University policy requires that students be permitted to make up examinations missed due to illness, religious holy days, military service obligations including service-related medical appointments, other unavoidable circumstances, and University-sponsored activities (Policy Manual, IV-8.1). Instructors must offer reasonable options without penalty to students who have missed examinations for legitimate reasons. 

It is the student's responsibility to contact the instructor as soon as possible about the reasons for a missed exam. Instructors should not ask for medical documentation. Please see Attendance and Absences, Undergraduate for more information. 

Make-up examinations should be scheduled at a reasonable time and location. The make-up examination, if different, should be equivalent to the original in form, content, difficulty, and time limits, and the standards for scoring and grading should be equivalent to those used for the original examination. 

Instructors or departments may administer exams to students with accommodations or arrange to have accommodated exams proctored at a campus test center. For more information, visit Office of Student Disability Services (SDS) Exam Services page as well as UI Exam Services Instructor Resources site. If an instructor or department decides to administer exams instead of using Exam Services, SDS can help make sure exams meet accommodation requirements for a specific student as well as meet applicable college policies. For more information, see the Guidelines for Instructors. 

See Accommodating Students with Disabilities for more information about students with disabilities. Contact SDS with any questions or concerns about an approved accommodation, or how to best work with a student with a particular disability.

The policy of the University's Building Operations and Maintenance office is to stop construction immediately when the work disturbs an examination in progress. The instructor in charge of an examination should promptly report such problems to Operations and Maintenance (335-5071) or to the construction workers, asking them to contact their supervisor. 

See Class Disruptions for information on other disruptions

Instructors administering final examinations are required to use the date, time, and location, if applicable, as assigned by the Office of the Registrar.

Instructors may make arrangements with individual students to take final examinations at times other than the regularly scheduled time if circumstances warrant. 

Students who have two or more final exams/assessments scheduled for the same exam period or more than two final exams/assessments scheduled for the same exam day qualify to request a makeup final examination time from their instructors. 

However, students are required to contact the instructors of the courses involved to register their intent to take advantage of this opportunity and must do so within two weeks (14 days) of being notified by the Office of the Registrar of their final examination week schedule. It is up to the instructors of the courses involved to work in cooperation with their students to schedule appropriate makeup final examination arrangements according to the makeup final examination scheduling policies. 

If the student has an acceptable reason for being absent from a final exam, the instructor should arrange to give the student a makeup examination during the Registrar's makeup final exam time, or as soon as possible at another mutually agreeable time. If the exam is not taken prior to the session grading deadline, the instructor may assign the grade the student earned without the final examination grade, and then change the grade when the final examination has been taken, or assign a mark of Incomplete (I) as outlined in CLAS grading policies. 

If a student does not have a satisfactory excuse for missing a final examination, the instructor may assign the grade earned by the student without the score from the exam included in this final grade, following the grading scheme on the course syllabus.

In the unlikely event that a final examination is disrupted by events other than construction noise (see Class Disruptions) such as by a fire alarm, electrical outage, tornado warning, or other unpredictable incident, instructors must make whatever immediate decision seems appropriate to insure the safety of students. 

When possible, instructors should maintain examination security (for instance, by having students turn in examination papers as they leave the room). If the incident is of short duration, sufficient time may have elapsed (or remain) that the instructor may be able to simply shorten the examination. 

The instructor should contact the DEO for help in creating an equitable solution to the grading problems that the disruption causes. In most cases, especially with large classes, it will not be possible to schedule a makeup examination. In situations where exam security has been maintained, some portion of credit may be allocated for the examination. In other cases, it may be appropriate to recalculate grades without including an examination grade. 

Departments and instructors should strive to ensure that no student is unfairly penalized or favored by the policy adopted. The Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education can also advise faculty and departments.