The following information pertains to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Tippie College of Business, College of Education, College of Engineering, College of Nursing, College of Public Health, University College, and the Graduate College.
Carver College of Medicine, College of Dentistry, College of Law, and College of Pharmacy maintain their own exam schedules.
The approved evening midterm exam time periods are:
6:30 pm- 8:00 pm
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
8:45 pm - 10:15 pm
These periods allow instructors the ability to choose either a 1 1/2 hour or 2 hour time period. Evening exams needing less than 1 1/2 hours or more than 2 hours will be scheduled to begin at 6:30 pm.
Evening midterm exam needs are submitted online via the Course Offerings Exam Needs tool in MAUI. Academic departmental administrators with course creation/edit access are able to submit evening midterm exam needs. Instructions on how to submit evening midterm exam needs are available online. If you need additional assistance, please contact reg-exams@uiowa.edu.
If the evening midterm exam assignment has not yet been created by Classroom Scheduling, changes to the needs request can be made by going back into the Exam Needs tool in MAUI Offerings Planner and updating the request.
If the evening midterm exam assignment has already been created by Classroom Scheduling, all change requests need to be submitted via email to reg-exams@uiowa.edu.
Evening midterm exam scheduling will be coordinated on a first-come, first-served basis as the foundation of assignment. However, when necessary, large core undergraduate course offerings with historical examination scheduling policies will be scheduled as priority when in direct conflict on request date and time. Classroom Scheduling will consult with appropriate associate deans for date and/or classroom priority when necessary.
If you are requesting an evening midterm exam or evening midterm make-up exam longer than 2 hours for your course, approval from the departmental DEO and aean's office is required. Approval should be emailed to reg-exams@uiowa.edu prior to any scheduling request.
If an evening exam period outside of the approved examination periods for evening exam times is requested, approval from the departmental DEO and Dean's Office is required. Approval should be emailed to reg-exams@uiowa.edu prior to any scheduling request.
The makeup exam, if different, should be as equivalent as possible in content, difficulty, form, and time limits to the original. The standards for scoring and grading the make-up exam should be equivalent to those used with the original exam as well. Students taking evening midterm make-up exams should not be given a longer period of time to take the exam than was offered to students taking the originally scheduled evening midterm exam.
Extended time midterm exams for SDS students cannot be combined with midterm make-up examinations.
It is the department's responsibility to communicate any special needs or examination requirements, if they exist, via the special needs field in the MAUI Offerings Planner Exam Needs tool.
These policies apply to exams scheduled during the semester. See Final Examination Policies regarding exams held on designated University final exam dates.
When instructors plan to give exams outside of class time, they should announce the dates and times at the first class meeting and list them on the course syllabus for distribution at the first class meeting.
Students at The University of Iowa are permitted to make up exams missed due to religious holidays, illness, or unavoidable circumstances. Faculty members should reschedule exams for students who miss them for reasons consistent with the University's policy regarding religious holidays, as stated in Part III, Chapter 22, Section 10, "Religious Diversity and the University Calendar," of the University Operations Manual.
Each college within the University is free to establish its own rules and regulations concerning absences from class. However, University regulations require that students be allowed to make up examinations that have been missed due to illness, mandatory religious obligations, or other unavoidable circumstances or University activities, as stated in Part IV, Chapter 8, Section 1, "General," of the University Operations Manual.
The standard practice of The University of Iowa Facilities Management Department is to immediately stop construction when that work disturbs an examination in progress. The faculty member in charge of the examination should promptly report such problems to Work Control (5-5071) or to the construction workers, asking them to contact the Project's Construction Manager for further instructions.