Online exams are not expected to present issues for students or staff this year, the University of Otago says. The university decided in consultation with the Otago University Students’ Association that all full-year and second semester final written exams and assessments would be held online. Last year showed that most students dealt very well with online exams with overall results very similar to the previous year, she said. Online exams last year did not have a negative effect on results, she said. Discounting the grade bump applied to Semester One 2020 online exams, students in those exams on average performed better than equivalent cohorts had in physical exams in 2019, Prof Cragg said.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 03, 2021 16:33 UTC