Dear All,
   Topic: Exam1-Gerbessiotis    (amended)
          but also (hopefully)
          Exam2-Gerbessiotis
          and also Exam3 (paper exam, sections as applicable)
0. An OARS request generates a paper exam. Contact /Visit OARS for exam taking.
1. Else show up in the classroom at the designated time for exam taking.
2. Read Document 3 (available in Canvas Announcements). 
3. ITEMS ALLOWED : (a) and (b) are hardware, (c) software-oriented.
  (a) THE EXAM TAKING LAPTOP for Exam1 and Exam 2 only, 
  which must have enough energy to last for the duration of the exam,
  (b) a calculator (device), which is optional, 
  compatible with MATH classes; no software calculators,
  (c) ONLY one app and one browser WINDOW  
  in the laptop should be active and connected just to canvas.njit.edu
  for Exam1 and Exam2 only.

  Failure of strict adherence to 3(a)(b)(c) your exam gets immediately a zero and Syllabus applies. 

  ITEMS NOT ALLOWED: Everything and anything else including,

  (d) NO food, NO drinks in the exam room per NJIT regulations,
  (e) NO OTHER items on the table or floating around but in backpack/bag,
  (f) Mobile phones, mobile or not devices, including wearables
  connected to phones or to networks  (e.g. iwatch) SHOULD NOT 
  BE ON YOU or on the exam table.  They must be powered down
  (equivalent to removing the battery) and put securely in 
  a backpack or bag. The backpack/bag should be closed/zippered.
  Read the Syllabus clause on devices.
  This includes hearing aids or hearing attachments. 
  (You should have requested  permission for their use through the Dean 
  of Students.)  FOOD/DRINKS are not allowed per NJIT regulations.
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NO STUDENT is ALLOWED TO LEAVE the ROOM before END of CLASS TIME.
FOR EXAM 3 the 'leave the exam room' policy might be different.
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The rest of this email should be familiar from Doc 0, Doc 3
and applies only to the canvas-based Exam1 and Exam 2.
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4.  The exam link will be published in canvas early on Monday.
    The exam link will be  ***visible***   then.
    The exam link will be  ***clickable*** then. 
    The Exam will NOT  be  ***viewable***  yet. 
    The Exam will NOT  be  ***doable ***   yet. 
(If you click  on the link you might get an authentication error.)
5.  The Exam will be ***viewable*** and ***doable ***
  (a) after Available-From time (canvas setting) 
      has been reached,  and
  (b) after you enter the classroom, 
      you power on your laptop, 
      you use the browser to connect to canvas,
      click on the exam in Quizzes in canvas, and 
      you type in the password given to you by the instructor 
      (it will be written inside a drawn rectangular
      box at the start of the class and it is case sensitive).

Exam time starts then (completion of step (b) usually within 5 minutes
of the start of class) and a countdown is visible in the canvas 
quiz/exam area (at the top of a possibly scrollable page).

6.  From that point on, the exam completes in one of three 
possible ways, WHICHEVER OCCURS FIRST, and as long as any 
credentials of yours do not expire 
(this is based on info communicated by IST),

  (i) YOU press a  SUBMIT button in canvas and submit your answers,
      [YOU HAVE ONLY ONE SUBMIT OPPORTUNITY]

 (ii) the canvas COUNTDOWN has reached 0  (time limit expiration),

(iii) AVAILABLE-UNTIL event has been triggered 
      (and exam ceases to be available).

Based on Canvas behavior communicated to me by IST, in cases 
(ii) and (iii) canvas ordinarily autosubmits. 
In case (i) you initiate a SUBMIT event.

If your myUCID password expires sometime during the exam or after
a prior NJIT authentication, Canvas MAY NOT BE ABLE TO AUTOSUBMIT.
This is the reason you were instructed at the start of the semester
to reset / renew your credentials (myUCID login+password).