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[chryanvii]

(Question 1): Our university coordinators have told us that we need to record all of our students' oral speeches for their final exams and submit them to the office. Do you think that's a strange request? Have you ever been asked by your university leaders/coordinators to do this before? Why do they need all this stuff?

(Question 2): Have you ever had your coordinators use a student as a liaison to communicate with you, instead of having the coordinator communicate with you directly? Several times this semester I have had students approach me to remind me about certain things. For instance, today the monitor of our class reminded me that we needed to record the exams next week. I took a little bit of offense to this, since it seemed as if I was receiving orders from a student.

Actually...I haven't even met this coordinator this semester face-to-face.

Anyway...knock some sense into me! Maybe I'm the one who needs some shaking up? Just wanted to see if anyone has had the same experiences at their schools...

[teenoso]

Yes I have had to record exams before , and it was a complete pain , but honestly I don't think anyone ever listened to the audio files. It was just for their records, in case of a 'quality audit' by the local government/provincial school office etc.
And yes , some schools will use students as liaison - at my last school there were over 20 FTs and the foreign affairs office was terrible and used to dump lots of work on the poor 'volunteer ' students .

Also on some courses I've had a student assistant to help and he/she would often convey messages and reminders.
To be honest, the less contact with school bureaucracy the better , imo, so I really didn't mind.

[doogsville]

In my last job they started having us record the Oral exams three years ago. They provided hand held recorders, little dictation machines, but they stopped working after the first year so we just used out phones after that. Put your phone on the desk in front of the students and use the app of your choice to record. Then change the file name to the student(s) registration number(s) and you're good to go. We had to burn them to CD/DVD and hand them in with the score sheets and other paperwork for those classes.

They never told us why, and we never asked, but I would guess it's in case of any dispute about the score. I believe IELTS speaking tests are also recorded for similar reasons.

[Non Sequitur]

Oral examination/assessment

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[Osiry]

I've had to record student spoken assessments for external moderation purposes, but that's about it.