Hi Everyone,

I'm not sure how to easily ask this question or whether what I am about to share will make sense, but I figure it's worth a shot.

I teach a statistical literacy course that sometimes has up to 1000 students per semester.  This summer, I have about 315 students.  I have set things up so that our online midterm and final exams will each consist of 25 multiple-choice questions.  Our midterm exam is next week, and I set up several question groups to pull random questions from many question banks so as to hopefully present each student with a somewhat unique exam.  For each question on the quiz, there are essentially between two to four different versions of that question that might be selected for each student.

There is a particular window of time in which the exam will be available for students to take.  They have from 12 a.m. on Wednesday until 12 p.m on Thursday to complete the exam.  Once they start the exam, they must finish in 90 minutes. I am not using webcams or any type of proctoring service.  Questions will be presented one a time to students, and students have been advised that they can use any notes they want but cannot confer with other people during the exam.  Each exam is just a small percentage of the overall grade so as to hopefully discourage academic misconduct.  

Here is my dilemma...Every semester, no matter what, we always run into issues where some students just cannot be available during our exam window to take the exam.  In some cases, they can be available very soon after, and it's no problem for me to simply delay sharing feedback with the rest of the class and simply extend the window for a few days to those students who have conflicts.  My issue is how to best handle a situation where a student might not be able to take an exam for a week or more after the rest of the class has taken it.  If I have released grades and feedback to the rest of the class, what can I do for the student who needs to complete a make-up exam?  I think I'm struggling to figure this out because the grade in Carmen is tied to the original exam I set up.  It's not like I can easily create a whole new exam in Carmen for the student who needs to make up the exam and then have that student's grade be automatically sent to the grade book, could I?

Again, I hope this makes sense.  I'm just wondering if there is a workaround of some kind.  Could I set up a special make-up exam as a practice exam for a student and then just take the grade the student gets on that exam and manually enter it into the grade book?  I feel a student who takes the exam well after the rest of the class might need a whole new set up questions simply because the original exam questions will be out there and will have likely been talked about.  However, maybe I'm thinking about this in the wrong way.

Thank you for any advice you might have to share!

Michelle