video by Dr. Tricia Bertram Gallant of the International Center for Academic Integrity on Going Remote with Integrity
    • You might want to consider adding an academic integrity statement at the bottom of your assignment and communicate it to students at the outset.  An example is found below.

Academic Integrity Statement Example

By putting my name to this statement, I attest to the fact that it is my own work that has been submitted in this assessment and that it adheres to the rules and policies laid out at https://lassonde.yorku.ca/academic-integrity*.

Signed: ______________       Dated: _____________

*You might also want to (re)visit the York University Student Papers and Academic Research Kit (SPARK) –https://spark.library.yorku.ca/academic-integrity-what-is-academic-integrity/

How to Adapt Written Assignment

  1. Create an Assignment Activity on Moodle
  2. Set a specific due date / time for the assignment
  3. Ask students to submit their work either as an electronic document (PDF, DOCX) or scan/photo of their written work
  4. Students should submit their work via Moodle using the Assignment Activity you have created
  5. Grade students in Moodle
  • A tutorial video on using Assignment Activity on Moodle is available here.

Points to Consider for Adapting Written Assignments

  • Isolation: Consider the complications and challenges students are experiencing while in self-isolation.  Please take a look at this page on how to support students in completing their remaining assessments.
  • Communicate: Clearly, empathetically and often about what you are planning, you will better support your students facing unfamiliar ways.
  • Academic Integrity:
    • While plagiarism cannot be eliminated entirely in non-proctored assessments, there are different ways of either reducing possible plagiarism or checking for plagiarized work. For further details, you can view this video by Dr. Tricia Bertram Gallant of the International Center for Academic Integrity on Going Remote with Integrity
    • You might want to consider adding an academic integrity statement at the bottom of your assignment and communicate it to students at the outset.  An example is found below.

Academic Integrity Statement Example

By putting my name to this statement, I attest to the fact that it is my own work that has been submitted in this assessment and that it adheres to the rules and policies laid out at https://lassonde.yorku.ca/academic-integrity*.

Signed: ______________       Dated: _____________

*You might also want to (re)visit the York University Student Papers and Academic Research Kit (SPARK) –https://spark.library.yorku.ca/academic-integrity-what-is-academic-integrity/