• • The DEN Exam Coordinator notifies students via e‐mail of their examination date, time, and location approximately one week before a test date.
  • Midterm exam dates are announced by the course instructor.
  • Final exam dates are available on the university website's Schedule of Classes.

Your exam may come in any one of the following modalities:

• • In-person (requiring proctoring)
  • Online (with virtual proctoring)
  • Standard Written
  • Take-Home
  • Online Quizzes
  • Oral (Viva Voce)
  • Practical
  • Essay
  • Project-Based
  • Group/Team

DEN students that have examinations requiring in-person proctoring can either designate a proctor or take the exam at USC's main campus on the date and time stated on the course syllabus. DEN@Viterbi will review, approve, and coordinate with all proctors for your classes and exams.

Proctors for DEN students may be:

• Testing and examination centers
  • Ex. National College Testing Association 
• Current company or immediate supervisors/managers, HR representatives, or educational coordinators (employed at your company)
• Local College/School representatives
• Certified librarian at a library, college/university or K-12 school
• Military proctor from your military base

Proctors for DEN students cannot be:

• Peers, mentors, advisors or tutors
• Direct reports
• Family, friends, members of your household, landlord/former landlord or neighbors
• Former coworkers/supervisors
• Fellow students

About Testing Centers

These centers are usually open during standard business hours of 9am‐5pm local time and frequently charge a fee for their services. Professional testing centers are not affiliated with USC and administer exams for DEN as a professional courtesy.

Proctoring fees should be paid to the testing center and are due at the time of the examination. Fees will vary from location to location and are paid by the student directly to the testing center.

• • Examinations administered at authorized testing centers must be held at, or as close as possible to, the same time students on campus take the examination.
  • DEN will work with the student to identify and coordinate with local testing centers and notify students and proctors of the examination date, time, and location. To accommodate students in other time zones, or if there is a conflict with testing center hours, the examination may be given at a time different from on‐campus. In these cases, the examination will take place as close to the actual on‐campus examination time as possible.

Those in the greater Los Angeles area that have examinations requiring in-person proctoring can either designate a proctor or take the exam at USC's main campus on the date and time stated on the course syllabus. DEN@Viterbi will review, approve, and coordinate with all proctors for your classes and exams.

• • In the event of mandatory business travel, students are still required to take the exam at an authorized testing center. The student must inform the Exams Coordinator of the mandatory business travel destination at least two weeks in advance so that necessary proctoring arrangements can be made.
  • A letter from the student’s supervisor on company letterhead is required in advance to verify mandatory business travel during the date(s) of the exam. The letter must include the supervisor’s signature, title and contact information. Please scan this letter and email to the Exam Coordinator at denexam@usc.edu and mail the original to DEN.