Proctored Assessment Policy and Testing Information
Many Ole Miss Online instructors require their students
to take exams that are in a proctored environment. That
might mean coming to one of the University of Mississippi
campuses (Oxford, Southaven, Tupelo, or Boonville),
or you can make arrangements with our office to have
an approved proctor administer your exam.
If you are off-campus and you want to take your exam
at a non-UM location, you must submit an Off-Campus
Exam Request Form. The examination request must
be received by UM Independent Study and Ole Miss Online
Office at least seven (7) days before
the examination date
We reserve the right to require any student to come
to the Oxford campus to write an examination if there
is any doubt about the originality of the student’s
work.
Frequently Asked Questions
For Students
Proctored Exam Procedures for
Proctors
Scheduling Examinations
The student is responsible for scheduling an appointment
with a college or university testing center and for
submitting an examination request form to our office
for every test he is required to take. The Off-Campus
Exam Request Form must include the proctor’s name,
contact information, institution, location where the
exam will given and the appointment day and time when
the examination will be taken. Students are responsible
for test site fees. Additional fees may be assessed
for examinations with laboratory components. Contact
us at online@olemiss.edu
or 877-915-7313 if you require additional information
or assistance.
Appointments for examination may be requested through
the following:
- The University of Mississippi Independent
Study & Ole Miss Online Office and UM Branch Campuses:
Appointments for examinations may be made through
the Online
Learning Test Scheduler. This information is also
available by following the testing links posted to
your Ole Miss Online class in Angel. Seats are limited;
therefore, the student should schedule their appointment
as early as possible.
- Other Academic Institutions: Contact
the testing center or designated testing official
at an accredited college of university. A testing
fee may be charged. The student must provide all the
information requested on the Off-Campus
Exam Request Form including the proctor’s
name, contact information, institution, location where
the exam will given and the appointment day and time
when the examination will be taken.
- Outside the United States: Contact
a testing official at an accredited college or university.
Students abroad, incarcerated students, and students
at military posts may request special testing arrangements
by contacting the UM Office of Independent Study and
Ole Miss Online. A testing fee may be charged by the
testing office.
- The student MUST submit all
examination requests at least seven (7)
days before the examination date so that
the request can be processed and the examination
delivered to the test site.
- The student must provide all
the information requested on the Off-Campus
Exam Request Form including the proctor’s
name, contact information, institution, location
where the exam will be given and the appointment
day and time when the examination will be taken.
- The student must submit an Off-Campus
Exam Request Form for every
proctored assessment required and for every
course that requires proctored assessments.
Proctored Assessment
Policy
- Ole Miss Online students must comply with the Proctored
Testing Policy for web-based or online courses.
- If an online or web-based course requires proctored
assessments, then it is the responsibility of the
individual taking the course (hereinafter “student”)
to schedule proctored assessments.
- All proctored assessments must be taken under the
supervision of an approved test site official (hereinafter
“proctor”).
- All students must use a proctor who has been approved
by the Department of Online Learning and Independent
Study.
- The Department of Online Learning and Independent
Study reserves the right to reject any proctor and
to require the student to come to a campus of the
University of Mississippi to take the proctored assessment.
- Students requesting special testing accommodations
must provide copies of the appropriate documentation
from the University of Mississippi’s Office
of Student Disability Services to the Department of
Online Learning and Independent Study no later than
seven (7) working days prior to the student’s
first proctored assessment each semester.
- Students who are unable to sit for a proctored
assessment at the main campus or one of the regional
campuses of the University of Mississippi must submit
an “Off-Campus Exam Request Form” in a
timely manner as outlined below.
- The Department of Online Learning and Independent
Study should receive a student’s completed “Off-Campus
Exam Request Form” as early as possible, but
no later than seven (7) working days prior to the
opening of the testing window for each proctored assessment.
- If an “Off-Campus Exam Request Form”
is received after the stated deadline, it is possible
that the exam will be received by the proctor after
the appropriate testing date, thereby affecting the
student’s grade. Additionally, the processing
fee for late submissions of the “Off-Campus
Exam Request Form” will be $40 per exam if in
the U.S. and $60 per exam if outside the U.S. These
fees will be charged to the student’s Bursar
account.
- The Department of Online Learning and Independent
Study can not accommodate an “Off-Campus Exam
Request Form” received less than forty-eight
(48) hours before the scheduled exam date and time.
- If an exam must be sent via express mail to meet
a testing deadline as a result of a student’s
delay in submitting the completed “Off-Campus
Exam Request Form” or of inaccuracies on the
application, the express mail charges will be charged
to the student’s Bursar account.
- It is the responsibility of the student to pay
the proctor fees required by some testing centers.
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