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Understanding End of Unit Assessments and Exams

While exams may still be suitable for some courses, many units now offer alternative methods to showcase your learning through real-world applications. Undergraduate and postgraduate students (excluding HDR students) may take timed End-of-Unit Assessments (EoUA), which simulate workplace challenges and standards. This change will commence from Trimester/Semester 1 2023.

Most end of unit assessments and exams will be delivered through your CloudDeakin unit site. Your unit site will contain full details of your end of unit assessment and your exams. StudentConnect will have details of your exam timetable.

Access plan adjustments remain in place and will be applied to exams where applicable.

End of unit assessments

End of unit assessments are unsupervised and can be held under the following formats:

A timed assessment
A timed assessment available for a 24 hour window
An assessment which you will download to work on, then return to the site to upload it.

Check your unit site for full details.

Types of EoUA

Type of EoUA	How it works	Examples
Written	You’re asked to use text to communicate your knowledge, skill or understanding of a topic. It is completed online. At a set release time, you’ll be given the assessment instructions and will complete the assessment by a set deadline.	Newspaper article, report for a community advocacy group, project plan, design brief, case study analysis
Oral	You’re asked to use the spoken word to communicate your knowledge, skill or understanding of a topic. It is completed at a campus or other site, or online. At a set release time, you’ll be given the assessment instructions and will present or provide your oral response by a set deadline.	A response to questions about your work, a group presentation, a reflection in response to a skill/question/experience, participating in a debate or discussion forum, a speech given to a community advocacy group
Performance	You’re asked to present, perform or interact with an assessor(s) live in real-time (synchronously) or recorded. It is completed at a campus or other site, or online. Assessors can be external to Deakin; for example, an industry expert	Completing an interview, undertaking a conversation or defence (viva voce) of your work with an assessor, participating in a group presentation, performing a creative work, musical performance
Practical	You’re asked to perform a task or produce a product live in real-time (synchronously) or recorded. It is completed at a campus or other site, or online. Assessors can be external to Deakin; for example, an industry expert.	Completing a simulated task, demonstrating performing a procedure, demonstrating a skill on placement, completing a laboratory practical

Exam information

All exams will be supervised and subject to usual exam conditions:

Check your exam timetable in StudentConnect carefully.
You can set or change your location for time zone purposes by completing the Nominate or change of exam location form. Please check the exam important dates below. No further changes will be possible after this date. Updating this information is important for the timing of your exam.
Carefully read the details included in your unit site for your exam.
Complete the practice 'test your system' exam.

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Exam location

Information on campus based and online exams and how to change your location.
Online exam technical support

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Supervised online exams

Information on preparing for your supervised exam.
Exam preparation

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Last updated: February 24, 2023 (3:49pm)

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