2024-2025 Student Handbook

correctly in the remote environment. By completing the mock exam process, there will be time to identify and resolve issues prior to the date of the actual midterm or final examination.

B. Students may have access to beverages in clear containers only. For remote proctored exams taken in private locations, food or food related products (i.e. gum, candy, mints) are permitted but must not be in packaging.

C. Students in remote-proctored exams may take quick breaks as necessary. Students taking a quick break, must say out loud that this is what they are doing. This will help in excluding the quick break from any consideration of irregularities. D. Remote exam takers who experience a technical problem with Examsoft, should contact the ExamTaker Support Line: 866-429-8889 or 954-429-8889. If the issue is not resolved by contacting Examsoft, remote exam takers should contact the Assistant Dean of Academic Services (lcove@suffolk.edu, 617-573-8160) or the Dean of Law Student Affairs Office (LawDeanOfStudents@suffolk.edu, 617-573-8157)

E. Scrap paper is not permitted unless specifically allowed by the professor in the course examination instructions.

F. For LIMITED OPEN BOOK and OPEN BOOK remote examinations, students may, if permitted by their professor, have access to digital materials they have downloaded onto their device. Students will not have access to the internet during remote examinations.

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Rules for Live-proctored Exams

A. All examination rooms must be completely vacated one half hour prior to the scheduled time for the examination. Thereafter, students may only enter the examination room when the proctor so indicates.

B. Students who enter the room prior to the proctor’s arrival to the examination will be asked to vacate the room. All students must be checked into the examination room.

C. Upon entering the examination room, each student must present his or her student identification card to the proctor in order to receive his or her academic integrity card and handwriting book (if the student will not be using ExamSoft).

D. Students in live-proctored exams should arrive 30 minutes before the starting time of the exam.

E. All students must be checked in with the proctor at the assigned examination room at least 15 minutes prior to the scheduled start of the examination. (For example, a student must be checked in at 9:15am for a 9:30am examination). Students who are not checked in at this time must handwrite the examination. This includes students who receive exam accommodations. Once a student checks in to the exam room, the student may not leave the room until after the examination has begun.

F. No technical support is available to students prior to the start of the exam.

G. The proctor may impose seating arrangements in the examination room to facilitate the examination process.

H. Any student who arrives to the examination room after the starting time of the examination (without approval of the Dean of Law Student Affairs) will not be permitted any additional time to complete the examination. Examinees who arrive late to an examination will be required to handwrite the examination.

I. Students must come to the examination room with their laptop, power cord and Ethernet cable. Students without a power cord will be required to handwrite the examination.

J. Students may not return to their personal belongings while the examination is in process, except under the direct supervision of the proctor.

K. Students are strongly encouraged not to bring any non-examination materials (other than personal items) into the examination room for a closed book/limited open book examination. Students who remove articles

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