ExamSoft and Computer Exams
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Important Deadline
You must notify Kerri Pelton (Law Clinic, Room 253; (785) 670-1693; kerri.pelton [at] washburn.edu) of your intention to take specific examinations using your laptop. This notification should list each exam you will take on computer, including midterms. Once you notify Ms. Pelton, she will place instructions in your student folder on downloading SofTest and registering your computer with ExamSoft. If you used SofTest during the Fall 2007 semester, you do not need to download again (unless you are using a different computer). You must download and register by Friday, April 11, 2008.
Cost
The fee for using ExamSoft is $20. The fee covers your ExamSoft registration for the entire school year. If you paid the fee for the fall semester, you do not pay again for the spring semester. Checks should be made payable to the Washburn University School of Law and given to Kerri Pelton by the deadlines above.
Courses
Courses in which professors have indicated that they will allow use of ExamSoft this semester include:
- Administrative Law (Wine)
- Alternative Dispute Resolution (Rute)
- Civil Procedure I (Glashausser and Concannon)
- Civil Procedure II (Bahadur)
- Constitutional Law I (Merkel and Rich)
- Contracts (Griffin and Schwartz)
- Criminal Procedure I (Kaye and Ramirez)
- Criminal Procedure II (Ramirez)
- Employment Discrimination (Duncan)
- Employment Law (Williams)
- Evidence (Concannon)
- Family Law (Maxwell)
- Insurance (Moline)
- Juvenile Offender (Fritz)
- Patent Law (Reader)
- Public International Law (Merkel)
- Remedies (Schwartz)
- Secured Transactions (Griffin)
- State and Local Tax (DeFries)
- Tax of Individual Income (McMillan)
Restrictions
We use a version of SofTest which is internet based and requires wireless access. You do not need a disk drive on your computer. In order to use SofTest, however, you will need to have a laptop computer with the Microsoft/Windows operating system and a wireless card. If you do not have a wireless card, the Law School will check one out to you from the time when you register for the course until the end of the final exam period. Those wireless cards will be available at the circulation desk of the library. If you do not have an appropriate laptop computer, you will need to either borrow one or obtain a short term rental. Unfortunately, the Law School will not be able to provide computers to those who do not have one.
Apple Macintosh Users
Users with Apple MacBook or MacBook Pro laptops can run Windows through Apple’s Boot Camp software. Please note that ExamSoft does not provide support for the installation and configuration of Apple’s Boot Camp. VirtualPC and other similarly functioning virtualization/emulation software is not permitted as a means to run Windows XP for the sake of using SofTest.
