Take-home examinations, assignments/theses and portfolios

Take-home examinations, assignments/theses, and portfolios are different forms of unsupervised assessment.
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Transition from Inspera to WISEflow

From autumn 2026, all exams and submissions will be conducted in WISEflow.

  • 🖥️ Get to know WISEflow

    We recommend that you complete a demo test before the exam so you can test your computer and become familiar with WISEflow. The demo test ‘FLOWassign’ shows how a home exam/assignment submission will normally take place

    How to do a demo test in WISEflow:

    • Log in to WISEflow.
    • Click the button «Demo flows» at the bottom of the web page, find «FLOWassign» and click «Try out demo».

    🖥️ Preparations before take-home examinations

    Before your home exam, make sure your computer is ready and take a moment to get familiar with WISEflow

    • Make sure your computer works properly and has all software updated before the exam. This helps you avoid unexpected automatic updates during the exam.
    • Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome are the recommended browsers.
    • Home exams are normally written outside of WISEflow and then uploaded. As a student at Nord University, you have access to Office 365, which includes Microsoft Word for writing your assignment. 
    • Assignments are often provided in PDF format. Therefore, it’s important that you have a program installed on your computer that can open and read PDF files.
    • Make sure you have a stable internet connection at home. If you are on campus, you can connect to the wireless network (eduroam).
    • Students must log in to WISEflow using their FEIDE account. Make sure your FEIDE account works before the exam. You can test this by logging in to WISEflow or Canvas. If you have any issues with your password, you can create a new one through the Self‑Service Portal.


    🔢 Candidate number

    The candidate number ensures anonymity. You'll find this information in your Studentweb, on the front page under 'Upcoming events' or 'My active courses'.

    🖥️ Withdraw submission / change file after submission

    You may change your assignment up until due date. After you have submitted, a button named "Withdraw submission" will appear below 3. Submit.
    1. Withdraw submission
    2. Delete the uploaded file
    3. Upload new file
    4. Click Submit

  • Guidance for bachelor's thesis can be provided, adapted to the level and scope of the thesis. Unless othervise stated, the assigmment is normally published in Canvas, and should be submitted in WISEflow at 2pm on the date given in Studentweb.

    Information on submissiond and publishing your thesis: Submission of master's thesis | Nord.no


    🔢 Candidate number

    The candidate number ensures anonymity. You'll find this information in your Studentweb, on the front page under 'Upcoming events' or 'My active courses'. Some bachelor's theses require your name, check with your course responsible.

    👥 Group submission

    Instructions for creating groups in WISEflow are found in the section below. Please note that if you write alone, you must create a One-Person Group.

    All group members are jointly and severally responsible for the content of the written answer and the entirety of what is submitted. This means that any suspicion of cheating will apply to all group members.

    🧾 Thesis title

    The title for the bachelor's thesis shall be registered in WISEflow when submitting it to appear on your diploma. An english title is optional, but it must be entered if you wish to have an english title displayed on the english diploma supplement (DS).

    🧾 Cover Template

    Use a cover page template from Nord University for bachelor's and master's theses. For take-home examinations and assignments, it is not mandatory to use the templates.

    🧾  Receipt for Submitted Assignment

    • Under submission status, you can see the submission time.
    • A receipt can be sent by clicking "Request receipt".

    🖥️ Withdraw submission / change file after submission

    You may change your assignment up until due date. After you have submitted, a button named "Withdraw submission" will appear below 3. Submit.
    1. Withdraw submission
    2. Delete the uploaded file
    3. Upload new file
    4. Click Submit

  • 👥Create Group with Multiple Members

    One member creates the group and invites the others before submission. It is not possible to add new members after a submission has been made.

    • Click "Form group" in WISEflow.
    • Enter the group name (e.g. "Biology Brains"). The group name is not visible to examiners on anonymous exams.
    • Invite participants by looking up their names. 
      • Only participants who are registered for the exam can be found in the search.
      • A person cannot be a member of more than one group.

    👥 Confirm a Group Invitation

    • Group members will receive an invitation that must be confirmed.
    • The confirmation is done by clicking "Form group" in the dialog box. 

    👤 Create One-Person Group

    If individual submissions are allowed in addition to group submissions, select "Create one‑person group".

    👥 Submission of the Group Assignment

    • When all invitations have been accepted, the assignment can be submitted.
    • Only one shared submission is delivered on behalf of the entire group. Write the candidate numbers of all members on the front page of the assignment.
    • All members can submit, not only the person who created the group.
    • The person who submits must always click "Click here to submit"!

    👥 Receipt for Submitted Assignment

    • Under submission status, you can see the submission time.
    • A receipt can be sent by clicking "Request receipt".
    • Each participant must request the receipt themselves if everyone wants a copy.

    👥 More Information on Group Submissions

    Guide from WISEflow: Learn how to form a group and submit a group paper to WISEflows.

  • When submitting an assessment, it should be submitted as a combined document in PDF text format, unless otherwise stated in the course description or the question text.

    🧾Convert a word document to PDF

    Select "Save as PDF" or 
    click "Print" and select "to PDF".

    The conversion to PDF must not be done by printing the assessment and then scanning it. This may turn the document into image(s) within a PDF format.

    🧾 Merge two or more PDF documents

    Merge your assignments to one PDF with free software such as www.sejda.com/merge-PDF (3 tasks per day)

    🧾 Scan documents with your phone

    As an alternative to your mobile camera, you can use an app, e.g. Office Lens from Microsoft, to take pictures and scan documents or hand drawings. The app enables you to crop and edit pictures of documents, and save them as pdf or jpg. If you save them as pdf and send the to your e-mail, you can easily merge several pdfs into one pdf as described above.

    Office Lens is available for iOS and Android.

  • Use a cover page template from Nord University for bachelor and master theses, take-home examinations and assignments. 

  • ​Students are obliged to familiarise themselves with the Guidelines for Examination Candidates.​​ 

    Please note paragraphs 26-29 Referencing and plagiarism:

    26. Nord University performs plagiarism checks of submitted written works. All aids are generally allowed for submissions. However, it is not allowed to collaborate on individual submissions. Examination candidates must therefore be cautious with discussions about the task text that can result in similarities in content, structure, language, interpretation, and evaluations in the answer. The answer must be designed by the individual candidate alone, and similarity can be an expression of unauthorized collaboration that can be considered as cheating.

    27. When submitting written work, all sources must be stated both in the text itself and in a complete bibliography, unless otherwise specified in the task text. For direct transcripts, it should be clearly marked with indentation and italics or similar, and there should be a source reference with a specified page reference. Information about correct source usage and references can be found here: Citing sources and referencing. Insufficient source references and references can be considered as plagiarism and will be treated as cheating/attempted cheating.

    28. It is stated in the course description whether the exam answer should be answered individually or in a group.

    29. Generating an answer using ChatGPT or similar artificial intelligence and submitting it wholly or partially as one's own answer is considered cheating unless otherwise stated for the specific exam.



Updated
06.07.2026
Updated by
Student Records and Examinations Office

​​Contact Student Records and Examinations Office:

Phone: +47 75 51 71 10
E-mail: exam@nord.no