Notes on our office hours via WebEx can be found on our website.

Your exam team can also be contacted by email if you have any questions or concerns. Contact details are provided at the end of the text.

To help us reply as quickly as possible, please make sure to include the following information:

• Matriculation number
• Intended qualification
• Degree program
• Modules (if registering or de-registering from an exam)

For reasons of data privacy, we ask that you send all emails from your TU Berlin email account. Disable any automatic forwarding from your TU account to a private account. Please note that all University notifications/information/decisions are sent to TU Berlin email accounts to ensure they reach the intended recipient only.

If you are contacting us via the contact form, please provide your TU Berlin email address, should you have one. 

We are also happy to call you to discuss any more complex individual questions you may have. Please provide all the necessary information in your email so that we can best prepare for our conversation.

Please understand that it may take some time to receive a response due to weekends and the time required to process your inquiry, including any necessary follow-up questions.

You can continue to send us documents by post. All documents should be sent to:

Technische Universität Berlin
Referat Prüfungen – [provide the relevant degree program or team]
Straße des 17. Juli 135
10623 Berlin

Team 1: Contact form or email
Team 2: Contact form or email
Team 3: Contact form or email
Team 4: Contact form or email
Team 5: Contact form or email

• Please note that you must first register for an exam before you can take it. Examiners are responsible for announcing the registration periods. If no registration periods are announced, the regulations in Section 39 (3) AllgStuPO apply.

  Please continue to register for examinations via QISPOS/SAP. For all registrations that cannot be completed electronically, please send the completed registration form to your exam team.

  For data privacy reasons, we ask that you send all emails from your TUB email account. Disable any automatic forwarding from your TU account to a private account. Please note that all University notifications/information/decisions are sent to TU Berlin email accounts to ensure they reach the intended recipient only.

• • You must register in good time prior to all examinations. There may be a number of reasons preventing you from registering, even after the registration option has been activated by the academic chair in QISPOS:
    • You still have an open registration from the 2019/2020 winter semester or 2020 summer semester for the examination you wish to take (for example if your examination had to be canceled). This registration remains active and you can take the examination on the next possible date without further measures.
    • A technical problem is preventing you from successfully registering. If this is the case, please contact technical support. You can find information regarding other question/problems at: https://www.tu.berlin/en/go1280/
• To register for elective and additional modules, please submit a registration form to your examination team in good time. Please understand that it may take some time to receive a response due to weekends and the time required to process your inquiry, including any necessary follow-up questions. You will receive an email confirming your registration. Alternatively, you can review your registration under “registered examinations” in your QISPOS or SAP account. Please regularly check that your SAP or QISPOS account information is accurate and updated in the days following your registration. Please also inform your academic chair of your registration immediately after receipt of this confirmation. Be sure to include the following information when contacting the academic chair:  your matriculation number, your degree program, your intended degree, and the title of the module.
• You can find the module title under “registered examinations” in the elective and additional modules section and present this when entering the examination room or when entering the premises.
• The registration deadline for portfolio examinations is 30.11.2020.
• If the registration deadline in QISPOS or the Examination Office has passed, you may submit a late registration (Link: Nachmeldung in QISPOS) to your exam team with the approval/signature of the examiner or academic chair.
• If you belong to an at-risk group or other important reasons prohibit you from taking the examination in the intended format, you can submit a request to change the method of examination. You should submit appropriate proof with your request. Further information is available on the Academic Advising Service’s web pages.

• The regulations in the General Study and Examination Regulations apply to exam deregistrations during winter semester 2020/2021. You may deregister from an exam up to one day before the examination or first examination component. If you are unable to deregister in QISPOS/SAP, please send an email with the withdrawal form in good time to the relevant examination team and respective examiners/academic chairs.
• In principle, it is only possible to deregister from a portfolio examination up to the start of the first element of the examination. If individual elements of the portfolio examination are changed by teaching staff after their commencement, the exam can be continued at a later date. Withdrawing from the entire examination is only possible in exceptional cases, e.g. if it is not possible to continue due to prolonged illness, a stay abroad or similar. In this case, please include the reasons for withdrawing. You also require the signature of the academic chair.
• You can only withdraw on the day of the examination if you can provide proof of important grounds for doing so. In this case you must fill out the withdrawal form and obtain a medical certificate. If the examiners stop the examination because it is clear that you are ill, you will only need to present a medical certificate if required to do so by the examiners. Certificates of incapacity or medical certificates may not be issued later than the day of the exam. Please immediately inform the relevant examiners/academic chairs and submit the form and medical certificate to your examination team within five days. You can also submit this electronically via a scan.
• If you do not attend an examination for which you registered without officially withdrawing or fail to present a medical certificate and do not provide proof of good reason for not attending within five days, you will be graded with a 5.0 and your non-attendance recorded.

Teaching staff are required to inform students as quickly as possible of any changes to exam formats, such as an exam not taking place in person as planned. Please check in the ISIS forum, your email as well as any other channels used to provide information for your exam. If you are unable or do not wish to take an examination whose format has been changed at short notice, you may de-register without providing a reason up to one day before the exam. Your examiner will then inform you if you need to register again to take the exam at a later date.

• Examination dates are announced as follows:

• Within 14 days of the start of the module for written examinations and portfolio examinations
• No later than four weeks before the examination date for oral exams

If you would like to register your final thesis please email your exam team. Your exam team can provide the registration form for final theses.

• Please send the completed form to your exam team from your TU email account.
• Your exam team will check to see that the requirements are met, complete its part of the form and send it to the first examiner.
• The first examiner selects the topic, nominates a second examiner, and signs and forwards the form to the examination committee.
• The examination committee sends its decision to the examination team.
• You will then receive an email in your TU Berlin account or a letter in the mail with the selected topic and submission deadline. The deadline is determined by your study and examination regulations.

Final theses may be submitted by post or in a sealed envelope addressed to the relevant exam team and dropped at the information desk of the Main Building. The date of receipt at TU Berlin or stamp from the information desk is decisive for the timely submission.

You may also submit your final thesis electronically with the agreement of both examiners. To do so, send your thesis electronically as a PDF to your exam team using the contact form or upload it to the TU Berlin cloud and send us an access link. Include a photo or scan of your registration form with your electronic submission.

The file name you assign to your final thesis should use the following format: Abschlussarbeit_yourmatriculationnumber.pdf

Please include the following information in your email:

• Name:
• Matriculation number
• Degree type and degree program
• Name and email address of the first examiner
• Name and email address of the second examiner:
• Title of the thesis you are submitting:
• A statement that the thesis includes a declaration that you completed the work independently in accordance with Section 60 (8) AllgStuPO
• For work submitted in English or if required by study and examination regulations: A statement that the thesis includes a summary in German/English. Refer to the guidelines in the information sheets as well as your study and examination regulations to find out which statements and declarations are required.

Contact information:

Technische Universität Berlin
Referat Prüfungen – [provide the relevant degree program or team]
Straße des 17. Juli 135
10623 Berlin

Team 1: Contact form or email
Team 2: Contact form or email
Team 3: Contact form or email
Team 4: Contact form or email
Team 5: Contact form or email

Repeat examination deadlines are no longer in effect at TU Berlin unless they were individually determined in a legal dispute. Please note that failed exams must still be re-taken in order to earn a degree.

If you currently do not have access to your TAN list, you can use the WebID procedure: This allows you to be identified via video and issued a one-time password.  
You can complete the WebID procedure from home or your phone. You require a PC, smartphone, or tablet with a fast internet connection and a webcam.
An identity card or passport with your photograph is required for the identification check.

How the video chat identity procedure works:

1. Please double check your device’s compatibility on the following website: https://check-webident.tubit.tu-berlin.de/
2. After you have checked the compatibility of your device, you can call our IT hotline +49 30 31428000 during our opening hours (Monday to Friday, 10:00 -16:00).
3. A Campus Management employee will then start the video call.
4. To verify your identity, please hold your ID in front of the camera and move it as prompted so that security features can be verified.
5. After, you will be provided with a one-time password in the chat function, which you can use to either:
   1. Reset the password or
   2. Have a new TAN list generated

Please note the following:

• You must inform the ISIS team of the exam date and duration as well as the number of participants expected at least two weeks before holding an exam via ISIS.
• Students must be informed in good time, including of the necessary technical requirements and the exam procedure.
• Students' identities are to be verified using two-factor authentication (TOTP preferred) via their smartphone.
• It must be confirmed that the student is able to take the exam. You can use the text provided in the protocol for oral exams and include it in the examination documents before the tasks as confirmation. You can find a sample text in the ISIS forum checklist.
• It is recommended for exams where students must download the tasks and upload their answers within a certain time, to schedule extra time for the download and upload at the beginning and end of the examination which is not part of the students’ working time.
• Video supervision must be approved under data protection regulations. Should students feel their basic rights could be violated, they can minimize the risk of this by choosing either a neutral background in their home or using a virtual background. Audio and video recordings, screenshots, and a 360° pan are prohibited. You can find further information (after logging in) in the checklist and the ZEWK wiki.

Problem management:

• If (documentable) technical issues occur during an online exam, a student can either accept the grade/result awarded by the examiner or choose not to have the exam attempt counted.‌‌‌‌‌

• Please take note of the information letters from the TU Berlin Crisis Committee published on 08.02.2022 - Information about online exams as well as on 04.02.2022 - Regulations for the exam period.

When conducting oral exams online, we ask that you observe the following:

• Always include an observer or second examiner and keep a protocol as you would for an in-presence exam.
• To start
  • Confirm the student's identity by having them hold their student/personal ID up to the camera.
  • Confirm the student’s consent to examination by video conference and document this in the exam protocol.
• If you are unable to view the MTS or SAP registration yourself, have the student provide proof of their examination registration (registration form or MTS printout).
• Using the protocol, walk through each of these formal steps with the student.
• The protocol can be written and signed by the observer or one of two examiners, then scanned and sent to (another) examiner, who then also signs.
• Documents that students create during the exam (such as calculations, drawings, etc.) that would otherwise remain in the protocol should be sent by students to examiners either as a screenshot or as a photo during or immediately after the exam.
• The protocol remains with the examiners who record the grades in QISPOS/SAP. Alternatively, the examiners can send everything to I B.
• Explanation of grades: The video session should be terminated to allow consultation between the examiners on the grade. The connection may be re-established when the examiners are ready to announce and explain the candidate’s grade.

Problem management:

• According to the Senate Chancellery “Video conferences are […] a de facto presence comparable to physical presence...”. (Letter of 26.3.2020 on the topic: Conducting committee meetings) In this respect, examination via video chat is also considered an oral examination, i.e. there is no change in the method of the examination if it was already an oral examination or a second repeat examination.
• The consent of the student being examined via video conference is to be documented in writing in the exam protocol.
• If technical issues occur (unstable internet connection or similar), first try to reconnect and resume the examination. The period of disruption is not counted towards the examination time. If it is not possible to immediately resume the exam, review whether the progress made thus far (depending on the duration) already permits you to make a final evaluation and inform the student of the grade. If the students wishes to continue the exam or the exam duration thus far was too short to allow for adequate assessment, schedule a new appointment to resume the exam.

Permitted tools:

The following tools are currently permitted to conduct oral online examinations:

• TU Zoom license with E2E encryption
• TU Webex with E2E encryption
• tubMeeting (Webex local app)
• Jitsi meet@innoCampus local app

Further information:
ZEWK online teaching team
Video exams

Holding a written exam as a take-home exam represents a change to the original exam format and must be reported to the relevant examination board.

Holding a written exam online instead of face-to-face is simply a change in the mode of conduct and not the exam format.

Holding an oral exam online using electronic media also does not represent a change to the exam format.

We request you to inform your students as soon as possible about any changes to the examination as well as the option to withdraw from the exam up to one day beforehand.

Except for the SAP courses of study Physics and Historical Urban Studies: Examiners record grades in the module transfer system. This includes grades for elective and additional modules, as students can choose how to have the module allocated when registering.

Once you have entered the grades, three grade lists can be generated in CSV format: 1 - all results (for your own overview), 2 - compulsory and compulsory elective modules, 3 - elective and additional modules (see export buttons). Compulsory and compulsory elective modules can be uploaded to QISPOS. The QISPOS support team can assist you with any technical difficulties. The Please send the list with elective and additional modules as an email attachment to the Examination Office: ibrefl@pruefungen.tu-berlin.de 

Please also refer to the details provided here: