Take-Home-Exams

On the central Learning Management System OpenOlat, you and your students can easily log in with your user credentials. As an employee of the University of Hamburg, you automatically have author rights, allowing you to create a course and set up your take-home exam environment there (or you can make a copy of the take-home exam template, see below).

Overview of Help Resources at UHH:https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en/elearning/tools/learning-platforms/openolat/instructions/.html

Another advantage: Most of your students—and perhaps you as well—will already be familiar with using OpenOlat.

Note!

• Be sure to create a separate course for your take-home exam—do not use the course you utilized as the course environment during your lecture.
• Name the course following the scheme "Name of Your Lecture - Take-Home Exam."
• Retain the course after the exam, along with all its contents.

• Video-Tutorials:  Introduction for Instructors: Create a Course  |  Short Introduction for Students  | Take Home Exams (THE) in OpenOlat - Web Session 
• Overview of Help Resources at UHH: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en/elearning/werkzeuge/lernplattformen/openolat/instructions.html
• HelpCards: A brief overview of the most important functions

You should only allow students who are registered for the exam to access the OpenOlat course with the take-home exam—not all students attending the course.

Currently, access to an OpenOlat course must be granted to examinees manually. We describe two procedures below: one for examiners and one for staff in student offices who can assist with this step. In both cases, the aim is to copy the matriculation numbers of the registered examinees and import them into the OpenOlat course using the "Import Members" function to make them participants.

Attention: These steps should be taken only after the registration and deregistration period has ended!#

How examiners can copy the matriculation numbers:

Instructions can be found in the HelpCard "Participant Import with Campus Management Reporting."

How student office staff can copy the matriculation numbers:

1. Open the exam round (or one of the exam rounds if bundled) and select registered participants.

2. Use the "Print" button to start the export.
3. Select the options "Grades," "Passed Exams," and "Failed Exams."
4. Set the storage location and name for the export file, manually adding the file extension ".csv" to open the export file as a table, for example, in Excel. Then, create the file using the "Export" button and open the created file.

5. Copy the matriculation numbers and use them to import the examinees into the course (description below).

Import examinees based on their matriculation numbers into the OpenOlat course as "members" and make them "participants":

1. Once you have copied the matriculation numbers and have them in the clipboard, go to the OO course for the THE and then to "Administration" - "Member Management." Click the "Import Members" button:

2. Paste the matriculation numbers, ensuring that each number is on a separate line:

3. Assign the "Participant" member to the examinees:

OpenOlat then offers to inform the examinees via email that they have been added to the course, providing a link to it.

Note that the course "status" should remain set to "Preparation" from this point and throughout all preparatory work. Also, keep the course address to yourself. Once the course status is set to "Published," examinees can view the course and access all visible and accessible content in the course, or not, which could cause uncertainty. By maintaining a course status of "Preparation" and withholding the course address, you prevent early inquiries about the accessibility of take-home exam content.

 

Attention: OpenOlat can only grant membership rights to individuals who have logged into the system at least once. Upon a person's initial login with their university user ID, OpenOlat syncs data with the general user database and stores a copy in OpenOlat, making the individual "known" to the platform.

If you receive a notification stating "The following users were not found: [matriculation numbers]," you must ask these examinees to log into OpenOlat for the first time and inform you afterward so you can add them individually.

With the help of the Task course component, you can organize activities and submission tasks. Students can upload their submissions to the course, and you, as the instructor, can provide feedback and assessments. You can also request revisions and provide sample solutions. If the students' internet bandwidth allows, even large submissions in large courses can be managed, as there is no upload or storage limit on the OpenOlat task component. All conceivable file formats can be submitted, so there are no restrictions from OpenOlat in this regard.

Another advantage of the Task component is that examinees only need to be online at the times of task assignment and for uploading their exams—whereas the Test course component requires an almost continuous online connection.

All events are logged in the Task component, which increases legal certainty.

A relatively new option is that students can work on their submissions directly within the OpenOlat course in the browser using the integrated application OnlyOffice as Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. Equations can be worked out in Word documents with OnlyOffice.

Note: Keep in mind that internet connection interruptions for examinees while editing a document with OnlyOffice (which occurs in the browser) can lead to problems. By default, OnlyOffice does save documents automatically at regular intervals, but still: It would be more reliable not to use this option in a take-home exam, and instead have Office documents worked on using their own Office application.

Please inform your students about this!

HTML documents can also be created and submitted directly in the browser, and the editor supports LaTeX ("Insert" – "Insert Mathematical Formula").

Here is an overview of relevant settings in the task component for a take-home exam:

Tab „Visibility“

1. should not impose any restrictions here.
2. To prevent any confusion, you should indicate in the 'Information if visible and no access' field that while the module with the take-home exam is already visible in the course menu, you may only make it accessible from the start of the processing time frame

Tab 'access'

In consultation with Department 31, Quality and Law, it is recommended to allow (read-only, not write) "access" to the module for a duration of one year beyond the processing timeframe.

This way, examinees can calmly ensure that their performance has been recorded even after the stressful exam period has passed.

1. Select "Date-dependent."
2. Enter the start of the processing timeframe in the "from" field.
3. In the "until" field, enter the date one year after the end of the processing timeframe.

You limit the completion of the take-home exam to the permitted timeframe in the following "Workflow" tab.

 

Tab 'Workflow'

1. Select "Mandatory – obligatory" and the option that task assignments are provided and assigned to participants.
2. The assignment should be possible until the end of the processing timeframe!
3. Enable the submission of solutions, and allow it until the end of the processing timeframe.

Attention: Keep in mind that exam results must be announced first in STiNE—and not in OpenOlat. Therefore, use the "Return and Feedback" and "Assessment" features with caution.

Tab 'Task Description'"

1. Select 'Type of Assignment – Automatic Assignment of a Task' and 'Type of Drawing – Task is Assigned to Multiple Users/Group.'

Assignment of Different Versions of the Task:

To assign different versions of the task (such as with different numerical values) to your examinees, upload the documents with the task variations, set "Automatic assignment of a task," and specify that a "task is assigned to multiple users/groups."

However, please note that no true randomization takes place: OpenOlat assigns the tasks sequentially to the examinees based on the order in which they were originally uploaded—and then starts over. For example, the first examinee to whom a task is assigned will receive task one. The second examinee to collect their task will receive task two, and so on. If there are only five versions, the process starts over with the sixth examinee.

If your assignment consists of multiple documents or files, you need to compile the parts of the overall task into a ZIP archive locally and upload it.

Alternatively, you currently only have the (unfortunately also cumbersome and somewhat risky) option of creating an HTML document file in the "Assignment" tab via "Create task." There, you can insert links to the actually relevant task files using "Insert link." You must upload these files to the same location beforehand. It is important to configure the assignment settings as follows: "Type of assignment: The user manually selects the task" and "Type of drawing: Task is assigned to multiple users/groups." Additionally, examinees must actually choose the HTML file—not one of the files embedded there, even though they are located in the same place.

 

In any case, you should inform your examinees that they need to open the task module and "download their tasks" from there. The OpenOlat-specific terms "Assignment Task" or "Automatic Assignment" have apparently, in some cases, given the impression that examinees could passively wait for the assignment (or a notification about it). This is incorrect. Those who do not actively seek out and download their tasks will not receive any!

Tab 'Submission'

1. Select "Upload documents (e.g., PDF) – enabled."

Attention: When you enter a value in "Max. Number of Documents," each upload by a participant is counted—even those uploads intended to overwrite a previous upload within the processing timeframe. For example, if your students are required to submit two documents, a written paper and a personal statement, setting the maximum number of documents to 2 would prevent students from replacing incorrect or needing-improvement uploads even if the processing timeframe is still ongoing. Therefore, it is advisable to enter a high number here—or leave the field blank. Ultimately, the main concern is ensuring that no submissions are uploaded after the processing timeframe has ended.

It might also be advisable to inform the examinees that they can upload a preliminary version of their submission well before the end of the processing timeframe, which they can then overwrite with the final version by the submission deadline.

You should have OpenOlat additionally send the text that confirms students' submissions as an email.

Attention: Students receive email notifications based on their personal settings located under "User Profile and Business Card" (top right) – "Settings" – "System" (see image). Therefore, students will only receive a submission confirmation at their external email address if their individual settings have been configured accordingly beforehand. Otherwise, they will only receive a message in their OpenOlat inbox.

Further details and instructions on how to proceed can be found in the OpenOlat user manual.

An alternative to the task component can be the course component test. OpenOlat offers various types of questions that can be automatically evaluated—namely, the multiple-choice procedure (see the important notes above). The so-called QTI tests (QTI is a relevant standard) can be integrated into the course either with a course component self-test or a course component test. Self-tests are used for non-binding practice and self-diagnosis. Their results are stored anonymously. In contrast, test results are stored personally. They are used for a binding test purpose.Für QTI-Tests stehen folgende Fragetypen zur Verfügung:

• Single-Choice: A question with at least two answer options, where only one can be selected and defined as correct.
• Multiple-Choice: A question with at least two answer options, where multiple answers can be selected and defined as correct.
• Kprim: A question with four statements, each of which can be defined as either true or false.
• Matrix: A question matrix with multiple columns and rows. One or more answers can be selected in a row.
• Drag and Drop: Terms can be assigned to categories.
• True/False: Similar to the Kprim question type. Statements must be evaluated per line.
• Fill-in-the-Blank/Text Gap: The searched terms are presented as blanks.
• Fill-in-the-Blank/Dropdown: The searched terms must be selected.
• Numerical Input: Numerical inputs are presented as blanks.
• Hottext: In a running text, one or more predefined terms can be selected as correct.
• Hotspot-Question: Multiple areas in an uploaded image can be defined as correct/incorrect.
• Ordering: Texts or images are arranged in a specific order.
• Free Text:  A question with freely formulated answers in a text box of any size. The assessment is not automatic.
• Upload File: This question format allows for the submission of created files within a test/self-test.
• Drawing: The uploaded image can be edited. The assessment is not automatic.

Caution: Keep in mind that examinees must remain online throughout while working on an exam based on the course component test. In contrast, with the course component task, they can work offline after downloading the assignment until the final submission needs to be uploaded.

If an examinee experiences an interruption in their internet connection during a test, all previously submitted answers are saved. However, they can only continue working once the internet connection is restored. In the event of a disconnection, no controls can be selected. Once the connection is reestablished, the test resumes from the point of disconnection. The remaining test time continues to be visibly counted down and displayed.

Examinees should know that,

• in the event of an internet connection interruption while answering a test (clicks on "Save Answer," "Next Question," "Finish Test," or other OpenOlat controls will have no effect), they should ideally keep the OpenOlat browser window open. This way, they can answer the next question immediately once their internet connection is restored.
• they should communicate any disconnection during the exam to the exam administrator. This ensures that answers that may have already been submitted and transmitted are not considered an official attempt.

Randomization options in tests

To make attempts at cheating based on unauthorized collaboration more difficult in OpenOlat tests, you can deliver the sections of a test, the questions within a section, and the answer options of a question in random order.

• The random ordering of answer options within a question

Edit your question and the corresponding answers, and save the changes made. If possible, enable the "Yes" option for "Random Order.".

• The random ordering of questions within a section 

In the course editor, select the section in the course menu for which the questions should be delivered in random order. In the "Section" tab, choose the "Yes" option for "Random order of questions or sections?"

• The random ordering of sections
  

Edit the test component and select the "Test Configuration" tab, where you can edit or create the test under "Selected File." Edit the test. Here, in the respective upper section, you can choose under "Section" - "Random order of questions or sections?" To do this: Create a "supersection" and drag and drop all "subsections" containing the test questions into it. Then proceed as described under the point: "The random ordering of questions within a section."

Note: Unfortunately, it is currently not possible to create mathematical problems in which examinees are given individually different numerical values. As a workaround, you might consider creating a section for each question. Then, create each question (task) multiple times with different numerical values but limit the number of questions to be delivered in each section to 1. You have to pay attention to one trick: the number of questions per section should vary slightly. If each section contained the same number of questions (variants, from which exactly one is to be randomly selected according to the configuration), OpenOlat would offer each examinee question 1 or question 2 or question 3, etc., in each section.

Another tip: To simplify the creation of many question variants, you can use the question import feature with Excel. Currently, the following question types are supported for import: Single-Choice, Multiple-Choice, Kprim, Gap Text (Fill-in-the-Blank), Essay, Matrix, Drag & Drop, and True/False.

Corrections of faulty questions and adjustment of point values during/after the execution of the test

If it becomes apparent during or after an examination using the multiple-choice procedure that a question was faulty, adjustments are required based on examination law (see the detailed guidance on the multiple-choice procedure). This can be done by awarding all examinees uniform credit points for the unsuitable question.

1. Access the Exam (Test component) outside of the course editor.
2. Click on "Correct."
3. Click on the three blue dots next to the faulty question.
4. Select "Set points for all participants."

All the details and configuration options are described in the user manual.

In the eLearning portal, you will find some help cards related to this context.

In OpenOlat, you can find a sample test with all question types.

OpenOlat allows for a detailed configuration of "Visibility" and "Access" at the level of each course component, each in its respective tab. For a take-home exam, the following settings are recommended:

"Visibility" of the component with the exam: Continuous without restriction

The "visibility" of the component with the take-home exam should be continuous and independent of the examination timeframe.

This allows examinees to familiarize themselves early with where in the course menu the take-home exam will be accessible once the examination timeframe begins.

"Access" to the component with the exam: Date-dependent from the start of the examination timeframe—and beyond!

Access to the take-home exam component should be "date-dependent," meaning

• from the start of the examination timeframe and
• extend one year beyond the examination timeframe!

Caution: This recommendation is based on an examination law consideration and is coordinated with Department 31, Quality and Law. Additionally, this allows examinees to confirm within the component that their performance has been recorded, even after the stressful examination period has ended.

Limiting the completion of the take-home exam to the allowed timeframe

Depending on which course component you use for your take-home exam, you can limit the ability to work on the take-home exam to the actual examination timeframe as follows.

• Course component Task:
  
  
  1. In the course editor, after selecting the task component, choose the "Workflow" tab.
  2. Select "Enable submission of solutions for participants" and specify the end of the examination timeframe under "Submission until...".
  3. You should also allow the assignment of tasks until the end of the examination timeframe here.

For more detailed information about the "Workflow" tab, see the section on the Course component Task.

• Course component Test:
  1. In the course editor, after selecting the test component, choose the "Test Configuration" tab.
  2. Check the box for "Set test period" and specify the examination timeframe.

 

OpenOlat indirectly suggests that, in addition to setting a test period, you can also specify a test duration:

During the test period (establishing a start time and an end time at the component level, optional), the test can be initiated. However, it can only be worked on for as long as the test duration (setting a duration in minutes within the test file, optional) allows.

Caution: Although this distinction enables differentiation between the examination timeframe and the duration, experience shows there are high risks of misconfiguration and misunderstandings among examinees! If you still wish to set a test duration, please be sure to consider how buffer times are handled in your teaching unit, what announcements have been made regarding the examination timeframe and duration, and whether you need to account for a specific buffer time within the test duration.

Granting compensation for disadvantage through an extended deadline

If certain examinees are to be granted an extended examination timeframe as compensation for a disability, OpenOlat provides the following options:

• If the course component Task is used for the take-home exam,

1. as the "Owner" or "Tutor" of the course, select this component.
2. In the "All Participants" list displayed, choose "Extend" on the far right for the affected examinee.
3. Now enter the end of the individually extended examination timeframe in the fields "Assignment until..." and "Submission until...".

  

• If the course component Test is used for the take-home exam,
  , 
  1. go to the "Administration" section and select the "Assessment tool." In the "List of all assessable elements," choose the link to the course components.
  2. Then navigate in the menu (on the left side) to the test.
  3. In the list of examinees, click the three-dot symbol on the far right in the row of the affected person.
  4. Select "Add compensation for disadvantage" and enter the additional time in the subsequent dialog.
     
     The "Add compensation for disadvantage" link will only appear in the menu if a test period has already been set in the Test component under the "Test Configuration" tab.

Please refer to the detailed guidance for examination committees, faculty, and academic administration provided by the Office for Students with Disabilities or Chronic Illnesses:

Which measures for accommodating disabilities in in-person exams can be applied to take-home exams? (PDF)

The declaration that candidates must submit when handing in their exam, assuring that they have completed the exam independently and solely using the allowed resources, should you 

• For submissions using the course module 'Task,' please upload it as an additional document as 'Submission'.
• For submissions using the course module 'Test,' please upload it in a separate course module of the type 'Participant Folder.' You should name this module.
• Submission Declaration' in the interest of consistency in the course menu (in the 'Short Title' field). The module should be accessible from the beginning of the assignment period and extend a little beyond the end of the assignment period (so that the declaration can still be submitted if it could not be done precisely within the time frame).

Attention: Due to examination law requirements, the declaration should neither be requested upon entering the course (for example, in the terms of use), nor should it be required by checking a box in a multiple-choice question, nor should it be requested as an upload within the test module: The declaration must be made in writing and 'upon submission'!

The OpenOlat course template (see the link in the corresponding section below) includes two sample PDF forms for declarations of independence. These are based on the two variants of Take-Home Exams differentiated in the section 'What is a Take-Home Exam' above. The forms are legally secure proposals that you can use. Before submitting such a declaration within OpenOlat, candidates need to only fill in their personal data. A handwritten signature is not required.

If the Take-Home Exam was conducted in the task module:

• Download all submitted documents
  1. Select the corresponding button in the task module:
     
• Return qualified feedback and/or correction  
  1. Access the task module,
  2. Select candidate,
  3. Under 'Return and Feedback,' add a 'Document' and/or provide feedback in the text field 'Give Feedback' (see illustration).

Condition: In the 'Workflow' tab of the task module, you must have checked the box for 'Return and Feedback

• Provide comments for candidates and/or other supervisors (correction assistance) and make a final assessment
  

You can make a final assessment (Pass/Fail) plus comment accessible to your candidates. Both can initially be hidden and made visible to the candidate later. You can also leave a comment for other supervisors (see illustration):

Attention: Please note that examination results/grades must be announced first in STiNE – and not in OpenOlat.

1. Access the task module,
2. Select candidate,
3. Click on 'Evaluate' under 'Assessment.'
4. Fill out the assessment form.
   

• Grant access to view
  If an examiner uses all the options for return, feedback, and assessment shown above, the task module will appear as follows for candidates:
  
   The prerequisite is that you have kept the 'access' to the task module open beyond the submission deadline (this is generally recommended anyway, so that candidates can verify whether and what they have submitted).

If the Take-Home Exam was conducted in the test module:

After the exam, you can view individual results in the 'Participants' tab, manually correct the tests, and provide individual feedback in the assessment form.

By the way: Via 'Correct,' you can also correct the overall test 'Question-by-Question' rather than 'Candidate-by-Candidate.' And with the 'Test Statistics,' you can analyze the exam as a whole.

• View results, provide feedback, and make a final assessment
  Attention: Please note that examination results/grades must be announced first in STiNE – and not in OpenOlat.

1. Access the test module and select candidate
2. Select 'Correct' to perform the manual correction and ultimately save a final result. 
3. Provide the candidate with qualified feedback in the 'Assessment Form' - 'Comment for User' and/or upload an assessment document and save.
   
   

• Grant access to the answers given in the exam, the solutions, and the results.

1. Select the test module in the course editor,
2. Access the tab 'Test Configuration'
3. Make settings under 'Report' (see following illustration).
4. Save and publish.
   
   
   If it is specified (as shown in the illustration just shown) that the test correction is done "Manually by Course Coaches," then the examinees will only see their own answers, the correct solutions, and their results after this correction is completed. Otherwise, examinees can view this information immediately after completing the test (though this is, of course, not recommended due to the special evaluation requirements in the answer-choice procedure (PDF) and because grades must fundamentally be published in STiNE first)

   If you...

   • have the correction,
   • have configured the test component as shown above,
   • have entered a comment and additionally uploaded a grading document (both optional)

...the examinees will see something like this when they re-enter the test component:

The Assessment Tool: Central Access to All Pending Evaluations

As an alternative to the assessment options directly within the Task and Test components, you can use the Assessment Tool. This provides a central hub for evaluations in the "Administration" area of a course. Course owners and designated coaches (more on the of coaches in the following section) can use it to review and assess the performance of their participants in all "gradable components."

Upon accessing the Assessment Tool, you immediately have access to an overview of the current pending evaluations, a list of gradable elements, and statistical data regarding participant activities. Additionally, a notification service is offered for new submissions and test results.

Assessments can then be initiated by individual persons (in the center of the subsequent illustration) or by individual components (on the left), where the performance of multiple people can be evaluated.

With a "mass assessment," it is possible to evaluate the performance of several course participants at once. To do this, a list must be created externally and later uploaded, containing the user identification, the number of points, the status, and—if desired—the comment. The individual fields are separated by a tab or comma.

• How to assess all gradable course components of a person: Open documentation
• Assess tasks: Open documentation
• Create a mass assessment for submission tasks: Open documentation

If you want to get support for grading a take-home exam, you can assign the course-specific "Coach." Course coaches have access to the course's grading tool (see above) but cannot edit the course in the course editor or delete the course.

Add your staff or correction assistants as "Coaches" as follows: Go to "Administration" – "Member Management" – "Add Member," and enter the first and last name of the person concerned under "Search with User Attributes." Click on "Search."

Note: OpenOlat only recognizes individuals who have logged into the Learning Management System at least once!

Select the person, click "continue," and under "Member Rights Course 'Your Course Name'," check the box for "Coach.".

Please note: To ensure that tests and submissions by students are not altered or lost during the evaluation process, you should secure them first before adding your correction assistants as "coaches" in the course. Details on this can be found under the keywords "Export results" (tests) and "Download all submitted documents" (submissions in the task component).

• Course Role "Coach": Open Documentation

Settings and changes that you make in the course editor only become effective in the course view after "publishing."

All settings and changes you make in the "course editor" need to be "published." Only then will the changes be effective for participants.

This allows you to prepare your course at your own pace. It also enables you to implement updates collectively during an ongoing course.

If you have made changes in the course editor and are about to leave the editor, you will be directly prompted to publish. You can now either make all previous changes effective at once (button "Yes, automatically"), or only some of them (button "Yes, manually"). However, you can also postpone the publication ("No"), in which case OpenOlat remembers all changes for a later publication (possible via the toolbar in the course editor). All individuals with the course "owner" can always see the changes made since the last publishing in the course editor.

Note: If you publish changes to the course while participants are working in it, their current inputs in text fields of forums and wikis will be lost.

Participants with access authorization can only see their courses once they have the "Status: Published."

New courses and course copies initially have the "Status: Preparation."

A course becomes visible to authorized participants only when its status is set to "Published." This is true regardless of how course access is configured for participants. This allows for thorough preparation of the course and configuration of course access without giving participants early access.

The selection menu for the course status is visible to individuals with the course "owner" outside of the course editor in the top left corner (see figure).

 

Providing a sample solution in the task component without uploading it makes the task component invisible.

If the "Sample Solution" feature is enabled with a checkmark in the "Workflow" tab of the task component, but no sample is uploaded in the "Sample Solution" tab, this incomplete configuration renders the component invisible!

Completed exams remain saved even if examinees leave an exam course.

OpenOlat courses are configured by default after creation or copying so participants can leave the course if they wish. To the best of our knowledge (in eLearning support), this aligns with the intent of data protection requirements. This aspect of course configuration is found under "Administration" / "Settings" / "Release" / "Access and Booking Configuration," and here with the selection option "Participants can leave voluntarily: Anytime."

Nonetheless, the fact is: Assessable activities of a participant (such as in the task component or the test component) remain stored even after they exit the course!

However, now these activities are only traceable for "owners" in the evaluation tool, not for any "coaches." If "coaches" are to evaluate the activities of participants who have left the course, you must also make these individuals "owners" of the course. This stems from the logic that personal data of "course leavers" should be deleted or at least protected wherever possible. The second aspect follows that "coaches" are allowed less in a course (configure and access information) than "owners."

Additional typical questions and answers about exams in OpenOlat can be found on this page in the DL portal.

You can find an OpenOlat course that can serve as a template for your take-home exam in the catalog of the platform under “Course Templates” – or directly at the address https://www.openolat.uni-hamburg.de/auth/RepositoryEntry/130188257. An English version is available at https://www.openolat.uni-hamburg.de/auth/RepositoryEntry/262307971/.

 The template includes a guide (PDF) that shows you how to create a copy and configure it for your own exam.

Update: Although the course template is in a very advanced version, there may still be changes made regarding individual functions or configuration details. Such changes would not affect existing copies of the template. Therefore, it is advisable to check this information page under "Update" after making a copy and before starting your take-home exam to see if any modifications have been made to the template that you might want to incorporate.

 To create your own course based on the template, select “Administration” and “Copy” in the template (and not “Convert to Learning Path Course”):

Attention: Once again, this is just a reminder that these are merely tips at the work level. We cannot assume the responsibility of the examiner's for you.

Please try out your own take-home exam course and its implementation in detail yourself. This can be easily done by switching in OpenOlat

And above all: Have your students write a practice take-home exam early!

We wish you success and appreciate any feedback that may benefit others

H.W.