Villanova University Law School Exam Instructions and Code of Conduct, Lecture notes of Law

Download Villanova University Law School Exam Instructions and Code of Conduct and more Lecture notes Law in PDF only on Docsity! Examinations & the Code of Conduct Examinations are subject to the Law School Code of Conduct as printed in the Student Handbook and the Exam Regulations printed below. In addition, the individual professor’s exam instructions for each exam must be followed exactly. Be sure to take the time in each exam to read the instructions carefully and to count the pages of the exam once the Proctor starts the exam, ensuring that you have all the pages. Proctors do not remain in the examination rooms, although they circulate through the rooms periodically. Students are bound to follow all the applicable rules and to report to the Honor Board any violations of rules or procedures that they believe may have occurred. Honor Board representatives are available outside exam rooms and will be wearing blue Honor Board Tee Shirts. If for some reason you cannot find an Honor Board proctor, contact the Registrar in the Registrar’s office. Examination Regulations & Procedures Amended 4/22 1. CODE OF CONDUCT VIOLATIONS: Students are bound by the Code of Conduct. It is published in the Student Handbook available on the Villanova Law website. All students must be familiar with the Code. Failure to report a violation of the Code of Conduct is itself a violation of the Code. 2. IMPROPER DISCLOSURE: Students must not disclose the form, content, degree of difficulty or any other information about an examination to a person who has not taken the exam, and must not discuss this information in the Law School building or any other place where someone who has not taken the examination may overhear. 3. EXAMINATION NUMBERS: Random examination numbers are used instead of names on all exams. The student’s random examination number, and not the name, must be written on bluebooks or answer sheets, and on every page of the examination. Students must obtain their exam numbers through Novasis. If you have any problems please contact the Registrar’s Office, but you must get your exam number before the first day of exams as Registrar’s staff will not be available for assistance when exams are being given. 4. TIME AND PLACE: All Exams: Students must be in the exam room and ready to start the exam at least 15 minutes before the designated start time published by the Registrar’s Office. Students using laptops must allow enough time to start their laptops and properly launch their exam software. RESCHEDULED AND SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCE EXAMINATIONS will be conducted in rooms designated by the Registrar. These students should not report to the assigned room, and should instead, follow the Registrar’s instructions. 5. STARTING THE EXAMINATIONS: A. When the exam Honor Board proctor so instructs, students must place all materials that are not specifically designated “permissible materials” in the front of the classroom, including but not limited to, backpacks, computer bags, cell phones, notebooks, texts, papers, electronic devices, ipods, headphones, purses, and bags. Nothing except an article of clothing (sweater, etc.) or food and drink as specified in paragraph 18, may be kept at the student’s seat. Students may only have one laptop or monitor at their seats. Once all materials are in the front of the room, and students have returned to their seats, the Registrar’s office representative will distribute the exam. B. Once the Proctor or Registrar’s office begins handing out the exams, students may not write anything (except if instructed by the Honor Board Proctor to write your examination number on the outside of the exam). C. Students must not open the exam until the exam administrator starts the exam and/or instructs students to do so. When the exam administrator starts the exam, students using exam software must click “Begin Exam” to lock down their computer. Students must check to ensure they have all pages of the exam, must fill out their examination numbers in the appropriate locations, and must read the instruction page(s) of the exam. 6. EXAMINATION MATERIALS: The examination will be handed out by the exam administrators. Scrap paper and bluebooks will be provided at the beginning of the exam. After the exam is started, additional scrap paper and bluebooks will be available from the Honor Board proctor outside the exam room. 7. LEAVING THE EXAMINATION ROOM: Students may leave the room during the examination but may go only to the restrooms, and, in appropriate circumstances, the Registrar’s Office or the Academic Dean’s Office. The library, student lounge, lockers, faculty or student organization offices, the dining room and Café, and cars are expressly off limits to students taking examinations. Students may not leave the building during the examination. Students may not take any materials (including bluebooks, answer sheets, the examination, laptops, scrap paper, and permitted materials) from the examination room during the examination. Books or other materials may not be placed in any area to which the students are permitted access during the examination. During the time the student is out of the exam room he/she may not talk with anyone except the Honor Board proctors, the Registrar and the Academic Dean or Tech Support personnel as appropriate. 8. CONCLUDING THE EXAMINATION: Students will be notified when there are five minutes and 1 minute remaining in the examination and when time has expired. Immediately upon the announcement that time has expired, all writing or typing must stop, all pens/pencils must be put down; and all students using computers must exit the program immediately. Students must upload their exam answers to the exam server. A student should not leave the exam room, or immediate proximity of the exam room until they have received confirmation that their exam was successfully submitted. A student may not review the examination or make any additions or deletions to the answers after time is called. Students who need to perform an administrative detail, such as adding their exam numbers to the exam or bluebooks, must ask the examination