IT disruption leads to cancelled exams in Groningen too

IT disruption leads to cancelled exams in Groningen too

After problems at the University of Amsterdam, the University of Groningen too has now had a major IT disruption while online exams were underway. Hundreds of exams had to be scrapped. The second corona wave has forced exams to be done online at a massive scale. This means that at times thousands of students were logging into their digital education environment at the same time.

 This went completely wrong at the University of Groningen yesterday. The digital education environment was overwhelmed when hundreds of students were doing their exams. The exams that had to be cancelled included law and economics. It is not the first disruption, writes ‘Ukrant’, the University newspaper. The system went down last week as well, though the exams did go ahead in the end.

The Groningen Students Council is angry. “It is unacceptable that after more than seven months the capacity of the server cannot cope and it has still not been fixed,” Marinus Jongman, Chair, declared in a press release. “It is the foundation of online learning and even that goes wrong.” (HOP)