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New Laws Take Effect in 31 States in 2008
Read all about ‘em: beSpacific: New Laws Take Effect in 31 States in 2008
Filed under: Cool links
December 27, 2007 • 3:26 pm 0
There’s a fortune to be made….
… for the person who can come up with a Kindle-like device that students can use instead of having to schlep around a ton of textbooks, especially in law school. And bringing down the prices of those books wouldn’t be a bad thing either. For further reading:
Law School Innovation: Advances in Book-Hauling Technologies
Law Librarian Blog: Why Kindle Won’t Be Adopted by Law School Students
for a pro-Kindle viewpoint, read: Another Perspective on the Kindle.
Filed under: Law School
December 21, 2007 • 1:41 pm 0
Friday Fun: LawTunes CDs – The Perfect Gift for a Lawyer
December 18, 2007 • 4:55 pm 0
For our December Grads: A Quick Look at LawCrossing
Filed under: Law School, jobs
December 10, 2007 • 2:11 pm 0
How To Search the SECs EDGAR Database The Virtual Chase
Courtesy of the folks at the Virtual Chase: How To Search the SECs EDGAR Database
Filed under: Cool links, research guides, video
December 7, 2007 • 3:00 pm 0
from Law X.0: Two New Online Law Student Run Publications
Two New Online Law Student Run Publications
are launched. I like the concept. I wonder how long it will be before some of the more mainstream law journals go online?
Filed under: Law School, law journals
December 4, 2007 • 7:58 pm 0
November updates for LLRX.com
beSpacific: New on LLRX.com for November 2007
More really cool (and useful) links.
Filed under: Cool links, research guides
December 3, 2007 • 6:25 pm 2
Updated Exam Software FAQ – Fall 2007
EXAM SOFTWARE FAQ
Where to get the exam software: www.exam4.com
Common Problems:
- Sometimes the student’s laptop can’t pass the security check and/or the exam can’t be submitted successfully even though they’ve re-logged on to the network. Solution: Make sure that all their anti-virus software (Norton, McAfee) is disabled. McAffe is a little tricky and has its own section (at the end)
What to do if the laptop crashes in the middle of an exam and the student wants to continue typing
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.
Error 317 or Error 6 Messages:
Advisory - When starting an exam, a small number of students may receive a Security Check violation of “firewall error 317″. They should be directed to re-download Exam4. Confirm the operating system is Windows XP and that on reinstallation they are now running Exam4 release 7.5a (indicated on top left of startup screens).
The McAfee Security Problem (which keeps them from submitting an exam successfully)
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.
Filed under: Law School, exam software, exams
