UNISA Essential tips for Online Examinations

UNISA Essential tips for Online Examinations

UNISA News- To all UNISA Exam students who will be writing examinations, we have compiled some essential tips to help you succeed in the examinations ahead.  See below guides for the various types of examinations and some other rules and information you might need.

Student guides

• Navigating the myExams Portal
• Take-Home/File Upload Exam on Assignment Activity on myExams
• Randomised MCQ and/or Paragraph Examination on Quiz Activity on myExams

Invigilation

• Examination May/June 2022 Invigilated and Proctored Modules [PDF]
• Proctoring Tools: Moodle Proctoring [PDF]
• Proctoring Tools: Invigilator App [PDF]
• Proctoring Tools: IRIS [PDF]
• myModules Profile Photo [PDF]
• Find out what proctoring tool is used in your exam

Student Exam Webinar Training Schedule

• Download schedule [PDF]

Special examination arrangements

• Students with special needs, mobility or physical disabilities [PDF]

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Examination rules

• Examination rules for online examinations [PDF]

MOOC Basic Skills for Online Assessments (myExams)

• Course: Basic Skills for Online Exams (unisa.ac.za)

Student Exam Video Tutorial

• ·         Academic Dishonesty
• ·         myExams – How to complete a MCQ assessment
• ·         myExams – How to complete a Take-Home assessment
• ·         myExams – Exam dos and don’ts 2022
• ·         myExams – Finding your exam from myExams
• ·         myExams – Types of cheating
• ·         Assessment: Essay Questions
• ·         Assessment: Multiple Choice Questions

Find some additional technical resources below:

• Dealing with technical challenges uploading your examination papers
• How to scan, prepare handwritten examination answers for upload on myUnisa or myExams
• How to reduce the file size or compress a PDF
• How to scan & prepare handwritten exam answers using Microsoft Office Lens_Android
• How to scan & prepare handwritten exam answers using Microsoft Office Lens_iOS
• Procedure to reset your myUnisa password
• About corrupt files

Also note that you must comply with important rules around plagiarism and cheating.

• Plagiarism during the examinations
• Unisa students – Take action against contract cheating
• Unisa has a zero tolerance for any form of dishonesty or cheating activity related to exams

Contact information

• Get help during the examinations by contacting the Student Communication Service Centre
• Additional measures at the Unisa Student Communication Service Centre to deal with high volumes

Student Exam Guide 05: MCQ (Quiz) Assessment