Performing computer science examinations in a fully online environment

Since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, similarly to many other educational institutions, was compelled to transfer the entirety of its educational activities online. This raised significant challenges to the performing of exams in Computer science and Software engineering. This article summarizes our method for conducting exams online. It describes the challenges faced, security risks identified, and what was done to mitigate them. We propose a method for conducting exams resulting from our experience. The results described in the article reflect the experience of more than 15 teaching and examination teams led by the authors with more than 1000 students over the period of April 2020 – April 2021. Copyright © 2021 for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).