Digital on-site examinations (e-examinations) at the University of Göttingen
E-Examinations
With the new E-Examination Room 2.0, we can now offer you an expanded total capacity per cohort of 202 workstations in two adjacent rooms. Of these, 108 are located in EPR I (MZG 1.116) and 94 in EPR II (ZHG 1.140). In addition—alongside a sufficient number of reserve seats—we provide a small number of separate workstations in both e-examination rooms for students with approved accommodations. These must be registered in advance.
As a result of these new usage options, the following framework conditions apply with immediate effect: examinations can take place on Mondays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and from Tuesday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.. To ensure thorough preparation and smooth operation, we can conduct a maximum of up to 6 examinations per day. We appreciate your understanding.
Availability can be viewed at any time online. Please take the stated capacity limits into account, even if the calendar appears to show available time slots.
For any further questions regarding digital on-site examinations (room bookings, design of examination content, integration of additional applications, etc.), please contact our service address: epruefungen@uni-goettingen.de.
As part of the “Göttingen Campus QPLUS – Quality Programme for Teaching and Learning” project at the university, supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture, the service for Digital Learning and Teaching of Student and Academic Services (previously the Department for Academic Programme Development and Quality Management) is establishing a central e-examination service which will be available to all disciplines.
The concept, organisation and procedures of electronically-based examinations are in line with those of normal paper-based examinations. Therefore these are also examinations held on-site, which are compiled by the responsible university tutors and then carried out and supervised according to their standards and taken by the examinees with the help of electronic input devices. In many cases the examinations allow complete automatic analysis and furthermore have additional advantages over conventional examinations.
Nevertheless, introducing electronically-based examining poses a number of challenges for the tutors. Therefore besides providing the infrastructure (rooms, input devices, examination system) the role of the e-examination service includes advice as well as technical and organisational support of the tutors in every phase of the examination process.
In parallel to the electronically-based examinations (summative e-assessment) the service for Digital Learning and Teaching will in cooperation with tutors expand the range of tests and exercises which are used to review the progress of students over the duration of the course (formative e-assessment).
In addition the resources of the e-examination service are also available for the realisation of grading tests (e.g. for foreign language courses) (diagnostic e-assessment).