potentially unfair exams conditions
hi everyone, i just wanted some help on what i think was an unfair exam setting that happened this morning.
we had a 20% quiz on lockdown browser that was supposed to start at 10.10am, but because of the uni wifi issues it got pushed back to 11am while lecturers printed hardcopy versions for students. when they came back around 10.50, the wifi miraculously started working again, so we were told the quiz would proceed on lockdown browser instead. however, one of the lecturers then said that anyone who wanted a hardcopy could raise their hand, as long as they only attempted one version. around half the class raised their hands and received hardcopies.
later on, the main lecturer then clarified that hardcopies were supposedly only for students with wifi issues, which confused me because many students had already been given paper copies after the earlier announcement, the issue is that the lockdown browser quiz was set up so that once you moved on from an MCQ question, you could not go back to previous questions. meanwhile, students doing the hardcopy version could freely move between questions, change answers, and draw diagrams to help visualise questions.
during the quiz, i realised from a later question that i had answered an earlier one incorrectly, but i wasn’t able to go back and change it because of the lockdown settings. after that, i honestly felt so stressed and frustrated because i knew i could have fixed the mistake if i had been doing the hardcopy version. it threw me off for the rest of the quiz and made it hard to focus properly afterwards. i feel like students doing the online version were put at a disadvantage compared to those doing the hardcopy version.
i’m not trying to blame the lecturers because the wifi situation was obviously unexpected and they were trying to manage it as best as they could. i just wanted to ask whether this sounds like a legitimate procedural fairness concern, and whether it’s something worth formally raising or if i’m overreacting. thank you.