News Summary of the Electronic Exam Service

18.3.2025

The news summary of the Electronic Exam Service (TUNI EXAM) includes the news published during the spring semester of 2025. The news has been published on the intranet of the Tampere Universities community, which is the official channel for internal communication within the community. The news in the summary is intended for students and staff members of the Tampere Universities community. News intended for exam visitors is published as news on the front page of the TUNI EXAM guide website (tuni.fi/exam) in the News section.

News Summary

Give feedback on EXAM and take part in a prize draw! (published on April 7, 2025)

TAMK: BYOD exam type available in TUNI EXAM from April 2nd (published on April 2, 2025)

TAU: Creating a maturity test in TUNI EXAM system (published on March 25, 2025)

News summary for the Electronic Exam Service has been published (published on March 25, 2025)

Exam room E109 has been opened for student use on March 17, 2025 (published on March 17, 2025)

TAMK: Teacher, sign up to test the BYOD exam in TUNI EXAM! (published on March 6, 2025)

Topical issues in TUNI EXAM and EXAM webinar this spring (published on March 6, 2025)

Computers in the electronic exam room on the Kauppi campus will be replaced (published on February 13, 2025)

TUNI EXAM: Over 90,000 exam completions in 2024 (published on February 11, 2025)

TAMK: Accessible Exam Room B1-23 is only available with reservations (published on February 7, 2025)

TAMK: EXAM room G2-04 is open for examinations from February 4th 2025 (published on February 3, 2025)

Malfunction in electronic exam rooms on January 22, 2025 (published on January 22, 2025)

TUNI EXAM will be updated to version EXAM 6.3.2 on January 20, 2025 (published on January 2, 2025)

News

Name	Hostname	Vendor	Expiry
lb_selection	www.tuni.fi		Session
Load balancer selection cookie, assist in balancing the servers
cookiehub	.tuni.fi	CookieHub	365 days
Used by CookieHub to store information about whether visitors have given or declined the use of cookie categories used on the site.
csrftoken	4932.clients.giosgusercontent.com		364 days
Used by many systems for Cross Site Request Forgery protection.
sgid	service.giosg.com		400 days
Personal, secret identifier of the visitor. This ID is only known by the end user's browser and is only sent to Giosg for validation. This secret prevents any other person (like an agent) from impersonating the visitor or accessing their private data. This is the same value as “sgid” in service.giosg.com domain. This cookie is normally set only for those visitors for whom we cannot store this information to *.giosg.com domain in an iframe because of blocked third-party cookies.
giosg_chat_id_	www.tuni.fi		365 days
Organization specific visitor identifier. This cookie is used to distinguish unique visitors and allow chat to continue from page to page.
giosg_operator_state_cache_4932			Session
Information is stored to offer better user experience by faster chat loading time after page change.
scrollPos:/			Session
Scrolling position depth based on user's device' width and length

Name	Hostname	Vendor	Expiry
uxt:2b1bdeff-d4a2-4ed9-90fb-30eb5e4a16fc			Session
uxtr_disable_0c226930-efad-492d-a88e-df6b7568227a			Session

Name	Hostname	Vendor	Expiry
_ga_	.tuni.fi	Google	400 days
Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics 4 to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions.
_ga	.tuni.fi	Google	400 days
Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions.
nmstat	.tuni.fi	Siteimprove	400 days
This cookie is used to help record visitors' use of the website. It is used to collect statistics about site usage such as when the visitor last visited the site. This information is then used to improve the user experience on the website. This Siteimprove Analytics cookie contains a randomly generated ID used to recognize the browser when a visitor reads a page. The cookie contains no personal information and is used only for web analytics.

Name	Hostname	Vendor	Expiry
_gcl_au	.tuni.fi	Google Advertising Products	90 days
Used by Google AdSense to understand user interaction with the website by generating analytical data.
test_cookie	.doubleclick.net	Google	1 hour
Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies
msd365mkttr	www.tuni.fi		365 days
This is being used for the same purpose as the first cookie(79f08280-5c63-4331-b04d-fb6f39afda51). Only difference is that this cookie is set on the customer domain. In some cases, we're unable to access third party cookies (ex: safari OOB blocks) therefore we set this first party cookie to keep functionality.
msd365mkttrs	www.tuni.fi		Session
This cookie is similar to (319af4c0-e197-4de9-8a9b-fe98c8a2ca04). Only difference is that it's a first party cookie
IDE	.doubleclick.net	Google Advertising Products	390 days
Used by Google's DoubleClick to serve targeted advertisements that are relevant to users across the web. Targeted advertisements may be displayed to users based on previous visits to a website. These cookies measure the conversion rate of ads presented to the user.