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From November 2023 Master's Theses at UiB must be submitted at vurdering.uib.no. You get access to the test for submission if you in this semester

have registered for the semester on Studentweb,
have paid the semester fee, and
are enrolled for examination in the thesis course.

Start the submission well ahead of the submission deadline. It may take some time to upload the file(s) and input the summary. Note where you have saved the file(s) you are going to submit.

On this page you can read about:

Have this ready before you start your submission

Do you want your Master's Thesis to be available online?
Master's Thesis in PDF format
Attachments
Title of your Master's Thesis
Summary
Group assignment?

How to make a submission at vurdering.uib.no
Edit your submission until the submission deadline
Do you need help?
After submission deadline
Master's Theses with a ban on access

Have this ready before you start your submission

Do you want your Master's Thesis to be available online?

You own the rights to your Master's Thesis. BORA is UiB's open, digital research archive which also contains full-text Master's Theses. UiB encourages all students to make their Master's Thesis openly available in BORA. The thesis is then searchable and accessible online. If you choose not to make your thesis available in BORA, information about your thesis will not be openly available. UiB stores all Master's Theses in a closed digital archive, including theses that are not made available in BORA.

When you submit your Master's Thesis at vurdering.uib.no, the thesis will by default be made available in BORA in accordance with Agreement for making master thesis available in BORA, unless you actively choose not to make it openly available. If you are a student at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, you must have your supervisor's approval before you can make your thesis available in BORA (see information in the linked agreement). Please contact us by email to bora@uib.no if you have any questions about the agreement, or have other questions about making your thesis available in BORA.

If you do not want your Master's Thesis to be available in BORA, please choose so in your submission. You can alternatively choose to postpone making your thesis available for 1-5 years. The information about your Matser's thesis is then made available in BORA, while the thesis file itself is closed for 1-5 years. Delayed availability can be useful if you cannot publish the thesis straight away, for example if you are going to publish based on the thesis, or if the thesis is part of an unfinished research project.

If your Master's Thesis does not receive a passing result, it will not be available in BORA, even if you have agreed to this in your submission.

Your Master's Thesis is made available in BORA when the thesis has received a final passing result. That is, after you have had your Master's Thesis approved and the deadline for appealing the grade has expired.

Master's Thesis in PDF format

You can write your Master's Thesis in various formats, but you must submit your thesis as a PDF file. Text writing software usually has built-in functionality to save/export/write the text to PDF format.

Make sure you know where you saved the file you are going to submit, and that you choose the right version of your thesis when you upload the Master's Thesis file in your submission.

Maximum file size is 2 GB.

How to create a pdf file

Attachments

Any attachments to your Master's Thesis, should preferably be a part of the thesis file in PDF format. Attachments can be, for example, interview guides, models or program code. Attachments that you want to be available in BORA together with your thesis must be part of the thesis file. Master’s thesis at the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Medicine: Please upload your thesis in a single file, in PDF format. Any attachments should be included in this file.

If you have attachments to your Master's Thesis that cannot or should not be converted to PDF format, or should not be made available in BORA, you must pack the file(s) in a zip file before submission. Please note that this applies even if you only have one attachment file. You can make attachments that you upload in the zip file available in BORA, by request by email to bora@uib.no. Be sure to specify which attachment(s) you are talking about.

How to merge pdf files

How to pack into a zip file (COMING)

Title of your Master's Thesis

The title you enter in your submission will later appear on the transcript of records, your diploma and in BORA. The title field does not support rich-text formatting. Please enter the title as plain text. The title fields handle the UTF-8 character set, meaning they also support alphabets other than Latin, such as Greek and Chinese, but not fractions, mathematical expressions, or superscripts and subscripts.

You write the title in the language in which you have written your Master's Thesis.

If you have written your thesis in a language other than English, you can also enter an English title in your submission, which will then appear on your English transcript of records.

If you do not submit your thesis title, this may delay the assessment of your thesis.

Summary

If you want a summary to be included with your Master's Thesis in BORA, you must enter the summary when submitting your thesis. You can write summaries in Norwegian or another Scandinavian language and/or in English. Summaries are also written in plain text (see information on title above).

You also have the option of entering key words that describe your thesis. The key words will be searchable in BORA, and will make it easier for interested parties to find your thesis.

Group assignment?

If you have written your Master's Thesis together with others, both you and the others in your group must submit the thesis as an individual submission. Remember to check the box for submitting a group assignment in the submission. You and the others in your group must agree on whether the thesis should be available in BORA, and make the same choice in your submissions. Your Master's thesis then gets one entry in BORA and everyone in the group is linked to this entry.

How to make a submission at vurdering.uib.no

Open a browser and go to vurdering.uib.no.
Select "Log in with Feide" and log in with your UiB username and password. Remember to select UiB as your affiliation. Please see additional information about log in and about browser requirements (system requirements) on the UiB's website "Preparing for exams".
Find the test for your Master's Thesis course in "My tests" and open the test.
Enter the necessary information in text fields, make the necessary selections where prompted, and upload the Master's Thesis file and any attachments. Your answer is saved automatically, and will be delivered by the submission deadline. Remember to start uploading files well ahead of the submission deadline.

DEMO This is roughly how Master's Thesis Submission will look on vurdering.uib.no (NOTE!! You can NOT submit your thesis in this view).

Edit your submission until the submission deadline

You may make changes to your submission up until the submission deadline. You can, for example, change the title or summary, or replace the thesis file itself with a new version of your Master's Thesis. Please note that it is the choices you make during the last edit before the submission deadline that will be saved and submitted together with your master's thesis. To make changes, log in to vurdering.uib.no and reopen the test for your Master's Thesis course. You can now change the text and selections you made earlier, and you can upload new files. The changes are saved automatically.

Do you need help?

If you need help with your submission, please contact the study administration at the department or faculty where you are submitting your thesis. Please refer to your Master's Thesis course web page on the UiB website for contact information. Use uib.no/en/course/COURSECODE or search for your Master's Thesis course at uib.no/en/course to find course web page. You can also contact your Faculty Information Center.

For technical support, for example if you encounter any problems with UiB cloud storage, you can contact User Support for students.

After submission deadline

After submission deadline, you can log in to vurdering.uib.no and find your Master's thesis submission in "Archive". When your UiB user account is closed, you can no longer log in to vurdering.uib.no. Please store your Master's Thesis for your own use. If you choose to make your thesis available in BORA, you can share your Master's Thesis with others by sending them the thesis BORA url.

Master's Theses with a ban on access

UiB wishes to the greatest extent possible to avoid the need for ban on access to Master's Theses.

Master's Theses with a ban on access due to statutory confidentiality or clauses for other reasons must NOT be submitted at vurdering.uib.no.

You must apply for an access ban/clause to your department/faculty well in advance of submission deadline. It is your department or faculty that decides on clauses. Please find contact information on your Master's Thesis course web page on the UiB website. You will receive a separate link from your department/faculty for secure submission of a classified Master's Thesis.