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Exam Proctoring Center (EPC)

Instructions to Faculty for EPC Usage

Faculty Responsibilities:

  • It is the instructor's responsibility to provide qualified students with their accommodations as described in their ACCESS letters
    • The Exam Proctoring Center is one option for providing these accommodations.
    • Providing a place in your department may be appropriate particularly for advanced coursework.
  • The EPC cannot provide readers or scribes for foreign langauges or advanced technical courses.
    • Please contact us to verify if we can provide these services for your course if the student requires them.
  • Exams should be sent to the EPC using the Exam Proctoring Checklist at least 24 hours in advance of test time.
    See Exam Proctoring Checklist Instructions for information on using this online form

    Tests may also be

    • e-mailed to epc@uvm.edu
    • delivered by faculty to the EPC, Living/Learning Building A, Room A131.
    • faxed to 802-656-0739
    • brought by the student in a sealed envelope
    • Please do not use Campus Mail to send tests as ontime delivery is not assured

    Please advise the EPC of the delivery method if the test is not sent electronically.

  • Completed tests will be returned by an Exam Proctoring Center courier to the appropriate department unless other arrangements are explicitly specified on the Proctoring Checklist.

    • Exams completed after 3:30pm will be returned by courier the next morning.
    • The test will be returned in a sealed envelope and must be signed for by a department representative.
  • It is the student's responsibility to arrange all test accommodations.
    • Each term, before accepting any request for testing accommodation, the student must give you
      • an ACCESS letter authorizing test accommodations, or
      • documentation identifying them as an International or a TRiO student who is an English Language Learner
    • The student should request your permission for each test at the EPC no less than a week before the test date.
      • They will submit an Exam Scheduing Request to the EPC; you will receive a courtesy copy of their request via email.
        This does not serve as their request for your permission; they should discuss each test with you before scheduling.
      • ACCESS informs students that they must make their request for test accommodations in a timely manner or they may not be accommodated at the EPC.
        • If a student cannot be accommodated in the EPC, faculty must make alternate arrangements to provide the accommodation.

    Last modified January 11 2012 02:42 PM

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