Mid-Term & Final Exam Guidance

Proctored Exam Guidance

In some on-line terms, you will take a three hour, closed book, proctored mid-term. In others, this proctored exam will be your final exam given during final exam week. You will need to arrange for all proctored exams yourself at your location. Do so early in the course. Specific dates are shown in the syllabus; the exam must be taken during this period. You will receive separate guidance on this issue, but make sure you bring your UMUC Student ID and at least one, preferably two picture IDs with you to the exam site.

Take Home Exam Guidance

Your other major exam in my DE courses will be a take-home, open-book exam (accessed on-line in the Study Group Area of our WebTycho classroom) either during mid-term or final exam week (depending upon the term) as shown in the syllabus. You will have 48 hours to complete AND return your exam from the time I post it. Your response is to be placed in your assignment folder in WebTycho. The start and stop time for this 48 hour period will typically fall on a weekend.

Responses that are more than one file should be placed into a single folder and zipped using WinZip or similar compression utility that results in a .zip extension. The zipped folder is then to be placed in the Assignment turn-in area of WebTycho by the appointed time. If for any reason we encounter difficulty with accessing WebTycho, we will use email and email attachments as our backup mode.

If you are unable to take the exam on the agreed date, you must notify me IN ADVANCE of the exam date and provide me with documented evidence of a duty, health, or other bona fide emergency. Upon confirmation, separate special arrangements will be made for you to take a different exam.

If a you are unable to access WebTycho to retrieve your the exam, you must contact me within six hours of the exam start time by phone or fax to request that the exam be sent to you by e-mail.

Although the exam is Open Book and Notes, it is not to be discussed with any person until after the end of the term. It seems inevitable in our mobile environment that someone will be forced to take a make-up exam, so please keep the exam material confidential.

Additionally, you should be aware that I always apply more stringent evaluation criteria to take-home exams. In addition to substantive excellence, I require higher standards of English usage and grammar and, where appropriate, diagrams that are technically without error.

Students who fail to take an exam and do not notify me of his or her inability to do so will receive a grade of "F-" for the exam.