How does your makeup exam testing facility get student assessment back to you?

[Aster]

My own university is currently re-evaluating this process (to make it much more burdensome on professors). I was wondering how this process is carried out at other universities.

[Caracal]

My own university is currently re-evaluating this process (to make it much more burdensome on professors). I was wondering how this process is carried out at other universities.

You can choose. You can go pick them up at the office, they can be sent to your mailbox, or they just scan the thing and send it via email to you. I always choose to get mine emailed. I'm always worried about losing exams and if I have one random one separate from the rest it would be a lot easier for me to misplace it somewhere.

[Parasaurolophus]

My own university is currently re-evaluating this process (to make it much more burdensome on professors). I was wondering how this process is carried out at other universities.

You can choose. You can go pick them up at the office, they can be sent to your mailbox, or they just scan the thing and send it via email to you. I always choose to get mine emailed. I'm always worried about losing exams and if I have one random one separate from the rest it would be a lot easier for me to misplace it somewhere.

Same here.

(Although it only applies to exams taken with the disabilities office; we're responsible for administering everything else.)

[Biologist_]

Our disability office will administer exams for students with accommodations, but it's up to us to handle any other makeup exams. That can be a substantial burden for large-enrollment classes.

For students with disability accommodations, we can upload an electronic file of the exam or drop off a paper copy. The office will then return a paper copy of the completed exam to the faculty member's department office unless the faculty member asks to pick it up instead.

[Caracal]

Our disability office will administer exams for students with accommodations, but it's up to us to handle any other makeup exams. That can be a substantial burden for large-enrollment classes.

I went to a standard makeup exam that I administer during the final exam period. (this works because I just give a normal exam during the final period. It doesn't count more or take longer than other exams) I'm sure it wouldn't work for some classes, but not having to schedule and deal with make ups has made my life a lot easier.

[mythbuster]

We have a disability resource office that administers exams for students who qualify for accommodations. Your can pick up from them or they send it back through campus mail, which can be quite slow.
   Makeup exams we have to deal with ourselves. This is why we encounter students taking exams in the break room on occasion. Most everyone in my department has some sort of dropped exam policy to curtail the need to large numbers of makeup exams.

[rxprof]

Exams for students with accommodations are returned to the department office and then I have to pick them up. I administer make up exams, except in extenuating circumstances.

[Golazo]

I can either have them scanned, uploaded to a secure site, or pick them up. I do the first two.

[onthefringe]

They used to hire students to bring exams back to your office or a departmental office, but it sometimes took up to 72 hours.

New this year I can either have them scanned and returned by email (seems to usually take less than 12 hours), or pick up the physical copy myself. If I have them scanned and emailed (which I do), the testing facility holds the physical copy for a year and then destroys it, in compliance with the Uni's data storage and retention policies.

I use the testing center for students with testing accommodations, but usually administer makeup exams myself.

[the_geneticist]

The testing center here is only for students with ADA accommodations.  We can either email or drop off a copy of the exam materials and they are returned within 24 hours of the student finishing the exam.  Most folks here do not offer makeup exams at all and will calculate grades based on the other exams if the student has a valid excuse (car crash, flu, etc.).  Or they will give the student a makeup exam in their office (rarely).
It would be nice if we had a makeup exam testing facility.

[lightning]

My university testing center makes it as inconvenient as possible for me. For example, I actually have to walk over there (and it's in a cr@ppy part of the campus where I never go), drop off the test that I print out myself (paper only!!!!), fill out an info sheet (paper only that I can only get & fill out at the testing center), and fill out a cover sheet (ditto). I can't just email all the stuff, or send via campus mail. At least they send back completed tests quickly, and I don't have to deal directly with the flakes.

[mamselle]

I'd grab an extra blank form next time and make a buncha copies, if I were you...

On other related topics: has anyone noticed how smoothly the curve runs on the graph related to the poll for this thread?

Any statisticians out there who want to comment on its perfection as a Bell (or other) curve?

(Just an idle observation...)

M.

[Juvenal]

Messenger to my mailbox.