Spring 2025 Final Exam Needs

This message is intended for those academic departmental administrators, chairs, directors, and DEOs offering spring 2025 courses. If you are with a professional college that does not follow the final exam schedule set by the Office of the Registrar, please scroll down for the appropriate information regarding final exams.

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Spring 2025 Final Exam Preparation

Please review the course sections for which your department is administrative home and submit any requested final exam assignment needs. Each department is responsible for submitting their own courses' final exam assignment needs, including both undergraduate and graduate level courses. Please submit final exam needs for ALL course sections.

IMPORTANT: You MUST submit final exam needs for all undergraduate sections. If a course section does not require a final exam assignment, please indicate "No Exam Assignment Needed" on the Exam Needs form. If you do not indicate that no exam assignment is needed, an exam assignment will be created for all undergraduate sections. 

Spring 2025 Final Exam Dates

Final exam week is May 12–16, 2025.


Submission and Deadline

Final exam needs are submitted online via the "Exam Needs" submission application in MAUI. Departments must submit their requests no later than Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, at 4:30 p.m.


Final Exam Schedule Publication

The spring 2025 final exam schedule will be published to campus on Monday, Feb. 17, 2025.


Instructions and Policies

Final Exam Scheduling Policies

Final Exam Submission Needs Instructions

Important Notes:

  • While examination periods are scheduled for a two hour duration, instructors are not required to use the full two hour period. 
  • If faculty intend to schedule their exam through Distance and Online Education, please indicate "No Exam Assignment Needed" in the Exam Needs tool.
  • If no information is submitted for an undergraduate-level course, a final exam date and time with single seating will be automatically assigned. Please indicate that no exam assignment is needed if the course will not be holding a final exam. 
  • Final exam time preferences are only given consideration under special extenuating circumstances that may require DEO/dean's office approval.
  • Instructors and students are expected to be available for ALL of finals week until the schedule has been officially published. Please note in the comments section of the Exam Needs tool any special scheduling needs. While we cannot guarantee that any special requests can be fulfilled, we will take them into consideration.

Incomplete and Late Submissions

Please be aware by submitting incomplete or no information, you may be tying up exam resources which are needed by others. If no information is submitted for an undergraduate-level course, a final exam date and time with single seating will be automatically assigned. Please indicate that no exam assignment is needed if the course will not be holding a final exam. 

Requests made after the schedule has been published will require written approval from the chair/DEO and the dean of the department responsible for the course. All requests must include the curricular justification for the late addition or release. Course sections granted final exam assignments after the schedule has been published are responsible for administering makeup final exams regardless of exam precedence rules.


Faculty Review Period

Faculty will be able to review their final exam assignments before the schedule is published. The faculty review period is Feb. 7–12, 2025.

 

Professional Colleges

The Carver College of Medicine and the College of Dentistry, Law, and Pharmacy maintain their own final exam schedules and generally do not follow the final exam schedule set by the Office of the Registrar. However, some departments offer courses that allow undergraduate student enrollment. You can request a final exam assignment from the Office of the Registrar for these course sections in order to reduce the likelihood of exam conflicts for undergraduate students. This can potentially help limit the need for makeup final exam arrangements by your instructors.

Information on requesting a final exam assignment from the Office of the Registrar can be found above. Requests must be submitted by Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, at 4:30 p.m.

Questions

If you have any questions or concerns, please email reg-exams@uiowa.edu. Thank you!

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