The universities of Cambridge and Oxford are both replacing this summer’s exams with online assessments, The Guardian has reported.

Cambridge students who cannot do this due to “illness, caring responsibilities or technical difficulties” are to be allowed to undertake the assessment later when the university is fully operational again. However the university added that students won’t be allowed to defer their assessments until the next academic year.

On Friday, Professor Martin Williams, pro-vice chancellor for education at Oxford sent an email to students saying there will be “no conventional exams” next term. He said the university expected the replacement assessment to include “open-book exams, taken remotely and submitted online.”