Scheduling your online exam in the ILIAS exam evironment
- If you would like to conduct an online exam, please contact the person responsible for exam planning in your department before.
- In ZEuS, change the exam format of the scheduled exam date to the desired format, either "Live Online Exam" or "Take Home Exam," for the announcement to the students. If your department centrally coordinates exams, or if you don't have the rights to manage exams in ZEuS, please first contact the person responsible for curriculum planning in your department. If you are responsible and would like to make an ad-hoc-inquiry for an online exam, please use the corresponding form you can find on the pages mentioned under paragraph 3.
- If you have decided for a "Live Online Exam", you have three options: You can write your online exam with Chromebooks on campus, conduct an online exam with bwLehrpool in the university's PC labs, or have students write the exam on their own laptops in a bring-your-own-device exam on campus. In case of a "Take Home Exam" you will write an unproctored off-campus online exam.
- As soon as you receive information from the ILIAS-exams team about your ILIAS-exam course, enter this information in ZEuS to inform the students.
- The e-learning team will be happy to answer any questions you may have.
Further information and detailed instructions on conducting online exams can also be found under the following link:
Scenario A -> online test (on-campus & off-campus)
The implementation of this scenario is done with the "Test" tool in ILIAS. It provides various question types for your exam, such as multiple-choice, free text, ordering questions, gapped texts, and more. In this scenario, students will need a reliable internet connection throughout the exam.
- The ILIAS team will provide you with a template on the ILIAS exam platform, which includes the essential basic settings.
- You add the exam participants and make your individual settings (password for the exam, availability period, duration, randomisation of questions, etc.).
- You create the exam questions in which you can incorporate various media.
- For most question types, ILIAS offers automatic evaluation. However, the exam administrators must review this evaluation - manual re-evaluation is possible.
- For questions that are automatically evaluated by ILIAS, you determine the point allocation when creating the question. Negative points are permitted within an MC (multiple choice) question, but the final result of a question must never be less than 0 points, i.e. carrying negative points over questions is not permitted. Alternatively, for MC questions, there is the option to award points only when all correct answers are selected. However, this disadvantages students who correctly select two out of three options, as they would receive no points instead of the possible two.
Scenario B -> take-home exam (off-campus)
The specific implementation is done with the "Übung" tool in ILIAS. The advantage of this scenario is that the actual exam is conducted offline, and no long-term dependence on a good internet connection is required for the students. An internet connection is only needed at the beginning and end of the exam.
Please note: A take-home exam without supervision is no longer considered an exam in terms of the applicable examination law.
- The ILIAS team will provide you with a template containing the essential basic settings in the ILIAS exam environment.
- You will add the exam participants and make your individual settings (password for the exam, availability period, submission deadline, etc.).
- You will provide one (or more) exam document(s) with instructions for the tasks.
- You determine how the results should be uploaded. They can be either computer-based tasks, or handwritten tasks, that are photographed and uploaded as a file.