Policies & Guidelines

The following guidelines must be followed while in the Testing Center:

1. A valid, government-issued photo ID is required. This can be a driver’s license, passport, state ID, or military ID.
2. All personal belongings must be placed in a locker out in the hall. The following items are not permitted in the testing room: 
   • Purses/ book bags/ brief cases 
   • Hats 
   • Food 
   • Cell phones, pagers, iPods, PDAs, Bluetooth headsets and other electronic devices 
3. Children are not allowed in the testing center. Please make arrangements prior to arriving for your exam. 
4. Please allow adequate time to check in and receive instructions for your exam.
5. Special arrangements (extensions, additional permitted materials, etc.) must be requested from your instructor/requesting institution. 
6. No exams are given beyond the specified date without permission from the instructor/ requesting institution. 
7. Communication with others in the testing room is prohibited. If seen conversing with others your test will be confiscated. 
8. All computer activity is monitored. Accessing any outside resources during your testing session may result in the termination of your exam. Any such activity will be reported. 
9. Going in and out of the testing room for breaks is not allowed. Please use the restroom before you enter the testing room and begin your exam. 
10. When you are finished, bring this sheet and your completed exam to the proctor on duty. 
11. All scrap paper must be turned in to the proctor once your testing session has ended. Anything you used during testing must be collected- including permitted note sheets. 
12. Come prepared for and give enough time to complete your exam prior to the Learning Commons closing. All tests will be terminated at closing time regardless of time remaining. 
13. Items left in the testing room will be placed in a lost and found drawer. 
14. If you have questions during your exam please exit the testing room and speak to an available proctor. 
15. Failure to comply with these policies or Franklin University policies may result in the termination of your exam.

The term 'exam misconduct' refers primarily to academic misconduct in the course of taking an exam, or any assignment in which exam-like conditions are present. Franklin’s Testing Center team provides all students with parameters and restrictions which must be adhered to while taking any exam, and deviating from those restrictions may constitute an act of academic misconduct. Violations may include: 

• the use of restricted materials during an exam; 
• seeking online solutions to questions using their computer or handheld device;
• utilizing in-person assistance from a test proctor or other individual in the area.

If any suspicious behavior is witnessed by Testing Services, our online proctoring partner or an in-person test proctor, a violation report may be filed.

The Testing Center may file a violation report for a range of academic misconduct violations, including the following: 

• Copying, or attempting to copy exam content;
• Taking screenshots or photos of exam materials; 
• The test-taker who shows up for the exam session must be the correct individual. If the test-taker if found to be an imposter, a violation report may be filed; 
• Looking at someone else’s screen during an examination in the Testing Center is not permitted; 
• Students may not read or speak aloud in the examination room, unless they have an ADA accommodation which allows them to do so; 
• Unpermitted breaks are also not allowed for students without ADA accommodations; 
• Unpermitted virtual assistance is also a form of academic misconduct which may result in a violation report; 
• Lastly, failure to follow instructions provided by Testing Center staff may result in a violation report as well.

The use, storage, control, or possession of firearms, ammunition, deadly weapons or military ordnance of any kind on the University property or at University functions is expressly forbidden, including storing any said item in vehicles on campus.  Firearms are defined as:

• any gun, rifle, pistol, or handgun designed to fire bullets, BBs, pellets, or shots (including paintballs), regardless of the propellant used.

Sworn law enforcement officers, both plain clothed and uniformed officers, are permitted to carry a firearm on campus, on-duty or off-duty, if permitted by state law and Law Enforcement Department Policy. If you meet the above criteria and are required to carry a weapon as a result of your commission, you must first register with the Department of Safety and Security, and receive approval from the Executive Director of Safety & Security Services, or the CFO and VP, prior to carrying your weapon on campus and/or participating in any University activity.

Other weapons are defined as any instrument of combat or any object not designed as an instrument of combat but carried for the purpose of inflicting or threatening bodily injury.  Examples include, but are not limited to:

• knives with fixed blades or pocket knives with blades longer than three inches;
• razors, metal knuckles, blackjacks, hatchets, bows and arrows, nun chukkas, foils, or any explosive or incendiary device.

Possession of realistic replicas of weapons is also prohibited.

FUPE Faculty Best Practices

Because FUPEs are Franklin-created proficiency exams, it is important for faculty and staff to follow best practices created to maintain standardized equity amongst the Franklin University student population.

• FUPES should be created to assess prior knowledge and experience for course credit, not as an additional barrier to testing out of pre-requisite coursework.
• Grading policies and standards should be set at FUPE creation and not manipulated for any student populations.
• Large test banks, similar to publisher-created test banks, allow for a rotation of questions that minimize student academic misconduct and replication.
• When courses are redesigned, FUPES should be updated to align to any changes in learning outcomes or significant content changes.

Creation Process

Once a faculty member has determined a FUPE should be created to provide prior learning credit for a specific course, the faculty member in conjunction with lead faculty for the course will create an appropriate learning measurement as their FUPE.

Below is the current list of FUPE evaluators. If a FUPE is newly created or any updates occur to current evaluators, this list will need to be updated with the Testing Center.

Linked here is the current list of FUPE course equations, passing scores, time limits, and fees. If a FUPE is newly created or any updates occur to the current course equations list, this list will need to be updated with the Testing Center. FUPE fees are set up to incur a $20 fee per credit hour.

Creating FUPE tests in Canvas

Once a FUPE’s content has been solidified, it will need to be imported into Canvas (using Respondus 4.0) for student access. Dedicated course shells in Canvas will be created for FUPEs for each subject area. The Testing Center Specialist will assist in this process.

The questions can be imported from publisher test banks or created by faculty members. Questions can be manually added directly into Canvas or uploaded in bulk from Word documents. A guide to formatting questions in Word documents for bulk upload into Canvas using Respondus 4.0 is available in the testing center upon request.

Creating New Codes for Colleague

A new FUPE code will need to be created in Colleague for scores to be entered in TSUM and credit to be awarded. See Testing Center for detailed process.

Approval Process

Lead faculty members have historically created and approved respective course FUPE exams.

Maintenance

After a student registers to take a FUPE with the Testing Center, the Testing Center will add the student to the appropriate Canvas course shell. The student will be given 90 days to complete the FUPE.

The student may choose to test in person at the Testing Center, with a distance proctor, or online with our online proctoring vendor. If a student chooses to test with our online proctoring vendor, a single-user exam will be created for the student. Tests are not activated in our online proctoring vendor in the same way as class tests, or students will be able to take them without paying the fee for the FUPE.

Scoring and Pay

When the student has finished the exam, the associated faculty should receive a notification from Speedgrader in Canvas that an exam has been taken. The faculty member will then review the exam and manually grade any answers, if needed. Full-time faculty members do not receive additional pay for grading FUPE exams. Part-time faculty members will receive $15 per credit hour for their respective FUPE course exam.

After the exam has been graded, the faculty will email the score to the testing center. The Testing Center will input the score into Colleague and notify the student of the score via email. Then the student will be removed from the FUPE course shell.

Learning Outcomes

As part of the course redesign process, FUPEs should be re-evaluated by faculty to confirm they match current course learning outcomes and content. Questions can be individually matched to course learning outcomes in Canvas if desired. Faculty will need to associate each question with the applicable outcomes when creating the exam, and the Testing Center will add the outcomes to each question manually in Canvas.