Online Exams your questions
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If you have had issues accessing Blackboard (with the system being slow), please try the following:
If you are still getting error messages, please send a screenshot of this by logging a ticket with the DTS team. They will come back to you as soon as possible to resolve this issue.
Or alternatively call 0118 378 7049 (for HBS students please call +44 (0) 118 378 4007) and selection Option 3 and a member of the team will help you with this.
A number of students may qualify for special examination arrangements, and these will be set up for those who are registered with the Disability Advisory service (DAS). These can include extra time or other reasonable adjustments. If you are not registered with DAS and think you may be eligible for special arrangements for medical or other reasons, please contact the DAS straight away - Telephone 0118 378 4202 or email disability@reading.ac.uk. You will not be given extra time if you are not registered with DAS.
There is no need to contact us to ask if extra time has been added to your exam, and please note the following:
For any standard 8-hour online exams, as you have been given 8 hours to complete your exam, this will include any extra time or rest breaks you might need. Extra time will not be added to your 8-hour window and your submission deadline will still be at 17:00 hrs.
For timed exams (Blackboard tests, Gradescope) or fixed start/finish exams, any rest breaks and special timing arrangements have been included in the time allowed for you to complete the exam, if you are registered with the Disability Advisory Service (DAS). Please take care to submit your work before your given submission deadline.
You are responsible for ensuring that you have uploaded the right document to the correct exam submission point, and for ensuring that your work has been uploaded successfully by the stated deadline for that exam.
How you check what you have submitted will depend on the assessment tool used. For details, please see Checking that your submission was successful.
If you are concerned that a submission may not have uploaded correctly, and submission deadline has not passed:
email your work to online-exam@reading.ac.uk before the deadline;
please attach your work as a Word file or PDF. Do NOT provide a link to a file as we are unable to process via this method.
please use the following text in your subject line and ensure you include your module code so that we can prioritise your submission: “Submission of online exam {module code}”.
We will upload your work for marking if this has been sent to us before the deadline and in the correct format.