Examination and Grading

The publication deadline for examination results is 15 working days after the examination has concluded (Saturdays, Sundays, and public holidays are not considered working days). There is an absolute deadline of two months for publishing the results of a master’s thesis (Section 9‑5 of the Regulations for Studies at the University of Bergen). Faculties may nevertheless operate with additional deadlines or specific rules that examiners must adhere to, and examiners will receive information about applicable deadlines from the examination officer at UiB.

The administrative staff are responsible for publishing the results.

* The Faculty of Law has its own deadlines for assessment and publication of examination results.

Log in at vurdering.uib.no/admin.

Examiners (internal and external) with a UiB user or guest account, and other staff

• Go to vurdering.uib.no/admin (or use the button above).
• Select “Log in with Feide”.
• Choose “University of Bergen” as your institution.
• Then select either:  

1. ID-porten (e.g., BankID), which allows you to avoid remembering your UiB username and password, or
2. “Work or school account” (typically firstname.surname@uib.no). Passwords must be changed via passord.uib.no.

Note:

If you have a FeideID from another institution and are using your work computer, it may be advisable to open the login page in a private/incognito browser window. Otherwise, the browser may automatically attempt to log you in using the credentials from your primary institution, preventing access to the submissions you are to assess for UiB.

External Examiners

External examiners must be registered as guests (type external examiner) in UiB’s guest registration system in order to access vurdering.uib.no/admin. The first time you are registered as a guest, you must:

1. Complete the guest registration process, and
2. activate your UiB guest account before logging in through Feide.

• How to activate your UiB account WITH a Norwegian national identity number
• How to activate your UiB account WITHOUT a Norwegian national identity number

These steps must be completed before logging in to Inspera via Feide with UiB affiliation.

Examiners Without a UiB Account

Examiners without a UiB account should choose “…or with registered user” and log in using the username (usually not an email address) sent by email from Inspera Assessment.
See below for information on forgotten/not set passwords.

Login Problems

Forgotten username?

If you have forgotten your username or have not received it, contact the department/faculty for which you are examining.
If you log in via Feide with UiB affiliation and then via ID‑porten, you do not need to remember your UiB username or password.

Forgotten password?

If you have forgotten the password to your UiB account, you can create a new one at passord.uib.no.

If you log in as a registered user, use the “Forgot your password?” option on the login page. If you do not receive an email with a password‑reset link, check your spam/junk folder.

You may also contact the department/faculty to confirm which username you should use (usually not an email address) and which email address the password‑reset email was sent to (provide a preferred email address if necessary).

Still having access issues?

Contact your department/faculty for assistance. Describe the problem and how you attempted to log in before encountering the issue. Including a screenshot of any error messages is helpful.

External examiners must sign a contract to receive payment. Information is available on the webpage to the Service centre for salary, travel and absence: How to sign short, temporary contracts and assignments | Employee Pages | UiB  (link opens in new window).

The remuneration process is handled entirely digitally through the payroll system of the Norwegian Agency for Public and Financial Management (DFØ). The remuneration rate depends on factors such as academic level (BA/MA), word count, length of the oral examination, and number of credits.

Travel, Accommodation and Subsistence

Payment for assessment work is separate from reimbursement for travel, accommodation, and subsistence allowances. For questions regarding travel reimbursement or accommodation, contact the department that has appointed you.

Assessment Process When You Are the Sole Examiner in the Commission:

1. Log in, navigate to “Marking”, and select the relevant course.
2. Select the commission and proceed to “Evaluate submission”.
3. Read and assess the submission. Add private notes and/or feedback to the student as needed.
4. Enter points or a result for each submission, if applicable.
5. Continue until all submissions have been assessed.
6. Go to Candidate Overview, enter the results, and approve the assessment.
7. Inform the administration that you have completed the assessment.
8. The administration will publish the results.

Assessment Process When There Are Multiple Examiners in the Commission

1. Follow steps 1–6 as above
2. Share your assessment.
3. Monitor when your co‑examiner has completed their assessment (status changes from “Private” to “Ready for approval”).
4. Hold a meeting/consultation to resolve discrepancies in the assessment.
5. Approve the joint assessment.
6. Inform the administration that the commission has completed the assessment.
7. The administration will publish the results.

Candidate Overview

After logging in, you are taken to the Candidate Overview in Inspera.
If you participate in several commissions, you must select the relevant commission first.

To view candidates in another commission, switch commission. You will see candidates grouped per commission.

Viewing or Changing Commission Members

In the upper left corner of the page, you can view the members of the commission (names and email addresses) and switch between commissions.

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Screenshot of Inspera Assessment

Description of Functionality in the Candidate Overview

A comprehensive overview and description of functionality is available here:
Description of standard page layout for examiners – Inspera Help Centre.

Below is a selection of key functions:

Result

You may enter results for candidates under “Your grade” if you are not entering points or results per question.

Grades

Once your co‑examiner has entered and shared their results, they will appear in the “Grades” column. Your own results appear in the same column.

Status

The “Status” column shows where you and any co‑examiners are in the assessment process:

• Private: You have begun or completed the assessment, but have not yet approved or shared it.
• Conflict (commissions only): There is divergence in the grades awarded.
• Ready for approval (commissions only): You and the co‑examiner(s) have agreed on a final grade; approval is required.
• Waiting for all to approve (commissions only): You have approved the final grade and are waiting for the remaining examiner(s).
• Approved: You have approved the assessment. In commissions, all examiners have approved.

Switching Between “Marking 2.0” and the Classic Marking Tool

Examiners use the Marking module in Inspera.
We recommend Marking 2.0, which offers higher quality and more functionality than the classic tool.
You can switch between versions at any time via the arrow icon in the upper right corner.

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Skjermbilde Inspera

Evaluate Submission

You read submissions on the “Evaluate submission” page.

Brief Guide to Reading Submissions

• Read the candidate’s submission in the reading pane.
• Read the question-level marking guide if available, or the overall marking guide for the exam.
• Add optional comments for the student and/or co‑examiner.
• Add optional private notes.
• Enter optional points or a grade for the question.
• Navigate to the Candidate Overview to set the overall result.
• Use the navigation menu at the bottom to move between questions and candidates.
• You may enlarge the reading pane, print the submission, and print comments if needed.

Comments and Feedback

As an examiner, you may add comments directly in the text submitted by the candidate. Comments can later be shared with the candidate or co‑examiner once results are finalised. You may also add comments pertaining to the submission as a whole.
The Student Administration is responsible for making comments available to students and co‑examiners. Coordinate with them regarding what should be shared.
Comments and feedback are not the same as an explanation of the grade.

Private Notes

You may add private notes while assessing a submission. These notes are visible only to you, but can later be imported into the explanation field and edited into a formal explanation.

Benefits of Feedback for Portfolio Assessments

Notes and comments can be valuable feedback for portfolio elements and other assessments where students receive consolidated feedback only after the final element is submitted. This is particularly useful in assessments that emphasise progression.

If You Are the Sole Examiner

1. Go to Candidate Overview, enter the results, and approve the assessment (guidance).
2. Notify the administration.
3. The administration will publish the results.

If There Are Multiple Examiners

Follow the full process described earlier under “Assessment with multiple examiners”.

1. Go to Candidate Overview, enter the results, and approve the assessment (guidance).
2. Share the marking
3. Look at any conflicts in grades and align
4. Confirm the marking
5. Notify the administration.
6. The administration will publish the results.

Guide for assessing a candidate in Inspera
Guide for single examiner assessments
Guide for multiple examiners and multiple commissions
How to assign points to questions
Individual approval of candidates
Assessment using Excel

Automatically marked questions have predefined correct answers and are scored immediately upon submission.
For manually marked questions, examiners may assign points or results per question.
For exams combining automatic and manual marking, points for automatically marked questions are assigned automatically. The examiner always determines the final grade/result.

Examiners may:

• Adjust question weighting if necessary due to errors.
• Override automatically calculated scores.
• Participate in quality assurance of the question set prior to the exam.

Threshold Values

Threshold values are numerical intervals defining grade or pass/fail boundaries.
These may be adjusted after marking begins if necessary (e.g., due to errors). Contact the Student Administration if adjustments are needed.

The examiner may give the explanation orally or in writing.
At the Faculty of Law, explanations are always oral.
Students have the right to request an explanation for both ordinary and appeal assessments.

Explanations are written and submitted in Inspera.

Deadline

Explanations must be provided within two weeks.

Oral Examinations

Students must request an explanation immediately after the result is communicated. The explanation is given orally.

Receiving and Sharing Requests for Explanation

Examiners receive email notifications from Inspera when a candidate requests an explanation.
You can adjust your notification settings in Inspera.

Content of an Explanation

Explanations should inform the student of the principles underlying the assessment and may indicate the extent to which the learning outcomes have been achieved.
Private notes and comments can help draft the explanation.

Appeal submissions are located in Inspera. The examiner receives the marking guide, course description, and reading list from the Student Administration.

Some departments also provide sample solutions with grades; you may request these if not provided.

Appeal assessments are blind, meaning examiners do not have access to the original grade, its explanation, or the student’s appeal grounds.

Control Commission

If the appeal result differs by two or more grades from the ordinary assessment, a control commission must conduct an additional assessment before the final grade is set.

The control commission normally includes members from both the ordinary and appeal commissions. They receive all documentation, including the original grade, explanation, student’s grounds for appeal, marking guides, and any discipline‑specific criteria.

The grade is not final until the control commission has completed its assessment.

Examiners may be asked to comment on alleged procedural errors that may have influenced the grading (e.g., incorrect assessment criteria). Departments may request a written statement.

Students may appeal procedural errors within three weeks after the appeal result is published. Examiners should therefore retain relevant notes until this period has passed.

An adjusting oral examination is closely linked to a written component.

• Two examiners are required.
• The written work must have a preliminary grade before the oral component.
• The examiner may adjust the grade up or down.
• Students must request explanations immediately after the result is known.
• Students may appeal the written component, but not the oral adjustment.

Oral Examinations

Oral examinations are independent assessments requiring a result.

• They must be weighted if part of a composite exam.
• Results must be provided after the examination.
• Students must request explanations immediately and cannot appeal oral exams.

Multi-Part Exams

• Each component is assessed separately and receives a result.
• All components must be passed for the student to pass the course.
• The final grade is calculated in FS based on predefined weights.
• Students may appeal individual components.

Portfolio Exams

• Portfolio elements are assessed collectively, and one overall grade is assigned.
• Non-verifiable components (e.g., oral elements) may be included but will make the entire portfolio non‑appealable, and this is therefore not recommended.
• Students may appeal the portfolio as a whole. All elements are reassessed.

UiB uses either Pass/Fail or the A–F scale (A–E pass, F fail).
Pass/Fail is an independent grading expression and not comparable to the letter scale.

Grading Scale

Weighted Calculation (Letter Grades)

Letter grades are converted to numerical values:
A=5, B=4, C=3, D=2, E=1.
Weighted averages are calculated with one decimal and rounded to the nearest whole number.

Point-Based Calculation

Some faculties use point-based components.
The final grade is based on a total between 0 and 100.

Grade Point Average (GPA)

Weighted averages are calculated based on ECTS credits using numerical grade values.
Ungraded components are excluded.

As required by the Universities and University Colleges Act §§ 11–7 and 11–11:

If you suspect cheating, notify the department.
You must write a dated and signed report describing the suspicion.

Assessment should continue as normal; however, the administration may withhold the final grade until the issue is resolved.

In adjusting oral examinations for master’s theses, examiners may probe areas of concern—but the exam must remain an ordinary oral examination, not an academic integrity interview.

Reference: Academic integrity and cheating | UiB

If only some candidates are to be examined orally, the selection must be:

• Random, based on a pre‑determined proportion; or
• Examiner judgement, for borderline cases; or
• Candidate-selected, if candidates opt in.

Candidates not called for the oral exam receive a grade based solely on the other assessment components.
Weighting rules must be defined in the course description.