EXAM – Instruc­tions for exam visitors

Instruc­tions for visit­ing Karelia UAS EXAM room

EXAM visit means that you take your own university’s exam in another university’s EXAM room. Before booking a time for your exam in another univer­sity, please check the rules and regu­la­tions of that univer­sity as well as the opening hours and how to access the EXAM room.

Use of the Exam-room for elec­tronic exams during the coro­n­avirus pandemic:

There are hand sani­tiz­ers avail­able in the room. Every person enter­ing and exiting the Exam-room must use the hand sanitizer.There are clean­ers avail­able in the EXAM room for wiping the keyboard, the mouse and the desktop.
Remem­ber to clean your spot before and after the exam!
Remem­ber the main­tain adequate social distances in the EXAM room!
Follow the guide­lines for cough­ing by the Finnish Insti­tute for Health and Welfare! Cover your mouth and nose with a dispos­able hand­ker­chief when cough­ing or sneez­ing. Imme­di­ately put the used hand­ker­chief in the rubbish bin. If you do not have a hand­ker­chief, cough or sneeze onto the upper part of the sleeve, not into your hands, as the virus may be spread onto the keyboard or onto the mouse from your hands. There are hand­ker­chiefs avail­able in the Exam-room next to the hand sani­tizer bottles.
It is forbid­den to enter campus premises if you are sick! 
If you become sick, cancel your exam in the EXAM-system.

Please consider the follow­ing issues when visit­ing Karelia UAS EXAM room:

  • Use the user­name and pass­word of your own univer­sity account when enrolling for an exam and booking an exam time at the EXAM system of your own university.
  • There is no inter­net access in Karelia UAS Exam room; you can only access the EXAM system and use the follow­ing programs during the exam: Acrobat Reader, Calcu­la­tor, Excel, Irfan­View, Notepad++, Power­Point, TI-Nspire CX CAS, VLC, Word. If you need any other programs in the exam, you cannot take the exam at Karelia UAS EXAM room.
  • Karelia UAS EXAM room (E226) is located on Tikkarinne campus, Tikkarinne 9, build­ing E. The EXAM room is located on the first floor (street level) next to the library.
  • The EXAM room is open for exam visits from Monday to Friday at 8-17.
  • NOTE! You can find unusual opening hours on the home­page of the EXAM guide.
  • The campus main doors are open from Monday to Thurs­day at 7.30-16.30 and on Friday at 7.30 – 15.30.
  • You do not need an access key to enter the EXAM room. The elec­tric lock on the EXAM room door opens five minutes before each exam time (e.g. at 8.55 when your exam starts at 9.00 or at 13.55 when your exam starts at 14.00) and is open for 15 minutes. Make sure you access the EXAM room on time since you cannot enter the EXAM room after the door has been locked.
  • Login infor­ma­tion for EXAM room comput­ers is avail­able on the computer desk. Use your own university’s user­name and pass­word when logging into the EXAM system.
  • There is real-time and record­ing camera surveil­lance in the EXAM room. When you book an exam time for Karelia UAS EXAM room, you accept the terms of use of Karelia UAS EXAM system.
  • Outer­wear and other personal belong­ings need to be left in a locker outside the EXAM room. The key to the locker can be taken into the EXAM room. Only the key and your ID with a photo can be taken into the EXAM room.
  • If you have any prob­lems with the exam, please contact the EXAM support of your own univer­sity or your examiner.
  • If you have any prob­lems related to logging into the computer in the EXAM room, please contact Karelia UAS Helpdesk: [email protected] or Karelia UAS EXAM support [email protected].

More infor­ma­tion: EXAM Guide