ASSA Online Exams: A Drama, a Comedy, a Thriller

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a number of changes globally and one such change was the way that ASSA conducted the first semester exams of 2020. This presentation will provide information to the audience on these exams. The presentation will include:

Details of what the online exam session actually looked like. Including details of what online exams entail and what was expected of students (there were requirements of mirrors and cameras)
Details of some of the issues experienced and learnings from writing online exams
Preparations and meetings that went into deciding how to handle these exams
A summary of the results of the survey that went out to students prior to the exam
Some information on the marking process, details on how this differed to previous sessions and additional investigations done to highlight cheating and to cater for IT issues.
A summary of the results and a comparison to previous sessions
Student feedback highlighting good and bad experiences.