What is valid absence?
Valid absence must be documented by the student and may be approved on the following basis:
- Your own illness or illness of someone you are responsible for
- Birth
- Death in the immediate family
- Funeral or memorial service in the immediate family or for someone you have a close relationship with
- Other compelling reasons beyond your control
Private trips, work-related absence, and similar reasons are not considered valid absence for exams.
If you do not provide documentation for your absence, the exam will be registered as an attempt.
Valid documentation
Valid documentation can be a medical certificate or equivalent. The name of the doctor/expert must be included in the documentation, and it must be dated. It must be clearly stated in the certificate that you were ill on the day of the exam. If you fall ill during the exam and have to withdraw, the medical certificate must be dated on the day of the exam to be valid. The documentation must include your full name, student number, and the course code of the relevant exam.
Deadline for submitting documentation
Documentation must be submitted to INN University as soon as possible, and no later than one week after the examination. If the deadline expires on a weekend, it will be extended to the next working day.
If you have problems submitting documentation within the deadline, contact the study administration at your faculty.
Where the medical certificate should be delivered
Submit or send documentation to the faculty that is responsible for the course or to your contact point. Medical certificates contain sensitive information and should not be sent by email. You can use the web form for secure file submission. Ensure that you receive a confirmation message on the screen for the submitted documentation.
You will not receive an answer that we have received your doctor's certificate, but will see that it is registered in Studentweb. You will only see this when the examination deadline for the exam is out.
The medical certificate is shredded after it has been registered in our systems and will not be returned.
Absence from an exam / failure to submit an exam
If you do not attend an exam, you will be registered as absent and as having used one exam attempt. The same applies if you do not submit a completed exam (digital exam, home exam, portfolio assessment, and similar forms of examination) within the given deadline.
Students who do not attend an exam or do not submit an answer without a valid reason are not allowed to take the continuation exam, and must wait until the next ordinary exam is offered.