Exam submissions and home exams

• The exam dates and the submission deadlines are available on the front page of StudentWeb under «Upcoming events» as well as in the course catalogue.
• The submission room for essays and portfolio exams will be visible in the exam system WISEflow no later than three days before the deadline. An e-mail will be sent onceit is possible to submit.
• For home exams the exam question will be made available in WISEflow when the exam is scheduled to start. For essays and other exams that strecth over the semester, the exam question will be made available in Canvas.

• Exams must be submitted electronically in the digital exam system WISEflow unless otherwise stated in the course catalogue or Canvas.

• You can log on to WISEflow at any time and submit a demo exam as many times as you like (see the user guide for more).
• Use a recently updated web browser. Do not use Internet Explorer.
• Note that it is only possible to submit PDF-files. A general guide on how to convert files to PDF is available here.
• We would appreciate if you state your candidate number (in the introduction). You can find it on StudentWeb.
• You will be asked to agree on an academic integrity commitment statement after you have uploaded your exam paper (click below for bigger text).

• Note that MF is using a plagiarism checker. The examiners will receive a plagiarism report on your submission. It is therefore crucial that you refer to sources correctly, both in the running text and the bibliography. See the resources for academic writing below.

• Keep calm. It will solve itself as long as you follow these guidelines:
• If you have enough time, double check the information above and in the user guide. Refreshing the submission page or logging in to WISEflow again will often solve the issue.
• If you can't find the solution, contact the exam office (exam@mf.no). Is the submission deadline is close, include the the submission file as an attachment.
• Late submissions are normally rejected, so it is very important to do this as fast as possible.
• Do not contact teachers. They can not help you with technical issues.

Your submission must be anonymous. Do not write your name anywhere, including in the file name.

Use the font Times New Roman, spacing 1.5 and font size 12 (10 in footnotes), and otherwise normal margins and consistent use of headings. Your submission should also include information about:

• Course code and semester (for instance "TEOL2725 Spring 2023")
• Word count (excluding front page, table of contents and bibliography. Footnotes do count.)
• Total page numbers on the cover page (and running page numbers in the footer)
• Title/research question/the question for the assignment
• Other information you may have been asked to supply, for example sub-discipline

We recommend using the template for exam submissions to ensure that these requirements are met.

Note that MF has the following rules for referencing:

• Relevant literature from the course should be used as source(s) in the answer. You can find the course literature in Leganto. Course literature can be supplemented with other literature.
• Exam essays and drafts for these essays may be exempt from this rule (consult the course responsible if it is unclear)
• Running references must be provided with page numbers if page numbers are available, for instane like this: Stoltenberg 2011, p. 214) .
• If page numbers are not available, use chapter/part and paragraph number, for instance like this: Stoltenberg 2011, ch. 1,1 par. 3. If the chapters are unnumbered you should use the name of the chapter instead. If the chapters are very long, you could use subchapter or subheader instead. The most important thing is to make it easy for the reader to verify the reference.

Resources for academic writing:

• The resources from the academic writing course is available on Canvas (Feide-login required). The video lectures and extra material covers writing theory, use of sources, etc.
• See Atle Søviks online writing course and lectures on referencing.
• The writing center offers MF-students help to improve their writing skills. More information is available here.
• See also the web sites Search and Write, and The Citation Compass for more information about academic writing. The Citation Compass has a particularly useful overview of how to refer to different types of sources in different citation systems.
• On very short exams (for instance eight hour home exams) the examiner will be a little more lenient when it comes to referencing. The normal rules will still aplly, so you should try to refer according to your style of reference, but it is more important that running references are made than that they are formulated correctly. The same applies for the literature list. It is however important that the requirements about relevant course literature and page numbers mentioned above this list are met.
• More guidelines are found in this document:

All individual written student work should be an independent effort. Submitting text without citing the source is considered cheating. Texts written by artificial intelligence (such as ChatGPT) are not the student's independent work. Moreover, AI-generated texts are poorly suited as sources.

As a general rule, MF recommends not using AI-generated texts in student work because:

• Texts written by artificial intelligence are not reliable sources of information. The information in the texts can be inaccurate, lack necessary nuances, or be outright wrong. If you use AI-generated text as a source, you can expect the examiner to consider it weak in terms of critical evaluation of sources.
• It is very difficult to trace where the information in an AI-generated text actually comes from. AI-generated texts may fail to reference the correct author or text. Sometimes, AI may cite the wrong source. Therefore, you cannot trust the references that come from AI.

Presenting text written by artificial intelligence as one's own work is considered cheating.

In some cases, it may be relevant to refer to AI-generated texts, for example, if the topic of the assignment is artificial intelligence. According to the APA referencing style, you should do it as follows:

Text

Attach the entire text you are quoting as an appendix. In the text, refer to the appendix when quoting. In the appendix, also include your part of the conversation so that it is clear why the AI provided the response it did.

Image

Create an image caption that includes which program you used and what you asked the AI to do.