First Year Course Representatives Oriented Ahead of the Online Mid-Semester Exams Beginning February 26

First Year students have been warned against impersonation as the mid-semester examination begins on February 26, 2024.

Director of the KNUST E-Learning Center, Professor Eric Appau Asante, advises students to avoid giving out their identification cards or credentials to colleagues to sit in and take the exams on their behalf.

Such practices can easily be detected by the system during biometric verification, vetted security cameras and the usage of credentials.

This is the first-graded examination to be taken by students in level 100 which is mostly accompanied by nervousness.

Speaking to first year course representatives of the 6 colleges ahead of the mid-semester examination, Professor Asante, said the exams will be conducted in a highly regulated environment with all avenues for examination malpractices sealed.

“Our version of online exam is not that you will be doing it on your phone or room. There are locations where you will go and sit under supervision and take the exam. Spaces will not be created for you to copy. You cannot enter with your phones,” he said.

The mid-semester exams is a computer-based exams which disallows access to the internet or the use of Chat GPT.

The course reps are to relay to course mates the scheduled dates, reporting times and specific materials needed for the exams. Registrar of the E-Learning Centre, Christopher Addo, is directing students to search for the venues of the exams ahead of time.

Christopher Addo also advises students to try out their username and password indicated on their admission letters and take the self-paced exam on the virtual classroom platform. This will ensure the efficacy of the username and easy log in into the virtual exams room.

It will allow time to correct any hitches with the username before the start of the exams. “Once you are successful in doing it, on that day your username and password will work. If you don’t do it, we won’t hold you to it.

On that day you will be frustrated. Everybody starts and you have not tried before. Are you now going to try? Remember you have only one hour for the exam. The computer is also not your personal machine. Imagine the frustration,” he said. /span>

Published:21st February 2024 Source: KNUST E-Learning Centre