This is a major source of stress, which increases as the date of the full partial season approaches, in May, and as that of confinement, which is decided to fight against the Covid-19 epidemic, drags on: how will the exams take place? While a number of universities are currently phosphorizing the issue, the government has just allowed them, by an order made on March 27, greater flexibility to adapt the tests to the circumstances. The text, in particular, authorizes them to replace the traditional homework on the table with “remote” controls. The only constraint: notify candidates at least two weeks in advance of the new test conditions.
At the very selective Paris-Dauphine University, the teams are in full reflection on the subject. One certainty for the moment: "The exams will be maintained on the scheduled dates and they will take place online for every 1st and 2nd year," explains Renaud Dorandeu, director of licenses in organizational sciences. “We are also going to vary the cursor on the part of the continuous control and the terminal control, which usually count each for 50% of the note. "
Oral videoconferencing?
An example ... among thousands. "There is a whole range of solutions and each establishment acts according to its constraints," notes Pierre Beust, adviser in charge of the file at the Directorate General for Higher Education, also vice-president of the University of Caen-Normandy. We can, for example, imagine replacing written texts with oral videoconferencing, quizzes, brainstorming sessions to work in groups… ”
The organization of telesurveillance partials, in which students live at home in conditions almost similar to an examination room, via webcam, is also technically possible, but it risks being little used. And for good reason: it remains terribly expensive, "around 10 euros per hour per student," says Pierre Beust.
“A number of establishments are thinking of mixed solutions, do we breathe in the Ministry of Higher Education, with part of the checks carried out online, but also face-to-face exams. The holding of partials in college, with tests common to several subjects in order to save time in organizing and correcting copies, remains an option in the college landscape, on the horizon of June.