Information for teaching staff | General information

You can schedule an e-exam roughly two semesters in advance by sending an email to e-pruefungen@uni-wuppertal.de. As a rule, booking opens on 1 April for the following winter semester and on 1 October for the following summer semester.

Since popular exam days – especially in the first two weeks of the semester break – fill up quickly, we recommend reserving the required rooms and dates as early as possible. Slots are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

Hybrid exam scenarios, in which part of the exam is conducted digitally and part on paper, are generally possible in the @uni format.

Please note, however, that the size of the exam desks is limited and allows only minimal additional materials. We therefore recommend arranging this with us at an early stage to ensure smooth conduct of the exam.

Generally, subject-specific additional software can be used as part of your e-exam. Whether your intended scenario can be implemented depends on several factors, such as the licence conditions of the software and its compatibility with our systems. In addition to subject-specific software such as JupyterLab, it is also possible to use “soft” tools, for example a digital scientific calculator, in the e-exam rooms.

Feel free to contact us to review existing solutions or to develop an individual solution together.

Compensations for disadvantage are approved by the responsible examinations committee. The examinees concerned must then independently inform their examiners about the type and scope of the compensation granted.

To ensure that necessary adjustments (e.g. extra time, separate exam room – L.11.29) can be taken into account for e-exams, these must be reported to us by email no later than one week before the exam. Please include the examinee’s full name and the type of compensation granted.

Once your catalogue has been finalised and the desired exam questions have been compiled into a template, the e-exam team performs a random functionality check of your questions before transferring the template to LPLUS TestStudio and notifying you by email.

In TestStudio, you can then thoroughly test your exam in the exam environment using the licence test function and make any necessary changes in LTS Editor. The licence test can be carried out from your own workstation and is not tied to a specific location.

If any changes are required after testing your exam in LPLUS TestStudio, you may implement them in your catalogue and contact the e-exam team to request a renewed transfer. This is possible up to 24 hours before the start of your exam.

• Special case: For e-exams scheduled on a Monday, the 24-hour deadline ends on the preceding Friday.

Please note that no changes can be made after this deadline has passed.

If the actual number of registrations differs significantly from the estimate you provided at the time of booking, please inform us immediately so that room capacities can be adjusted.

This applies both to lower numbers – in which case capacities can be reallocated – and, in particular, to higher numbers.

For both the e-exam@uni and e-exam@home formats, no separate login credentials are required. At the start of the exam, examinees log into the exam system via a link using their full name and matriculation number.

For every e-exam, a member of the e-exam team is present to accompany the process and ensure that all examinees are admitted to the exam smoothly and simultaneously.

In LPLUS, you can provide your students with various integrated tools within the exam via a toolbar at the top of the screen. These include a basic calculator (for simple arithmetic) and a digital notepad.

Beyond this, additional aids can be authorised by you, just as in a paper-based exam, and may be brought by students to their exam desk.

Immediately after the successful conduct of your e-exam, the exam results are available as the basis for assessment – there are no waiting times.

The exam can be assessment in the LPLUS system via the review interface by one or more examiners, provided they have the appropriate access rights. The resulting grades can then be exported from the system and, if required, submitted to the Central Examinations Office (ZPA).

For detailed step-by-step instructions, please refer to our Moodle course “E-Prüfungen | Einführung LPLUS”.

Reporting the results of your e-exam to the ZPA or publishing them via the examiner function (“Prüfendenfunktion”) in StudiLöwe is your responsibility. The role of the e-exam team ends once the results leave the LPLUS system.

There is no direct interface between the exam software and the campus management system. However, after successful completion and assessment, LPLUS provides a variety of report types that allow you to export, process, and forward the results as needed.

You can offer inspection for your e-exam either decentrally – in your own office or digitally – or centrally in our e-exam rooms. For more information on the procedure, please visit our subpage on exam inspection.

The e-exam team handles the archiving of all results from your e-exams for the duration of the official retention period on a specially secured archive server with strictly limited access rights. Archiving is always carried out with a time delay to ensure that any changes made as part of exam inspections, for example, are also recorded.

Please note that any changes made by you outside the LPLUS exam system are not archived by us and therefore remain your responsibility.