Assessment of ongoing tests
What are ongoing tests?
According to the Examination Order, ongoing tests are an exam that is an integral part of the teaching. Ongoing tests may consist of various activities such as assignments, presentations, or hands-on exercises.
Ongoing tests are assessed together at the end of the semester. To ensure transparency for the students, it should be stated in the course description how much weight the individual test elements are given in the overall assessment (e.g. test A 20%, test B 20%, and test C 60%.)
Rules for the assessment of ongoing tests
It must not be a requirement that students must have passed or handed in one individual ongoing test in order to do the next. Students have the right to participate in all the ongoing tests regardless.
As soon as a student has participated in at least one of the ongoing tests, they are entitled to receive an academic assessment.
- Example 1: An ongoing test has the exam form Take-home assignment + Oral. The take-home assignment makes up 30% of the assessment and the oral exam 70%. The student does not hand in the take-home assignment but participates in the oral exam. In this case, the student must receive an academic assessment.
- Example 2: An ongoing test has the exam form Take-home assignment and consists of six equally weighted assignments. A student submits one of the assignments. In this case, the student must receive an academic assessment.
Administrative assessment of ongoing tests
As most ongoing tests have activities that take place outside of WISEflow, the study administration and the directors of studies at NAT and TECH have decided that the academic assessors will be responsible for the administrative assessment of ongoing tests. This is to ensure that the students receive the correct assessment.
In this form, you can see in which scenarios you should give students either FE (Left the exam) or U (Did not show up).
| Scenario | Description | Assessment | What exams? | Examples |
| Blank submission | The student has submitted blank at least once and has not participated in any other ongoing test activities.
| FE | All ongoing tests that include a hand-in assignment. Applies to both submissions in WISEflow and outside of WISEflow. | a) Ongoing test with the exam form is Take-home assignment + Written. Both must be submitted in WISEflow. The student submits blank the take-home assignment and fail to appear for the written on-site exam.
b) Ongoing test with the exam form Take-home assignment. The assessment is based on four submissions during the semester. The student submits a blank document on the first submission and does not submit the next three. |
| Attendance without submission (only written on-site exams) | The student participates in the written on-site exam but does not submit. The student has not participated in any other ongoing test activities. | FE | Ongoing tests that include a written on-site exam. | The exam form is Take-home assignment + Written. Both must be submitted in WISEflow. The student does not hand in the take-home assignment. The student participates in the written on-site exam but fails to submit their assignment before the deadline.
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| No-show (exam with submission in WISEflow) | The student has not participated in any of the ongoing test activities and has not submitted in WISEflow. | U | All ongoing tests with at least one required submission in WISEflow. | Ongoing test with the exam form Take-home assignment + Take-home assignment. The first assignment must be submitted outside WISEflow, the second assignment must be submitted in WISEflow. The student does not submit either of the two assignments. |
No-show (exam without submission in WISEflow)
| The student has not participated in any of the ongoing test activities. | U | All ongoing tests where there is no submission in WISEflow. | Ongoing test with the exam form Take-home assignment. The assessment is based on four oral presentations that weigh 40%, and four assignments that weigh 60%. The student does not give any of the presentations and does not hand in any of the assignments. |
If you are in doubt about how a student should be assessed in connection with an ongoing exam, please contact your programme coordinator at:
- uk.natafv.nat-tech@au.dk (Natural Sciences + Agrobiology, Molecular Nutrition and Food Technology and AU Viborg at Technical Sciences)
- uk.eng.nat-tech@au.dk (engineering programmes at Technical Sciences)
You can find the rules for administrative assessment of other types of exams on the guidance page for WISEflow under "Submit an administrative assessment > Description of administrative assessments".
Specific information about written on-site exams
If you are the course coordinator for an ongoing exam that includes a written on-site exam, you will be sent the list of no-shows no later than 3 workdays after the exam.
Blank submissions in WISEflow
In WISEflow, you can see if a student has submitted blank in the participant overview when you open the flow.
On the old flow page, blank submissions are marked with the following icon:
On the new flow page, the student says "Blank" under the column "Submission":
If you open the answer in the assessment tool, it also says the following:
Process for winter exams 2025/26
In connection with the winter exams 2025/26, the study administration, in collaboration with the directors of studies and the deputy heads of department for the engineering programmes, has prepared a list of which exams are considered ongoing tests.
All course coordinators with an ongoing exam have been informed of this by email from the study administration.
It is yet to be decided what the process will be for the next exam periods.