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Photo by Lukas Blazek on Unsplash As a Swedish university, Lund University needs to ensure that students with disabilities find themselves in a comparable situation with other students. Course coordinators or examiners may need to make adjustments so that the digital teaching and examination is accessible to students with a disability. Some students may have a disability that impairs working memor

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/importance-extended-writing-time - 2026-07-01

In a master’s course in commercial theory where the regular exam was conducted in writing in a physical classroom before the pandemic, the re-examinations were conducted orally via Zoom Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash The course had about 20 students and to emulate the design of the physical exam, the exam was performed in two parts. The students were given different start times for t

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/oral-examination-zoom - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. “I’m committed to the students and their education and I want to make the best I can with the help of the tools we have at our disposal”, says Igor Martins, teacher at School of Economics and Management, Lund University. Since Igor is such a popular teacher he was asked to share his best tips for teaching. Igor was as

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/tips-using-digital-tools-your-course-teacher-year - 2026-07-01

At the School of Economics, Per Jochumzen teaches courses on mathematics and microeconomics. He believes that there are major challenges around how to handle cheating in areas where students’ knowledge cannot be tested through, for example, essays. Peter writes: In my opinion, the biggest challenge with home exams is to prevent cheating. This especially applies to situations where you want to eval

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/creating-conditions-avoid-cheating - 2026-07-01

When using quizzes you might want to adjust the points to make them better match what the student deserve. Photo by Ben White on Unsplash Inflexibility Many of us are using the quiz function in Canvas, both for allowing students to practice and for exams. Canvas uses a rather inflexible way of automatically grading the answers in most cases – either the answers are completely correct or all wrong!

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/using-quizzes-give-your-students-points-they-deserve - 2026-07-01

During the pandemic, when the majority of students needed to take exams in an online environment, many teachers wished to monitor the exam via camera surveillance in Zoom. This may only be needed at certain occasions in the future, and there are many different ways to handle this. Here, Karin Bergman from the Department of Economics, has written about how they did it during the pandemic. Foto: Pat

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/heres-what-we-did-monitoring-zoom-0 - 2026-07-01

As long as we need to examine remotely, we will need to examine in partly new ways. There are no methods for "translating" an on-campus examination into an identical remote examination, but rather, different forms of examination cope with the transition to varying degrees. Photo by pan xiaozhen on Unsplash Exam hall and home examinations Home examinations and essays are among the kinds of examinat

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/better-course-formative-examination - 2026-07-01

Many teachers would probably agree that it is an art to write good multiple choice questions. Multiple Choice Questions or MCQ are so-called closed questions, where the answering person gets to choose from a number of given answer options instead of formulating an answer themselves. Photo by Dan Asaki on Unsplash Text by Ann-Catrin Johansson, LTH  MCQ When creating your multiple choice questions,

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/art-formulating-mcq-quiz - 2026-07-01

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash The pandemic has made us test alternatives to our traditional exam methods, alternatives that work digitally and on remote. Some of these alternatives are worth keeping also when we head back to traditional, on campus, teaching. One thing we have learned the past years is that remote surveillance is problematic (no guarantee it works 100%) and limiting students’

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/digital-open-book-exam-flexible-option - 2026-07-01

Hans Knutsson, senior lecturer in business economy at EHL, describes the experiences he and his colleagues have had with online exams and the use of Canvas New Quizzes. Photo by Honey Yanibel Minaya Cruz on Unsplash  At the School of Economics, where I work as a senior lecturer in business administration, we have spent the last two years working on switching platforms to Canvas. We started early a

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/quizzes-question-banks-and-random-draws - 2026-07-01

What is Zoom-bombing and how can you protect yourself? Photo by Ryan Quintal on Unsplash As the e-meeting tool, Zoom, was becoming more frequently used, it was also subject to more and more infringements. Visits from unauthorised guests who disturb meetings by sharing unpleasant pictures or writing inappropriate texts in the chat are called Zoom-bombing. As a lecturer at Lund University, you can p

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/are-you-afraid-being-zoom-bombed - 2026-07-01

On courses where students often work in groups and need to meet online, using Zoom and its breakout rooms may seem cumbersome, in which case you may use Teams – an alternative to Zoom that is integrated into the Canvas learning platform. At the Faculty of Science’s Department of Biology, Christoffer Johansson is a lecturer on a course where students often work in groups. After trying various digit

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/managing-online-group-exercises-teams - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Take your chance to attend this online conference on the use of image and sound for learning in higher education. Free for LU staff! Managing and innovating video-based services in Higher Education The Media & Learning Association organizes a conference twice a year. The conference is aimed for university staff (resea

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/online-conference-media-learning - 2026-07-01

Are you unsure about the rules concerning remote exams? Here you will find information, tips and advice on the rules that apply. General information  On the Staff Pages, you will find information on:  Remote exams Personal data and data protection in connection with remote exams Students in need of learning support Archiving in connection with digital exams How other universities do it – examinati

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/lecturers-exam-anxiety - 2026-07-01

Studying at university can be quite different from many students’ expectations if all teaching is digital. Being a new student in a solely digital learning environment can make it challenging to get to know other students and lecturers, to be part of a social context and to feel a sense of belonging to Lund University, which comes more naturally on campus. There is not a world of difference in ter

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/interactivity-communication-and-engagement-online-courses - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A new joint report from the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) presents the largest venture ever on precision medicine in diabetes. The report includes a detailed overview and roadmap for how this new approach to diabetes medicine can be evaluated and impl

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/roadmap-precision-medicine-diabetes-care - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The research group Nutritional Epidemiology has started a blog, www.nutrition.blogg.lu.se! Esther González-Padilla tells us more about it. ​​​​​What is the blog about?We have started the blog mostly as a tool to inform people, within and outside Lund University, about the news of our group, our projects and activities

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-blog-about-nutriton - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Karin Stenkula, Emily Sonestedt and Sebastian Kalamajski have received grants from the The Bo and Kerstin Hjelt Diabetes Foundation. Read about their research projects here. Karin Stenkula, Lund University Diabetes Centre:EHD2: a novel candidate essential for lipid transport and overall glucose homeostasisObesity is o

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/hjelt-foundations-grant-holders-2020 - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A new COVID-19 antibody test developed by scientists at Lund University in Sweden has shown robust performance upon clinical validation and application. The test detects antibodies in the blood targeting the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, and determines in just 15 minutes whether a person has had COVID-19, regardless of

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-rapid-and-robust-covid-19-antibody-test-developed - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Last week it was announced that our longtime colleague and LUDC researcher/SUS clinician Martin Ridderstråle has been appointed Senior Vice President of Patient Care in the Novo Nordisk Foundation. This is not only a remarkable achievement by Martin but also goes to show that our environment fosters excellent scientis

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/senior-vice-president-patient-care-novo-nordisk-foundation - 2026-07-01