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Thursday, April 28, 2005

Mac exam software

One of the major stumbling points keeping students from using Macs in law school has always been lack of exam-taking software... until now (of course, not having exam software hasn't stopped a lot of folks from using Macs, myself included). Software Secure in march released a Mac OS X version of their test taking suite, allowing those of us with iBooks and PowerBooks to type our exams instead of writing them in traditional bluebooks. While this will allow quite a few people to participate in electronic exam taking who could not before, even more importantly it removes one of the last barriers to law students switching to the Mac. The software works by locking you out of your computer, restricting you only to a very limited word processor while you type your exam answers. When you're finished the answer is saved (and encrypted, no doubt) to your hard drive. Currently for the Mac version exam proctors will use USB disk-on-key devices to collect the answers (I expect a WiFi enabled version will arrive shortly).

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