Make-Up & Accommodated Exams
We administer make-up exams for students who are unable to test due to illness, a family emergency or military service. This service is available to all courses (including classroom) at our Taylorsville Redwood, Jordan, Herriman, and South City locations. Make-up exams are not offered during the week of finals. If your entire class is not taking their final through Testing Services, with the exception of accommodated exams, the exam request is considered a make-up exam and will be offered the following week.
We administer exams for students with accommodation for faculty that do not use our services regularly for testing. If you are using our services for your entire course, you do not need to submit a separate accommodated exam request.
When you submit a make-up/accommodated exam, we encourage you to select all four Testing Centers (Taylorsville Redwood, Jordan, Herriman, and South City) to give students the maximum availability in testing appointments. By default, all testing center sites are selected. If you would like to schedule a make up/accommodated exam at a specific site, please deselect the other sites and select the location where the student will take the exam. Always deselect the Virtual site. If it is unselected, a message indicating that the exam was not copied to Virtual will appear.
When submitting make up or accommodated (ADS) exams, faculty will need either the student’s username from Canvas/Banner or the student’s S number in order to assign the exam to the student’s Bruinmail account. The system recognizes students with similar names; therefore, please be careful not to enter information that does not belong to your student.
When signing up for a make-up/ADS exam, the student will no longer need to provide their S number and will be able to automatically schedule the make-up exam as long as they are signing in through MySLCC. Students will be able to sign up by clicking on their initials at the top right of their screen and select ‘My Exams' (the same way that they would schedule for any other academic exam). They can alternatively go to either 'Make Up Exam' or 'Accommodated Testing' in the drop-down menus and should see the exam to register for there.
When naming your exam, include the course name, course number, section, and exam type. Submissions missing this required information may be returned to the faculty member for resubmission, which can result in processing delays.
How to Submit a Make-up or Accommodated Exam
- Visit MySLCC and navigate to the 'Testing Services (Faculty)' tile card on your home page. If you do not see the testing tile card, please go to the bottom of the page and click on 'Discover More'. In the search box, type 'testing'. You can pin this tile card to your home page for future submissions.
- Click on either ‘Submit a Make Up Exam Request’ or ‘Submit an Accommodated Exam Request’ under Testing Services.
- Once you click the link to RegisterBlast, navigate to ‘Submissions’ and ‘+New’.
- Fill out all the required information on this form. Some important policies to be aware of:
- All necessary files must be attached at the time of the request. These files should be in a finalized form and ready to give to students directly without the Testing Center making any alterations (e.g., no answer keys attached, exams with multiple parts must have the two parts attached as separate files).
- All exams must have a time limit from 30 to 180 minutes.
- There is a minimum processing time of 24 hours (1 business day) to make the test available for students to schedule. All submissions received during weekends or holiday closures will be processed according to our regular business schedule. We are unable to process same day submissions. Any submissions received for same day processing will instead be processed on the following business day, with the exam date adjusted accordingly.
- Please note, certain accommodations will place a 48-hour restriction for scheduling to allow exam preparation i.e., read/scribe, enlarged text, or other accommodations. Please consider your student’s accommodations when setting start and end dates as they may not always be able to schedule after an exam has been made available for scheduling. No same-day submissions will be accepted.
- For paper exams only: completed exams will be scanned and emailed directly to the instructor; as this is the mode of delivery, no scantrons will be given out to students. All answers will be recorded directly on the exam.
- For both Accommodated and Make-up exams you must edit your Canvas course and make sure your exam is available and/or has the correct amount of time allocated to the student. Testing Services is unable to modify time limits or open locked exams on behalf of faculty.
- Make Up exams are intended only for students in the above categories.
- Make-up testing windows may be open for a maximum of two work weeks.
- Make-up testing will not be offered during final exam periods.
- Accommodated exams do not need a separate submission request if the entire course is using Testing Services.
- Do not include double time when submitting an accommodated exam request. The scheduling system will automatically calculate any additional time. However, please ensure that the exam time limit in Canvas is set correctly for accommodated students, as the scheduling system and Canvas do not integrate or share timing information.
We strongly encourage faculty and students to review our testing policies to prepare for their appointment.