November 28, 2007 • 9:18 pm
Exam & Winter Break Hours:
Exam Period:
Sunday, December 2: 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m.
Monday, December 3 – Saturday, December 8: 7:30 a.m. – 2:00 a.m.
Sunday, December 9: 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m.
Monday, December 10 – Thursday, December 13: 7:30 a.m. – 2:00 a.m.
Friday, December 14 (last day of exams): 7:30 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Winter Break:
Saturday, December 15 – Sunday, January 13: 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
EXCEPTION:
Saturday – Tuesday, December 22 – 25 – CLOSED
Saturday – Tuesday, December 29 – January 1 – CLOSED
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Filed under: Courts, SCOTUS
November 20, 2007 • 11:43 pm
Go to the start menu, control panel.
Once in the control panel select administrative tools. Then select services. Maximize the screen size and scroll down the list of services until you see McAfee Firewall Security service on the left side of the list. You will see its status should be listed by default as started. You will now right click on this item and select stop service. Once it is stopped you should now be able to run the exam software properly. Please remember that when you reboot the computer this service will start again. So you will have to do this for each exam if you have restarted the computer in between exams. If you wanted to disable this service during the entire exam period you can go to the same line and right click on the Firewall service and select properties. In the general field you will see startup type. To disable the firewall permanently select disable. You can come back any time to this service and change it back to automatic after exams. Please test this out ahead of time to make sure it works for your version of Windows and McAfee. Let me know via email or phone if you have any questions or would like to meet with me to go over these steps.
Thanks,
Sean Farmer
sfarmer@ubalt.edu
410-837-4598
Filed under: exam software, exams
November 16, 2007 • 8:42 pm
At the session today, a student asked what they should do when something happened (laptop or software crash) and you want to get back to your exam to finish it.
1. Open the software.
2. When it asks whether to start a new exam or select previous exam, click on start new exam. We’ll come back to the first part at the end, when you’re not worried about the time.
3. Where it asks for your exam ID number, type in your blind grading exam number, followed by the letterA
For example, your exam number is 1485, you should type in 1485A
4 . Follow the rest of the steps as though you were starting a new exam and finish typing your exam. You may want to type PART TWO at the beginning, just to let your professor know that there is another part of your exam.
5. At the end of the exam, click on End Exam on the menu at the top and then submit your exam electronically.
6. Exit out of the exam software.
7. Re-open the exam software, and when you come to the screen where it asks if you want to start a new exam or select a previous exam, click on select previous exam. Highlight the exam that you haven’t submitted – the one without the “A” at the end of your exam number – and submit it electronically.
8. Exit the exam software.
9. Relax. Or start studying for your next exam.
Filed under: exam software, exams
November 13, 2007 • 9:54 pm
I have created a step-by-step presentation (caution, powerpoint) for how to download the software and get started on your exams. I was unable to put up slides for how to save and submit an exam, but that will be covered in the information sessions listed in the preceding post.
Important points to remember:
1. Log in to the wireless network before you start your exam
2. Save the exam before you submit it.
3. One of the most common glitches (in Vista especially) occurs because Norton Anti-virus/internet protection is running. To turn this off the student needs to right click on the Norton icon in the bottom right corner next to the time, usually it is a yellow and black circle, and select disable Norton internet security/antivirus.
Filed under: Law School, exams
November 5, 2007 • 3:29 pm
If you are planning to take an exam on your laptop this semester, I strongly suggest that you attend one of our information sessions, as the software changes from semester to semester. Sessions will last about 45 minutes and will cover:
1. How to download the exam.
2. How to set up your laptop to take the exam.
3. How to submit your exam over the wireless network.
4. Some known problems and what to do about them.
The session dates are:
- November 15th 6:20pm Moot Court Room
- November 16th 1:00pm BC Auditorium
- November 16th 5:30pm Moot Court Room
- November 20th 12:00pm Moot Court Room
I’ll be posting problems and solutions on this blog as we discover them.
Filed under: Law School, exams
November 1, 2007 • 5:02 pm
