• Each class will be scheduled for a two-hour meeting during the final examination period.

• If no educational purpose will be served by any type of meeting during the 16th week [i.e. the final examination period] because the educational objectives of the course have been achieved, a department may dismiss this class meeting during the 16th week.

• Comprehensive final examinations (examinations for laboratory, intensive or minicourses excluded) are prohibited except during the regular final examination periods of the last week of the semester.

• Distance learning, hybrid and asynchronous classes are subject to these same “end of semester regulations” as in-person instruction.

1. In regular semesters, the final examination period shall consist of six scheduled days comprising the 16th week of the semester. The two-hour class meetings during the six days of the final examination period will be scheduled at the discretion of the Educational Policy Committee on the advice of the Office of the Registrar as, at most, 30 two-hour periods (five periods per day, including evenings). Upon request, a single coursewide examination will be scheduled for any course. In the summer session, the final examination schedule shall be appropriately scaled to meet the demand. It shall be scheduled at the discretion of the Educational Policy Committee on the advice of the Office of the Registrar in, at most, 12 two-hour periods on the last three days of the session (four periods per day, excluding evenings).
2. Each class will be scheduled for a two-hour meeting during the final examination period. Excepted are those courses classified as individual study, clinic, student teaching, industrial experience (co-op), or research and those offered for zero credit. However, any such course will be included in the schedule upon the specific request of the appropriate schedule deputy. If no educational purpose will be served by any type of meeting during the 16th week because the educational objectives of the course have been achieved, a department may dismiss this class meeting during the 16th week.
3. Two weeks after the beginning of any regular semester and one week after the beginning of the summer session, schedule deputies shall inform the Office of the Registrar of the courses requiring coursewide examinations. It will be the responsibility of the department head or, where appropriate, the school head to inform the Office of the Registrar which courses within the department or school will not need a meeting. A schedule implementing Section B will then be developed by the Office of the Registrar in consultation with the Educational Policy Committee. Guiding principles include
   • Minimize the number of direct student examination conflicts.
   • Minimize the number of students who have more than two examinations on the same day.
   • Minimize the number of students who have consecutive (back-to-back) examinations.
4. No student shall be required to take more than two examinations on one day.
5. The Office of the Provost shall implement a procedure to inform faculty and students of the academic regulations governing end-of-semester exams and activities each semester to coincide with the release of the final examination class schedule.
6. Students scheduled for more than two examinations in one calendar day are entitled to reschedule any examinations in excess of two. Similarly, students faced with a direct exam conflict are entitled to reschedule either examination. It is the responsibility of the student to make the necessary arrangements before the last week of regularly scheduled classes. Course instructors shall not penalize a student who chooses to reschedule an examination under these options (University Senate Document 90-22, March 25, 1991).
7. Regional campuses may modify these provisions to meet local differences through established procedures of the local faculty governing bodies or, lacking these, the regional campus chancellor or designee.
8. The final examination period is intended for end-of-semester assessments (such as a final exam, quiz) Any such assessment that requires students to be present must conform to the central scheduling of, and time limitations of, a final examination.
9. Comprehensive final examinations (examinations for laboratory, intensive or minicourses excluded) are prohibited except during the regular final examination periods of the last week of the semester.

C. Quiet Period

1. “Quiet Period” shall occur during the last Monday through Saturday (during the fall and spring terms), or the last three days (for 8-week terms), or the 1 day (in 3-4 weeks terms) of the instruction period preceding the final examination period. Distance learning, hybrid and asynchronous classes are subject to this same regulation as in-person instruction.
2. “Quiet Period” is defined as a time during which courses that conduct or collect an assessment during the final exam period shall refrain from assigning or collecting assessments. Here, “assessments” are defined as activities relating to the course’s learning objectives that students turn in for class credit that the course instructor intends to use to judge whether students have met the associated learning objectives. Assessments do not include class participation during normally scheduled class time. Courses that do not offer an assessment (such as a final exam, quiz) during the final examination period are exempt from following the restrictions on Quiet Period. It is the responsibility of the unit head to ensure that the unit’s faculty preserves this regulation thusly.