How to become an external examiner in the Bachelor of Engineering Corps or the Civil Engineering Corps
To become an external examiner within the corps, you must first establish contact with a relevant educational institution and a lecturer who may be interested in nominating you for future examination duties. The lecturer must then formally invite you as a candidate via CensorNet.dk.
It is important to note that once you are appointed as an external examiner, you may be engaged by any engineering educational institution, provided you meet the required qualifications. Your appointment is not limited to the institution that initially nominated you.
However, external examiners must not be currently employed, nor have been employed within the past two years, at the university or educational institution where they are expected to serve as an examiner.
Invitation to Join the External Examiner Corps
If you have received an invitation to become an external examiner in one of the corps, this guidance will help you understand the next steps and how to proceed
Logging in to CensorNet
Access to CensorNet is done via the MitID login system.
To log in, you will be directed to the website of The Public Login Community – NEMLOG-IN. After entering your MitID credentials, you will be redirected to a WAYF page (Where Are You From), which is a shared authentication system used by Danish universities—particularly in connection with MitID integration.
Please note that the login page may indicate that you are accessing DTU’s NemLog-in service. This is because DTU hosts the CensorNet platform, and the login process is designed to grant you access to CensorNet.
It is safe to accept that your CPR number will be transmitted. You have already provided your CPR number in CensorNet when you accepted the invitation to become an external examiner. The CPR number is sent in encrypted form and processed securely between systems—specifically, between the login system and CensorNet. It is never handled manually.
Once you click
“Yes, I accept, save consent”, you will be granted access to CensorNet.
Feedback form after each censor task
According to the Examination Orders, the external examiner must, after the examination, submit a report on the examination process to the educational institution and the chairmanship. This is done via a feedback form on CensorNet. The form can be found on your login page as an external examiner on CensorNet. The feedback form is automatically generated in CensorNet when the educational institution has registered the use of you as an external examiner on the specific exam activity. This is done via CensorNet.
If you are not appointed external examiner in the corps, but only appointed ad hoc by the chairmanship for a single exam, a feedback form will not be generated on CensorNet, as you will not be registered in the censor database on CensorNet. In these cases, you can print this feedback form, fill it in and send it to the relevant chairmanship. See contact information on CensorNet here.
It is also important for the external examiner to complete a feedback form, as the chairmanship, in connection with a new four-year term, use these forms to check whether the external examiner has been used during the previous term.
If there is no feedback form on CensorNet to fill out, the external examiner must notify the educational institution that conducted the exam. The institution will then be able to register the censor for the relevant exam, after which the form will appear on the censor's own page on CensorNet. However, this is not possible at DTU, once the grade(s) has been reported.
Updated by Anne Pallesen on 25 August 2025
Responsible editor: Farrah Chehaiber