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The universities of the Community of Madrid keep the summons for end-of-course face-to- face exams waiting for the alarm situation decreed by the coronavirus to change. However, the six public and seven private higher education centers have reached an agreement with the regional government on the alternatives that would be applied in the event that the concentration of students in a classroom in June or even in July was not possible. for health reasons.

Among them is its replacement by online tests with timed time . In this case there would be three modalities: random short questions in which the student must reason the answer; battery of multiple choice questions ; and a test type part and a writing part, with a password to enter and without the possibility of going backwards once each part has started.

In addition, it is proposed to carry out oral exams at a distance with direct interaction between the teacher and the student. "They will be carried out by means of a conference articulating the recording and custody system," specifies the extraordinary measures agreement signed for the end of the 2019-2020 academic year due to the exceptional situation caused by Covid-19.

Lastly, it opens up the possibility of applying a continuous evaluation in which the sum of activities and projects carried out could be taken into account or, "depending on the characteristics of the subject", add a specific final test such as questionnaires, practical cases or reports. To ensure its reliability, the instruction here is that the process is complemented by an open-camera interview between the teacher and the "duly identified" student, in which it is verified that their answers and arguments coincide with the work presented.

The Councilor for Universities, Eduardo Sicilia, stressed that this agreement will allow students to be graded in a "fair way" taking into account "the exceptional situation". "We can be satisfied that we have obtained a mechanism that allows us to contemplate all possible situations," he said.

At the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, the Madrid universities already agreed to delay their school calendar by 15 days . Later it was also decided to postpone the Assessment for University Access (EvAU) for one month, which in principle has been set for July 6, 7 and 8 in ordinary call and September 8, 9 and 10 in the extraordinary one.

Now it has also been established that, regardless of the evolution of the pandemic, classroom classes will not be resumed this year . There would only be exceptions if the alarm system allowed it in laboratory subjects, clinical rotations and regulated external practices, although it is also considered to take them for granted if the student has completed between 60% and 80% - depending on the case- of the program.

There will be no more classes in the classroom

In addition, the possibility is contemplated that university students who have volunteered or have been hired to give support in the face of the shortage of health personnel in the face of the coronavirus may have this work validated as a university practice "provided that the competencies "of it. In the case of degrees related to professions of "special relevance for the improvement of the state of alarm", such as health or psychology, each hour or credit developed during the crisis will be considered double "to thus recognize extraordinary work social that has meant the professional practice carried out ".

In the case of students who were on Erasmus or in some other international program when the coronavirus crisis broke out, they can be evaluated if they have completed at least 75% of the credits or hours taught at the destination university, either in person or remotely. In the final degree and master's degree projects and in the doctoral theses, remote defense will be allowed.

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