Teknoids

Hi all,

I'm having a problem setting up examsoft on out registrar's computer. The softteach software is getting some sort of 1433 port error and is not connecting to examsoft's database. Now, i know our university allows outbound 1433 access but blocks inbound access as that is the default SQL port. Is there any way around this without me talking to our main campus network security personnel? Has anyone seen this problem before?

~Joe

Another exam software question.  Are schools that offer exam software such as Examsoft or Securexam making any special seating arrangements to separate the laptop users from the writers?  Other than noise, are there any concerns with combining these groups? 
 
Thanks.
 
 
 
 Keith Walton - Manager Network ServicesWest Virginia University College of LawPO Box 6135 - Morgantown - WV - 26506Phone 304-293-8556 - Fax 304-293-6020Keith.Walton@mail.wvu.edu

We recently had a student setup his Intel Mac to dual boot with OSX and Windoze XP SP2 (Why Windoze on a Mac I'll never understand).  After installing XP he installed Examsoft and had no problems running the qualifying exam. 
 
 Does anyone see the downside of letting students do this?  We don't have an Intel Mac to test this on so I am going strictly by what the student claims.  I did see it working briefly so I see no reason to doubt that this will work.
 
 
Opinions, criticisms, claims of downright lies welcome.
 
 
 
 
Ken GilbertIT Department Vermont Law Schoolkgilbert@vermontlaw.edu802.831.1353

For those of you whose law school
enrollment is 1,000 or more students, I would like to request your
input on the following:

When students are done with taking an exam, how to they save/upload?
How do exams get printed?

At our school we don't have any classrooms with Ethernet to the seat.
We instituted wireless networking about two years ago. For most
purposes it has sufficed, but toward the end of every semester, it
seems the system can't quite keep up with demand. I'm a bit
apprehensive to rely on it for uploading completed exams. Up to now our
exams have been saved to USB drives we distribute to each student in
their exam room. These drives are returned with the exam. Our
Registrar's office then copies the exam files to a network folder,
prints them, removes the file from the USB drive and then puts the
drive back into circulation.

Exam Results: Texas Tech University School of Law

Final Exams:  Spring 2006

Testing software: ExamSoft Softest

Exam process:  Flexsite. 

·       Exams are uploaded via the web and made available for student download 3 days to a week before the exam.  Exams are password protected.

·       Students are given the exam password by the test proctor. 

Our school completed the final pilot exams using Exam4
from Extegrity and everything worked great for about
150 students (one exam each submitted on USB drive).

We still have some fine tuning to do on our
instructions and exam file processing, but the
software was flawless. This fall we will roll out the
Exam4 software and phase in about 1/3 of our 900
students and then another 1/3 next fall, etc. and will
also move towards electronic submittal at the same
time.

I am very interested in hearing from everyone about
your exam software and results as we close out finals.

Happy Finals!

Michael P. Durbin
School of Law IT Director
Saint Louis University School of Law
3700 Lindell Boulevard
St. Louis, MO. 63108
314-977-3989

Dan,
The IT staff has provided proctors...kind-of...since we started exams on
computers. We don't have anyone in the room and never have (the faculty
voted against it). However, once we started with Securexam, I felt that
the IT people needed to be available during the exam...it's a peace of
mind thing as much as anything. We sit in the forum (the area outside
the main exam rooms) and help before, during, and after, if needed. I
don't feel as though my student employees would be viewed with providing
the same reassurance as the IT staff although I was tempted this year as
I'm down one staff person.
We collect cell phones prior to the exam. I had not, however, considered
the use of a scanning device. I believe the honor code must be relied on
as if a student really wants to cheat, s/he will find a way to do so.
Cyndi

Cyndi Dean
Assistant Dean for Information Technology
UNM School of Law
(505) 277-0695

-----Original Message-----
From: teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu

******************CORRECTION************************

The software I was talking about was EXAM4, by Extegrity, NOT ExamSoft.
The error was just (within the last 60 sec) brought to my attention by
the good folks at ExamSoft, who were VERY gracious in accepting my
repeated (and embarrassed) apologies for inadvertently maligning their
product.

Everything I detailed in my attempt to help did occur, but with Exam4,
which pretty much makes my commentary irrelevant.

I am truly sorry for the mix-up in names, and for any
inconvenience/hardship this has caused.

Heidi Simon, JD
Strand Fellow in Legal Technology
Courtroom21 Project
William & Mary School of Law
Williamsburg, VA 23185

I was wondering how other Law Schools or even other undergraduate
universities handle online testing, specifically the rules and
procedures students have to follow to setup their computer for online
testing AND any other rules or procedures for timeframes to arrive to
these testing and how your school enforces these rules.

Any info or experience you can give me will be appreciated.

Donna

Donna M Patterson
Associate Administrator of Technology
Valparaiso University School of Law
465-7843

Grant,
 
We had over 160 exams today.   6 freezes out of
160.   Three of those were with Windows ME.  One was
with WindowsXP, but appeared to be a screen saver issue in XP.  I do not
know about the other two.    All rebooted back into the software
with no lost data. 
 
Gary
 
 
 
Gary MooreAssistant Dean For Information SystemsHofstra University
School of Law href="mailto:lawgpm@hofstra.edu">lawgpm@hofstra.eduPhone (516)
463-6067Fax (516) 463-6091
 
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