On a meeting in the The Education Committee on February 22nd 2023, it was decided that the faculties starting from and including the summer exams of 2023 should anonymise exams as far as possible within the existing limits, and subsequently completely anonymise exams from and including the winter exams 2023/24. The anonymisation will happen via Digital Exam and eventually in WISEflow, when this new exam system is implemented.
The process of anonymisation is currently being carried out. Exams that are not included in the process this time are awaiting a decision as to whether it makes sense to anonymise them. This may include take-home assignment exams with a subsequent oral exam, or exams where the student has a specific supervisor.
There is a general wish across AU to make a joint decision as to whether these should generally be anonymised.
Moreover, there are exams that are currently submitted via Brightspace or sent directly by email to the teacher. It is not technically possible to anonymise these as anonymisation is only possible through the Digital Exam system.
To minimize any confusion, it has been decided to also anonymise exams at the winter 2022/23 reexams as well, wherever possible, as these exams are so close to the ordinary exams.
As a general rule at the winter 2022/23 reexams, all digital written exams and all take-home assignments where the set assignment is distributed via Digital Exam are anonymised. This will not include take-home assignments, where another exam element is included, e.g. take-home assignment + oral exam.
Please note: if the exam paper/assignment is submitted anywhere else than Digital Exam, it is not possible to anonymise it and the exam does therefore not meet the requirements of the decision to anonymise exams.
At the ordinary exams in the summer 2023, anonymisation will also include handwritten exams (analogue written exams) without another exam element. At the analogue written exams, it must be stated on the exam front page for the exam invigilation that the exam is anonymous. That way, the exam invigilation can help inform the students at the exam. At the summer 2023 exams, the study administration will notify the exam invigilation.
Please note: if the exam paper/assignment is submitted anywhere else than Digital Exam, it is not possible to anonymise it and the exam does therefore not meet the requirements of the decision to anonymise exams.
Re-exams winter 2022/23* | Ordinary exams summer 2023* |
Digital written exams that are submitted in Digital Exam. | Digital written exams that are submitted in Digital Exam. |
Take-home assignments, where the assignment is distributed and submitted via Digital Exam.** | Take-home assignments, where the assignment is distributed and submitted via Digital Exam.** |
Analogue written exams, where the exam papers are handwritten. |
* Exams with more exam elements, e.g. an oral defence or a take-home assignment, will not be anonymised. Exams, where the student has a supervisor, will not be anonymised.
** If the exam assignment is not distributed via Digital Exam, the exam will not be anonymised.
Both examiners and students will be able to see in the Digital Exam system whether an exam is anonymised. If the exam is anonymised, there will be a note of that under "exam information".
If the exam is anonymised, the students need only identify themselves by their exam number in their exam paper. The students can find their exam number on their student ID card in the bottom right corner. They can also find it on mystudies.au.dk
Teachers will only be able to see the exam number in Digital Exam. When assessing the exam, the examiners must match the exam number on the assignment to the number in Digital Exam.