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In the extraordinary session of the Governing Council held this morning, the University of Murcia has approved the extraordinary Regulation for the urgent adaptation of the assessment and revision instruments and procedures for their non-attendance modality in the June and July sessions of the course 2019/2020 due to the health crisis situation caused by the COVID-19 disease. This standard has been developed by the General Secretariat and the Vice-Rector's Office for Strategy and Digital University and is intended to adapt the evaluation systems and procedures to the extraordinary circumstances resulting from the health crisis, evidenced, singularly, in the replacement of the evaluation through tests, exercises and exams that involve attendance by modalities of realization at a distance. This regulation will be applicable to all aptitude tests for the evaluation of students within official university studies and corresponding to the June and July calls for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Except for an express extension, it will automatically expire and will cease to produce effects at the end of this academic year. The regulation specifies the instructions for carrying out the tests and the necessary tools.

The text includes that any incident that occurs in connection with the connection or electronic means, for reasons beyond the student's control, will generate the right to attend the call for incidents of each center.

To avoid these situations, the regulation urges students to check their means and report any previous incident to the Attica User Service Center (CAU) at least five days before the test. Likewise, the Governing Council has approved the contingency plans of the Faculties of Labor Sciences and Law, which include the modifications to the academic calendar and the alternative evaluation systems. On the other hand, the Manager of the University of Murcia, José Antonio Cascales, has reported on several economic issues, among which the multi-annual expense stands out to contract the annual license for plagiarism detection software TURNITIN, for a total amount of 96,800 euros.

Source: Universidad de Murcia