FEES (and PRACTICES) FOR PROCTORED TEST - 2014


1	COLLEGE	Are you charging your online/hybrid students to take a proctored test? If so, how much? Are you charging your online/hybrid students to take a make-up test? If so, how much?	OTHER COMMENTS
2	EDMONDS	Students taking tests (written or computer-based) from other colleges will be charged a fee of $25 fee for the first hour of use and an additional $15 for each additional hour. There is no fee for EdCC students who need to use the Testing Center for a proctored test for an online class or a makeup test	eLearning contributes $15,000 a year to our Testing Center to assist with the workload. ($3750 per quarter)
3	EVERETT	No charge. Our math department requires f2f meetings for students, but they are the only department to do so. They have a blurb in the class schedule that students do not always get ( * Section OL (5906) On-campus attendance required from 7:20-9:30pm in RAI 300 for Orientation April 3; Exam 1 May 8; and Exam 2 June 12.). They also send out mailers. Regarding make-up test: No charge, instructors work this out within their own classes.	This is a non-issue, but departments seem to workaround it by allowing students to take proctored exams with their supervisors (Fire Science) or at public libraries.
4	LOWER COLUMBIA	At LCC Proctoring center – no charge At other Proctoring centers - there may be a charge that the student is responsible for Via ProcturU – students are responsible for the proctoring fee – fee dependent on length of test.	The only issue we have had is the hours of our own proctoring center are limited – hours are increasing starting spring. eLearning does not fund the Testing Center – they have their own operational budget.
5	PIERCE	Our testing center handles as scheduled proctoring and charge no fees to Pierce students. Students also work with us to arrange proctors at local organizations, like public libraries. We are piloting SmarterProctoring which embeds via LTI in Canvas that helps faculty describe exam proctoring requirements and students locate suitable proctors whose fees (if any) are handled between the two parties, not us. I am not sure of the volume at our testing center, but I am sure it has dropped over the years as we moved away from telecourses. I expect most faculty test with proctor requirements within the LMS or have one or two higher stakes exams that require proctoring. We would argue that our courses are state funded and request for added funding go through the district budget process to get state allocated resources, as opposed to student fee based funds. I could then be decided by the budget team that we support any added funding via our DL fee account, if we have resources (or can reprioritize current spending plans) to meet the need. I have had a couple try the Tegrity recording/proctoring option, but students seem intimidated by it or it is just too much hassle to get tech set and do a l practice run that faculty typically mandate.
6	SEATTLE CENTRAL	I’ve completely stopped supporting proctoring for eLearning courses. Instead, we support faculty in coming up with robust and frequent assessment that reduces the incentive for students to cheat. If faculty feel compelled to have proctored assessments, they need to make their own arrangements. The proctoring center at Central is too small to accommodate eLearning classes, so if faculty want to have a proctored exam, they have to line up a classroom and proctor it themselves.
7	SEATTLE NORTH	Faculty schedule evening times to proctor their own students. Students who cannot attend at those times make appointments at our e-learning support center (no charge at the moment). Our testing center does not proctor exams for our online courses due to lack of adequate staffing. Our testing center does charge students $12 per test for the exams they do proctor.
8	SEATTLE SOUTH	South faculty are responsible for directing their students to procotoring options (see link in comments field). FEE: There is NO FEE For "online self-proctoring" ONLINE: South's eLearning does not officially support any online proctoring tool. However, two online math faculty are using Panopto to provide online proctoring to their math students. SUPPORT: South online teachers are responsible for providing all proctoring instructions and training to their online students. SSC eLearning & TLC Director, Sara.Newman@SeattleColleges.edu	http://www.southseattle.edu/services/exam-proctoring.aspx
9	SHORELINE	No – current students may make an appointment with the testing center and have their test proctored for no charge. Non-SCC students pay $35 for up to 3 hours and $50 over 3 hours. We also have remote proctored tests using Tegrity (license through a textbook publisher) and offer students a quite space with a computer/web cam to take those tests in the eLearning Office or Library.	We are working with the Testing Center to reimburse them for costs of proctoring exams for online students.
10	TACOMA	We encourage faculty to eliminate proctored testing in favor of more comprehensive assessment, but there are still many that proctor exams (math and the sciences in particular). eLearning staff at TCC don't typically proctor exams. For the instructors that require proctoring for full online courses, we have these options: 1. Students can take it in the testing center. We developed an MOU with the testing center to charge eLearning $5 per student tested. 2. The instructor can use the dropbox feature in Panopto. 3. The instructor sets up a time in a classroom to proctor the students. We’ve had biology instructors coordinate times to proctor multiple sections of students for all of finals week. Each instructor is in the room for part of the time and they trade off all week. 4. We setup a student-pay contract with Proctor U. Faculty can choose to use any one or combination of those options. We do not charge students, althgough if the instructor and student choose to use the student-pay ProctorU option, the student will pay.	eLearning pays around $1000 a year to our testing center for proctoring.
11	WENATCHEE VALLEY	We charge $25 per test for none WVC students (those who are taking none WVC courses.) It’s free for WVC Students. The charge is the same for face-to-face, hybrid or fully online students. No charge if they are WVC students otherwise the fee is $25. http://www.wvc.edu/directory/departments/distance/proctor.asp
12	YAKIMA VALLEY	We do not charge our local students to take a test, that is included in the lab fees they pay when enrolling. We do charge $35 for student from other institutions to take a test in our proctor lab.