Professor Kees Goossens from Electrical Engineering has been conducting digital tests and examinations since the start of this academic year, working with USB sticks that are handed out to the participating students every time in advance. On the server they only get access to the topics to be tested while the rest of the Internet is not accessible anymore. Afterwards each stick is collected again and the results are known immediately. It is a method designed by Goossens and scientific programmer Martijn Koedam themselves.

At the Education and Student Service Center (STU) Floris Verhagen has been working on this subject for some time now, advised by Huub de Hesselle (employee at ICT strategy & policy) and Ludo van Meeuwen (adviser testing & assessment). This led to an extensive risk analysis in the area of digital testing with student laptops. This week Verhagen and Goossens discussed which methods they consider to be the most practicable and they consulted employees of ICT Services about the feasibility and the possibilities within the network. Verhagen and Goossens hope that pilot projects can be started even before the summer holidays.