CASA Testing Centers

Testing Center - Main Campus

The CASA Testing Centers have 120 testing stations in each of their locations, and currently offers testing for a multitude of courses at the University of Houston.

Students who are required to take an exam at the CASA Testing Center need to access Courseware to obtain an account in order to register their biometric prior to making their exam reservation.

To reserve a seat for CASA exam, students need to log into their CCS account at https://ccs.casa.uh.edu.

To view the "Student CASA Testing Guidelines" go to Student Instructions Testing Centers

Students with question about the CASA Testing Centers can email CASA Tech Support at courseware@uh.edu for assistance.

New CASA Testing Center at Sugar Land

If you are currently taking one or more courses offered from the UH Sugar Land Campus, then you can take your CASA exams for any course at either the main campus or Sugar Land.
Look for the location option in your exam scheduler at https://ccs.casa.uh.edu.
For more information email courseware@uh.edu.
Location: Albert & Mamie George Building- AMG 302

Justin Dart Accessibility for special accommodations testing

CASA Testing Center Rules

Students: Please read our updated rules for the CASA Testing Center.

IMPORTANT: Any student who is required to take an exam at the CASA Testing Center must register his/her Biometric Information before the exam date.
Biometric registration is a one-time process. If you have taken an exam at CASA in the past and have already registered, you do not have to register again.
You will need to bring your UH Cougar Card to CASA to register. If you have not yet obtained your Cougar Card, a state issue ID, a passport, or your digital Cougar ID from the UH Go app is an acceptable form of ID.
A Photo ID card is required to check in.
CASA exams are given by RESERVATIONS ONLY. You must schedule your exam in advance using the exam scheduler in Courseware account.
Check-in starts 20 minutes before your scheduled exam time. As a courtesy, we allow you to check-in no later than 15 minutes after your reservation, based on the CASA FRONT DESK wall clock. No exceptions!
No food and/or drinks allowed in the Testing Center.
Exams begin on the hour: If you arrive late, you may have the possibility of rescheduling your exam. There is NO "standby" provision. No exceptions!
Only items essential to testing are permitted at the testing workstations. Students are not permitted to bring any personal belongings to the Testing Center. Items such as briefcases, notebooks, backpacks, purses, calculators (unless instructed otherwise), pagers, cell phones, recording devices, photography equipment, and any other prohibitive item that is not related to the testing session must be placed at the check-in desk.
Raise your hand for assistance.
Return all testing materials, scratch paper, etc. and aids to a proctor at the check-out desk at the end of your testing session.
The CASA Testing Center is not responsible for any lost, misplaced, or damaged personal belongings.
Students in the Testing and Tutoring Centers of CASA are prohibited from possessing any items that can be used as weapons, including, but not limited to, handguns, firearms, ammunition, fireworks, pellet guns, paintball guns, BB guns, knives, clubs or explosive or noxious materials.

Locations

Find out our CASA Testing Center locations.

Petition

If you are unsatisfied with a test grade, contact your instructor.

Instructor Procedures for Arranging Exams at the CASA Testing Center

How to submit a request for your course to utilize the CASA Testing Center for your exams

Instructors need to submit the Exam Schedule Request Form.
Every effort will be made to accommodate your request and time. The accommodation is for space availability is on a first scheduled, first reserved basis.
To accommodate campus wide testing, UH Faculty will not be able to reserve the entire testing lab for their whole class to test at once.
Faculty can learn more about the CASA’s testing centers and schedule testing in CASA by contacting either Minh Nguyen or Samantha Stark.

Exam Criteria

Open note, book or web exams cannot be accommodated at CASA.
If your exam requires a specific type of calculator, then the instructor must send the requirements to the CASA at the start of the semester. Calculators will be allowed if approved by the instructor in advance .
Exams will be administered online. If a handout, formula chart or other form of free response needs to be given to students during exam, then the instructor will need to provide this information at the time the reservation is made.
Students will be given scratch papers at check-in. Scratch sheets will be collected upon checking out to ensure test security. Students must provide their own writing utensil .
As this testing format will serve students taking exams across campus at any given time, the lab will not be available for classroom announcements, discussions, or handling of individual assignments.
Exams are restricted with Lockdown Browser (LDB), Firewall, and IP Address Restriction to ensure that exams are secured. LDB and IP Address Restriction will need to be added to Canvas exams by the instructor.

Additional Information

Students must have reservations to take their exams at CASA. The scheduler for each exam will be available and open for students to make their reservation in CCS 2 weeks prior to the exam date, and Seating is guaranteed to be available to students until the exam starts at CASA.
CASA provides trained proctors to monitor students taking exams. Proctors will report any signs of academic dishonesty according to the UH Academic Dishonesty Policy.