Dear teachers,
I’m Jitka Daňková from the Information System.
Due to the rector’s vacation
and the cancelation of the contact teaching, many of you
wonder how to test students in this situation.
Common concern
is the replacement of classic oral exams.
A situation,
where you need to see
student's prompt reaction, hear their arguments
and see that they really understands the subject.
You don’t have to lose this personal contact with the student,
you can put such exam into practice online.
Let's see
how you can organize a videoconference for oral exam.
At first,
please, communicate with your students.
Tell them
how you envision the exam
and give them a chance to comment on that.
Find out in advance
how many students are having problems
with Internet connection,
or don’t own a smartphone or laptop,
or a web camera and microphone.
Solve these cases individually,
there won't be many.
You can discuss the form of exam with students
through the discussion group in IS.
Then you have to set the time of the exam.
For example, the IS have application Examination,
through which you can set exam times
that suit you,
and let students to sign in.
However if you're used to communicating with students differently,
do what suits you the best.
Practically you just need to know
student's UČO that you have to enter
in a videoconference at what time
so you can connect and do the examination.
Teachers who have already tried such testing
recommend having time reserves between the individual exams,
in the case of prolonged testing
or if the student had technical problems.
And now to the testing.
We will show the example using MS Teams,
which is available at the University
and connected to the lists of students and teachers.
You can also try different tools,
but the main thing is
that students know
where to connect.
In the Information system, open the page
where you give grades to students.
Then open the MS Teams.
Through the IS examination dates
or otherwise, you should already know the UČO of the student
you are about to test.
Navigate to the Calls section
and select Call.
This is where you can enter the student's UČO.
The student will appear and you can call them.
The course of the exam, questions
and interview is then up to you.
Keep in mind
that this is a new experience for students as well.
Even if they are not physically in front of you,
keep in mind that they are
nervous and may have stage-fright.
Kind and helpful approach will cheer them up and relax the atmosphere.
At the end tell the student
what grade they got
and do not forget to mark it in the IS.
If this form of testing
is too new for you,
call me or my colleagues
who have their phone number listed here
and we can call for the first time together.
Some teachers try their exam with their colleagues.