Published 8 March 2021 Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Covid-19 has forced us to find alternatives to our traditional exam methods, alternatives that work digitally and on remote. The most common ways to deal with this have been to try to squeeze the traditional methods into a digital format, reduce the time available and add remote “surveillance” of the students. These alternatives have worked

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/digital-open-book-exam-option-covid-spring - 2025-04-17

By bjorn [dot] fritz [at] kultur [dot] lu [dot] se (Björn Fritz) - published 8 March 2021 As long as we need to examination remotley, we will need to do it in partly new ways. There are no methods for "translating" an examination on campus into the same examination done at home, and different forms of examination handle the adjustments needed differently. Photo by pan xiaozhen on Unsplash Home exa

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Published 8 March 2021 In times when the majority of students need to take exams in an online environment, there are many teachers who wish to monitor the exam via camera surveillance in Zoom. There are many different ways to handle this, Karin Bergman from the department of economics has written about how she approaches this. Foto: Patrick on Unsplash We have used Zoom monitoring in a couple of e

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Published 8 March 2021 Photo by Lukas Blazek on Unsplash As a Swedish university, Lund University needs to ensure that students with disabilities find themselves in a comparable situation with other students. Course coordinators or examiners may need to make adjustments so that the digital teaching and examination is accessible to students with a disability. Some students may have a disability tha

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Published 4 March 2021 In a master’s course in commercial theory where the regular exam was conducted in writing in a physical classroom before the pandemic, the re-examinations were conducted orally via Zoom Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash The course had about 20 students and to emulate the design of the physical exam, the exam was performed in two parts. The students were given diff

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By anna [dot] lothman [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Löthman) - published 4 March 2021 Picture: Unsplash “I’m committed to the students and their education and I want to make the best I can with the help of the tools we have at our disposal”, says Igor Martins, teacher at School of Economics and Management, Lund University. Since Igor is such a popular teacher he was asked to share his best tips

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/tips-using-digital-tools-your-course-teacher-year - 2025-04-17

Published 8 March 2021 At the School of Economics, Per Jochumzen teaches courses on mathematics and microeconomics. He believes that there are major challenges around how to handle cheating in areas where students’ knowledge cannot be tested through, for example, essays. Peter writes: In my opinion, the biggest challenge with home exams is to prevent cheating. This especially applies to situations

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/creating-conditions-avoid-cheating - 2025-04-17

Published 4 March 2021 When using quizzes you might want to adjust the points to make them better match what the student deserve. Photo by Ben White on Unsplash Inflexibility Many of us are using the quiz function in Canvas, both for allowing students to practice and for exams. Canvas uses a rather inflexible way of automatically grading the answers in most cases – either the answers are completel

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/using-quizzes-give-your-students-points-they-deserve - 2025-04-17

Published 4 March 2021 During the pandemic, when the majority of students needed to take exams in an online environment, many teachers wished to monitor the exam via camera surveillance in Zoom. This may only be needed at certain occasions in the future, and there are many different ways to handle this. Here, Karin Bergman from the Department of Economics, has written about how they did it during

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/heres-what-we-did-monitoring-zoom-0 - 2025-04-17

By bjorn [dot] fritz [at] kultur [dot] lu [dot] se (Björn Fritz) - published 4 March 2021 As long as we need to examine remotely, we will need to examine in partly new ways. There are no methods for "translating" an on-campus examination into an identical remote examination, but rather, different forms of examination cope with the transition to varying degrees. Photo by pan xiaozhen on Unsplash Ex

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/better-course-formative-examination - 2025-04-17

Published 4 March 2021 Many teachers would probably agree that it is an art to write good multiple choice questions. Multiple Choice Questions or MCQ are so-called closed questions, where the answering person gets to choose from a number of given answer options instead of formulating an answer themselves. Photo by Dan Asaki on Unsplash Text by Ann-Catrin Johansson, LTH  MCQ When creating your mult

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Published 4 March 2021 Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash The pandemic has made us test alternatives to our traditional exam methods, alternatives that work digitally and on remote. Some of these alternatives are worth keeping also when we head back to traditional, on campus, teaching. One thing we have learned the past years is that remote surveillance is problematic (no guarantee it works 100%)

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/digital-open-book-exam-flexible-option - 2025-04-17

Published 4 March 2021 Hans Knutsson, senior lecturer in business economy at EHL, describes the experiences he and his colleagues have had with online exams and the use of Canvas New Quizzes. Photo by Honey Yanibel Minaya Cruz on Unsplash  At the School of Economics, where I work as a senior lecturer in business administration, we have spent the last two years working on switching platforms to Can

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/quizzes-question-banks-and-random-draws - 2025-04-17

Published 4 August 2020 What is Zoom-bombing and how can you protect yourself? Photo by Ryan Quintal on Unsplash As the e-meeting tool, Zoom, was becoming more frequently used, it was also subject to more and more infringements. Visits from unauthorised guests who disturb meetings by sharing unpleasant pictures or writing inappropriate texts in the chat are called Zoom-bombing. As a lecturer at Lu

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Published 4 August 2020 On courses where students often work in groups and need to meet online, using Zoom and its breakout rooms may seem cumbersome, in which case you may use Teams – an alternative to Zoom that is integrated into the Canvas learning platform. At the Faculty of Science’s Department of Biology, Christoffer Johansson is a lecturer on a course where students often work in groups. Af

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By nicolette [dot] karst [at] ahu [dot] lu [dot] se (Nicolette Karst) - published 27 April 2021 Take your chance to attend this online conference on the use of image and sound for learning in higher education. Free for LU staff! Managing and innovating video-based services in Higher Education The Media & Learning Association organizes a conference twice a year. The conference is aimed for universi

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Published 4 August 2020 Are you unsure about the rules concerning remote exams? Here you will find information, tips and advice on the rules that apply. General information  On the Staff Pages, you will find information on:  Remote exams Personal data and data protection in connection with remote exams Students in need of learning support Archiving in connection with digital exams How other univer

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/lecturers-exam-anxiety - 2025-04-17

Published 5 August 2020 Studying at university can be quite different from many students’ expectations if all teaching is digital. Being a new student in a solely digital learning environment can make it challenging to get to know other students and lecturers, to be part of a social context and to feel a sense of belonging to Lund University, which comes more naturally on campus. There is not a wo

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/interactivity-communication-and-engagement-online-courses - 2025-04-17

Published 6 August 2020 Below, Sinikka Neuhaus reflects on her experiences of the course The Teacher and School (7.5 credits), which is the first of eight core courses in educational sciences within the extensive cohesive subject teacher training programme at Lund University. Although the students had already studied 45 credits in their respective subjects, this was the first time that all 75 prog

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/educational-dilemmas-subject-teacher-training-programme-when-switching-remote-teaching - 2025-04-17

Published 7 September 2021 Photo by M.Accelertor on Unsplash It is not necessarily the students who need to join a lecture via Zoom; sometimes the lecturer is the one taking part remotely. This is very practical for guest lecturers who are very far away and can thereby avoid a long trip. It also opens up opportunities for simple collaborations between higher education institutions. The solution wi

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/guest-lecturers-good-opportunity-hybrid-teaching - 2025-04-17