The government has introduced new restrictions starting 9th December. This will have impact on teaching and exam activities at Aarhus University. Students and staff will be asked to work from home in the period 9th December until 7th February (both days included). The upcoming exams - including exams in January and the reexams in February - will as far as possible be conducted as take-home or online Zoom exams. In special cases – where take-home or online exams are not possible – exams may be conducted as on-site exams.
The new Covid-19 restrictions will also include students, who are enrolled in degree programmes at Aarhus BSS in Herning from Friday December 11 at 16 o'clock.
We are working on creating an overview of the coming exam period. Please keep informed here at the FAQ and on Blackboard.
You will be informed on an ongoing basis via your AU email and Blackboard. You can also find current information for students at Aarhus BSS on this page. In AU’s FAQ for students, you can find information that applies to all AU students.
You can now follow the current COVID-19 infection rate at Aarhus BSS, as we have chosen to publish the status of COVID-19 cases among students that are reported via the online form at Aarhus University.
Read the current infection numbers hereWinter exams 2020/21
All written on-site exams scheduled to be held on Wednesday December 9, Thursday December 10 and Friday December 11 will be conducted without any changes in the form and time of the exam. In other words, your written on-site exam with physical attendance on these days will continue to take place as a written on-site exam with physical attendance. All oral exams are conducted online via Zoom with the same time of examination as originally planned. You will receive additional information about this via Blackboard.
As of Saturday December 12, all other exams - including exams in January and the reexams in February - will as far as possible be converted to home exams or be conducted online via Zoom.
If you have previously withdrawn from an exam because you were unable to take part in on-site exams due to circumstances in connection with Covid-19 , you are now able to re-register for your online exam by writing a mail to bachelor.bss@au.dk, kandidat.bss@au.dk or evu.bss@au.dk.
The new Covid-19 restrictions will also include students, who are enrolled in degree programmes at Aarhus BSS in Herning from Friday December 11 at 16 o'clock.
We will continuously update this page with information about future exams.
If you are unable to participate in an exam on an equal footing with other students due to the current Covid-19 restrictions, you will be given an opportunity to take a re-exam. The exam will not count as an extra examination attempt if you can document that restrictions related to Covid-19 s prevented you from participating in the regularly scheduled exam.
The university will carry out a concrete assessment of your situation, and will take into account relevant circumstances, for example:
Contact Aarhus BSS Studies Administration via the following email bachelor.bss@au.dk, kandidat.bss@au.dk or evu.bss@au.dk. Please attach the documentation mentioned above.
If you are unable to participate in an exam due to illness, the question/answer “I have fallen ill and cannot take the exam” in this FAQ can help you.
If you fall ill in connection with an exam at Aarhus BSS, you should report sick by submitting an application for dispensation via mitstudie.au.dk. This applies regardless of whether it is a Covid-19-related illness or some other illness.
As a general rule:
You can read more about what to do if you are ill during an exam on this page.
Aarhus BSS conducts all exams with physical attendance in accordance with the guidelines from the Danish Health Authority on distancing, hygiene, etc. Once these conditions have been met, according to the authorities' guidelines it is safe to attend.
As a rule, you should therefore attend the exam just as your fellow students.
Naturally, you are very welcome to bring your own protective equipment to the exam if you find it necessary or advisable.
In exceptional circumstances, you can apply for dispensation for specific initiatives in connection with the completion of your exam, e.g. a private room or similar. If your doctor considers this necessary, you should apply for dispensation via mitstudie.au.dk by no later than 10 days before your exam. Remember to attach relevant documentation from your doctor.
Aarhus BSS conducts all exams with physical attendance in accordance with the guidelines from the Danish Health Authority on distancing, hygiene, etc. Once these conditions have been met, according to the authorities' guidelines it is safe to attend.
This means that you are required to attend the exam just as your fellow students. Naturally, you are very welcome to bring your own protective equipment to the exam if you find it necessary or advisable.
If you are abroad, and you cannot be present in Denmark at the time of the exam due to the arrival and quarantine rules in connection with Covid-19, the following rules apply.
Oral exam or oral defence
If you are taking a oral examination or an oral defence but you are unable to participate due to a stay abroad, you must submit an application for dispensation via mitstudie.au.dk by no later than 10 days before the oral examination or defence. Remember to enclose relevant documentation confirming that you are abroad at the time of the exam. This may be a personal statement, plane ticket, etc.
We will then investigate whether there is any academic and practical way to offer you your oral exam or oral defence online via Zoom. Please note that the online exam may be either at the same time as originally planned for your physical examination or at another relevant time or day. You will be contacted by the department responsible for the exam or the defence.
Written exam with physical attendance
If you are taking a written on-site exam at Aarhus BSS but you are unable to participate due to a stay abroad, you must submit an application for dispensation via mitstudie.au.dk by no later than 10 days before the written on-site exam. Remember to enclose relevant documentation confirming that you are abroad at the time of the exam. This may be a personal statement, plane ticket, etc.
You can apply to be deregistered from your written exam and you can participate in the next re-examination without using up an examination attempt.
Written home assignment
If your exam is a written home test, you can participate on an equal footing with other students.
If you experience technical problems on the day of the exam, the guidelines below apply. You must follow these guidelines if you cannot log on to Zoom and get access to the waiting room well in advance of the start of the exam and if you experience technical problems during the exam, which prevent you from completing the exam.
AU’s rules on cheating at exams are the same as always. The university trusts that you as a student want to earn your grades honestly, and we expect you to familiarise yourself with the rules and follow them while taking exams in the new online formats.
Here are some issues you should be particularly aware of.
We recommend that you familiarise yourself with the exam schedule, which you find on your study portal under the menu item “Examination”. Here you can find out how your specific exam will be administered and whether or not aids are permitted in the exam.
If your exam takes place online, it can be a good idea to prepare yourself for an exam that will take place in completely new physical surroundings. Particularly oral online exams will be a unfamiliar format for most students. For that reason, it would be a good idea to practice the exam format as part of your preparation - preferably with a fellow student or your study group. It is all about making sure you feel comfortable with the format and the technical aspects. This will allow you focus on the academic content during the exam.
Here are some tips for how you can prepare yourself for your online exam.
You can read more about digital exams on your study portal under the menu items “Examination” and “Digital Exam”. Among other things, you will find an FAQ page with the most important questions and answers.
If your written on-site exam has been converted into a take-home assignment, it will be administered as an ordinary take-home assignment (WHAI) in WISEflow. See the guidelines for take-home assignments here.
If you have been granted additional time for an on-site exam that has now been converted into a take-home assignment of the same duration, the additional time will be added to your take-home assignment. Before the day of the exam, please check that the additional time is registered correctly in Wiseflow. If it is not registered correctly, you must contact the studies administration as soon as possible at bachelor.bss@au.dk or kandidat.bss@au.dk.
Update January 15th: As a general rule, classes at Aarhus BSS will take place online until the end of March. This decision has been made in order to provide you with the greatest possible degree of predictability and best quality of teaching in the first months of the spring semester. On-site classes with physical attendance may only take place in exceptional cases where online teaching is not an option – for example in a clinical setting, in labs and in workshops. In these cases, you will be informed directly about the on-site teaching via Blackboard. Aarhus BSS will strictly adhere to all social distancing and hygiene guidelines in these cases.
Update January 15th: All introduction activities will take place online in the spring semester 2021. You can keep up-to-date on your introduction activities on your study portal at ‘Introduction week’ and here at the FAQ.
AU Library’s libraries are closed to the public – provisionally through 7 february 2021.
However, it will still be possible to turn in and borrow materials for use in connection with research and teaching. Materials can be picked up and dropped off at
The Royal Danish Library at Victor Albecks Vej 1.
Read more on the Royal Danish library website.
You can continue to use the electronic resources at library.au.dk, and you also currently have free access to a number of resources from different publishing houses, who, exceptionally, are making their material available free of charge for a limited period.
You are welcome to contact the library if you need help.
If you have symptoms of COVID-19 (such as fever, coughing, sore throat, headache, muscle aches and breathing difficulties), you must stay away from campus. If you start having symptoms while you’re on campus, go home as quickly as possible. Then you must:
Also read the Danish Health Authority’s brochure for people with COVID-19 symptoms.
AU encourages you to use the official contact tracing app smitte|stop, which is designed to support more distant/peripheral contract tracing. Read more about the app here (in Danish)
If you have tested positive for COVID-19, you will be contacted by the Danish Patient Safety Authority to start contact tracing. It’s important that you:
You will be contacted by AU’s COVID-19 response team to help you and the contact tracing unit from the Danish Patient Safety Authority trace your contacts at Aarhus University and clarify as quickly as possible what steps the university needs to take to prevent the spread of infection. Aarhus University respects and protects the confidentiality of your data.
Read the Danish Health Authority’s brochure for people who test positive for COVID-19.
AU encourages you to use the official contact tracing app smitte|stop, which is designed to support more distant/peripheral contract tracing. Read more about the app here (in Danish)
If you have been in close contact with someone who has symptoms of COVID-19, you should be particularly vigilant about any symptoms you might develop yourself. You should also be particularly careful to follow the healthcare authorities’ general guidelines:
According to the Danish Health Authority, you are a close contact if you:
Read more in the Danish Health Authority’s brochure for people who have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19.
AU encourages you to use the official contact tracing app smitte|stop, which is designed to support more distant/peripheral contract tracing. Read more about the app here (in Danish)
If you have been in close contact with a person who has tested positive for COVID-19:
According to the Danish Health Authority, you are a close contact if you:
Read more in the Danish Health Authority’s brochure for people who have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19.
AU encourages you to use the official contact tracing app smitte|stop, which is designed to support more distant/peripheral contract tracing.
If you need help adjusting to the current situation and to new forms of teaching and learning, Studypedia has developed some advice for remote learning.
You can also find overall tools for how to improve your life as a student at studerende.au.dk/en/boost-your-student-life/. And finally, you can find five tips for how to tackle the new situation here.
You are always welcome to talk to a student counsellor about your concerns - even though face-to-face meetings are not possible at the moment. On this page, you can read more about how to contact your local student counsellor.
There are also other possibilities:
At the Student Counselling Service, you can get online and telephone counselling. In addition, AU Helpline and the university chaplains are ready to talk to you.
First of all, you need to contact your supervisor for help to complete your Bachelor’s project on time. This might involve adjustments at the theoretical or methodological level, in the literature you draw on or other scientific/scholarly aspects of the project.
If the coronavirus situation is making it difficult for you to finish your project on time, and your supervisor can’t help you find a solution, you can apply for a extension of the submission deadline. In your application, you must describe the specific circumstances resulting from the coronavirus situation that are the reason you need more time.
Your boards of studies can grant extensions. They will assess the best way to compensate you for the time you have lost due to the special circumstances caused by the coronavirus situation. In other words, they can grant extensions of just a few weeks to more than a month.
Here are some examples of the kinds of circumstances the boards of studies will consider legitimate grounds for asking for an extension:
Submit application for an extension
Can extensions on a Bachelor's project be granted to a group?
All board of studies may grant a joint extension to an entire Bachelor’s project group, in cases in which one or more members of the group have been affected by the coronavirus situation.
In your application, you must describe the specific circumstances resulting from the coronavirus situation that are the reason your group needs more time.
The boards of studies will assess the best way to compensate you for the time your group has lost due to the special circumstances caused by the coronavirus situation. In other words, they can grant extensions of just a few weeks to more than a month.
Here are some examples of the kinds of circumstances the boards of studies will consider legitimate grounds for asking for an extension:
All board of studies may grant a joint extension to an entire Bachelor’s project group, in cases in which one or more members of the group have been affected by the coronavirus situation.
In your application, you must describe the specific circumstances resulting from the coronavirus situation that are the reason your group needs more time.
The boards of studies will assess the best way to compensate you for the time your group has lost due to the special circumstances caused by the coronavirus situation. In other words, they can grant extensions of just a few weeks to more than a month.
Here are some examples of the kinds of circumstances the boards of studies will consider legitimate grounds for asking for an extension:
First of all, you need to contact your supervisor for help to complete your thesis on time. This might involve adjustments at the theoretical or methodological level, in the literature you draw on or other scientific/scholarly aspects of the project.
If the coronavirus situation is making it difficult for you to finish your thesis on time, and your supervisor can’t help you find a solution, you can apply for a extension of the deadline. In your application, you must describe the specific circumstances resulting from the coronavirus situation that are the reason you need more time.
Your boards of studies can grant extensions. They will assess the best way to compensate you for the time you have lost due to the special circumstances caused by the coronavirus situation. In other words, they can grant extensions of just a few weeks to more than a month.
Here are some examples of the kinds of circumstances the boards of studies will consider legitimate grounds for asking for an extension:
Submit application for an extension
Can extensions on a Master’s thesis be granted to a group?
All board of studies may grant a joint extension to an entire Master's thesis group, in cases in which one or more members of the group have been affected by the coronavirus situation.
In your application, you must describe the specific circumstances resulting from the coronavirus situation that are the reason your group needs more time.
The boards of studies will assess the best way to compensate you for the time your group has lost due to the special circumstances caused by the coronavirus situation. In other words, they can grant extensions of just a few weeks to more than a month.
Here are some examples of the kinds of circumstances the boards of studies will consider legitimate grounds for asking for an extension:
All board of studies may grant a joint extension to an entire Master's thesis group, in cases in which one or more members of the group have been affected by the coronavirus situation.
In your application, you must describe the specific circumstances resulting from the coronavirus situation that are the reason your group needs more time.
The boards of studies will assess the best way to compensate you for the time your group has lost due to the special circumstances caused by the coronavirus situation. In other words, they can grant extensions of just a few weeks to more than a month.
Here are some examples of the kinds of circumstances the boards of studies will consider legitimate grounds for asking for an extension:
Aarhus BSS Student Services would like to help you if you have any practical and administrative questions about your degree programme.
We answer your mails on all week days from 8.00 - 15.00.
When you contact us via email, we encourage you to use your AU email (studentnumber@post.au.dk). Please remember to state your full name and degree programme.
Online Drop-in Student Services
Monday 21 december 2020 - onsdag 23 december 2020 at 8.00-15.00 you can chat with Aarhus BSS Student Services via Zoom. Click on the link below.
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For full-time students on their Master's degree programme, as well as students at BDE and GMM who are registered for the Master's thesis or a project-based internship in the autumn semester 2020.
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Do you have a reexamination this semester? Remember to register by no later than February 5, 2021.
Fill out and submit AU’s COVID-19 form to notify your local studies administration office.
Aarhus BSS Student Services would like to help you if you have any practical and administrative questions about your degree programme.
We answer your mails on all week days from 8.00 - 15.00.
When you contact us via email, we encourage you to use your AU email (studentnumber@post.au.dk). Please remember to state your full name and degree programme.
Online Drop-in Student Services
Monday 21 december 2020 - onsdag 23 december 2020 at 8.00-15.00 you can chat with Aarhus BSS Student Services via Zoom. Click on the link below.