Examiner FAQs

Assessment Services will set the exam time according to the examinations timetable. They will also allocate extra time for students who meet the requirements for special conditions. Students can find out their exam times from the instructions on the University website.

Student Disability Services advise teaching staff of any students in their courses with approved special conditions. Please refer to the settings for granting extra time for attempting a Canvas Quiz or an Inspera test.

Please visit the page on using Inspera; it includes pedagogical guidelines and how to prepare students. Note also that there is an Inspera Online Assessments Hub for staff, along with a page of frequently asked questions.

Please visit the page called Inspera exam process for teachers.

Assessment Services will create the link to the exam in your Canvas course, one day beforehand and will inform the examiner/nominated contact once this has been done. If there are any issues please email results@auckland.ac.nz

Please visit the Information for Inspera graders.

Please email results@auckland.ac.nz. This issue may arise from incomplete course nominations.

Please familiarise yourself with the process for students to apply for an alternative time or location, or an aegrotat.

Visit: Special conditions and aegrotats.

Please review the process for exam recounts.

The Copyright Act (section 49) allows anything to be copied for examination purposes. Examinations include any work which counts towards a student’s final grade in a course. This can involve setting questions, communicating the questions to candidates, or answering questions. For example, if staff would like to use images from a journal article for their assessment questions, this will not infringe copyright.

The exception does not allow the work to subsequently be made publicly available. For example, a thesis will need to be checked for copyright compliance before being uploaded into the University’s research repository.

Read detailed guidelines on the University’s copyright page.

Sharing should be actively discouraged, however, there are ways to minimise and/or mitigate posting/sharing of questions and answers. If any assessment questions have been shared, they should be easily detectable if you have designed your assessment questions by asking students to:

• Use reflective writing techniques to substantiate, support and/or personalise academic arguments.
• Use critical thinking skills to analyse ideas with reference to sources, explanations, evidence, examples and interpretations of these.
• Analyse, compare and contrast solutions to problems.
• Diagnose and/or explain the methodology used.

You may wish to consider reminding your students of the University Code of Conduct.

The normal policy and processes for academic misconduct—as per the Student Academic Conduct Statute—applies to exams conducted on-campus or online. Examiners or their delegates can submit an academic integrity breach allegation report to the Academic Quality Office via the Academic Integrity Breach Reporting Form.

If a student contacts their lecturer with any query, they should be directed to the Contact Centre: studentinfo@auckland.ac.nz or call Auckland: 09 373 7513, New Zealand: 0800 61 62 63, or International: +64 9 373 7513.

The use of specialised and/or additional software must be approved by the Associate Dean (Learning & Teaching or Academic) before writing the assessment tasks.