Electronic Exams

All students who plan to take an electronic final exam must register and download the latest version of Exam4, the School of Law's electronic exam software, every testing period.

We strongly recommend that you download the exam software no later than a week before your first exam. This will give you time to determine if you have a problem with your laptop or with the program that you need to resolve. Students who encounter difficulties using the Exam4 software during the exam period should expect to handwrite exams.

The user interface for both Windows and Mac are now the same. The only operational difference between a Mac and Windows laptop is you must supply the Mac laptop password to install the Exam4 program, turn the Wireless network connection off prior to using in the Closed and Open modes, and then to turn the Wireless connection back on so you may Submit Electronically.

This short video on Using Exam4 in Closed Mode uses a Mac for demonstration.

You must register and download the current version of Exam4 each semester to get the current course listing. Students should submit a practice exam every semester to ensure that the software will properly function on their computers.
You should take a practice exam in each assigned computer mode.

Please make sure that you leave enough time before the start of your exam to prepare your computer and take a practice exam. Student laptops connected to the School-of-Law network must have the latest Windows critical updates and updated antivirus software. Exam time is an especially important time to make certain that your computer is secure.

Submit an Existing Exam

New Features

Downloading and Installing Exam4

Preparing Your Computer for Exams

Before the start of the scheduled exam period you should take sensible measures to prevent infection by malicious code, which may result in the loss of papers, outlines, or even exams. The health of your machine is your responsibility.

If you begin to take an exam with an infected computer, your access to the network will be shut down, and you will not be able to submit electronically. After the exam, you should turn in your exam envelope to the Proctor, notify them of the situation, and then bring your computer to the IT office, room 248. IT personnel will take all reasonable steps to extract your exam answer from your computer. Please realize that if malicious code has damaged your exam answer, you will only be graded on what can be retrieved. You must have your machine cleaned before you can take another exam using your computer.

To ensure the health of your computer, you must take the following steps before the exam period begins. We recommend that you follow them in this order.

Backup all of your data (outlines, etc.) to a disk, removable drive, CD, etc. Make sure that you back up your study materials often during exams.

Update your virus scanning software. Set it to update your virus definitions regularly (at least once a week, but preferably every day). Students must have a functioning, updated antivirus software product running at all times while on our network. You may purchase Symantec AntiVirus at the circulation desk of the Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HS/HSL).

After updating your virus software, scan your machine for viruses.

Run an anti-spyware utility such as Ad-Aware or Trend Micro�s online House Call product.

Ad-Aware is no longer free for personal use but the cost is low. Be sure to always run the update feature to download the latest anti-spyware definitions for your particular program before using it to scan your laptop files and folders. Ad-Aware is available at http://www.tucows.com/.

Run your Windows� operating system updates and apply any critical updates. Windows updates are available on http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com. This step is extremely important. It is best done while here at the law school where the download time is very fast. While the updates are installed on your computer, make sure your computer does not go into sleep mode or get disconnected during the process of installation.

Taking a Practice Exam

You should take practice exams in all exam modes (Closed, Open, or Open with Network) in which you will be tested. You must be connected to the Internet and can test your Internet connection by pointing your browser to a few web pages before starting Exam4. You cannot take an exam without an Internet connection.

Start the Exam4 program by double-clicking on the Exam4 icon. Vista users right-click and Run as Administrator. Select Prepare to start new exam and then click Next. Exam4 will display any previous exams or practice tests that you have taken using the same laptop.
Check your network connection from within the program by clicking on the box beside Check network connection.
Enter practice as your Exam ID, you do this twice. You should also enter your name under Optional/Protected Info; your professor does not see this information. By using this protected field we can identify
Select your course from both lists. Click Next.
Set your exam time and reminder alerts. Setting the Timing Function is optional. If used it will provide �Time Remaining� personal prompts that will allow you enough time to finish typing and complete the submission of your exam within the allotted time. Click the �Next� button.
Set your font size. This will not affect the way your instructor sees the exam. Click Next.
Read the Notice of Instructions and place a check in the Got it? box. Click Next.
Type Closed or Open or Open Network as your selected Exam Mode in the boxes which appear.
Place a check in the confirmation checkbox and then click Next.
Your exam choices will display for verification. Make sure that you have entered the correct Exam ID and Course. Use the Back button if you need to make a change.
Click Begin Exam. The system security check will begin if Closed mode is selected.
Type your answer to the first question.
Go to the menu and select Tools. Then select Insert Answer Separation. You should place answer separations between all of your answers to clearly define which question you are answering. After adding an answer separation you only need to enter the number.
When you are ready to end the practice exam, select End Exam then End Exam Now from the menu.
Click the checkbox to Confirm and click OK, end exam.
Click Submit Electronically. You should receive the message: Your file has been stored on the server. Click OK.
You will receive a summary of the number of sections. If you did not insert Answer Separations you will only have one section. Click the checkbox linked to I understand. Click OK.
You should now have a window that shows that 100% of your exam has been stored. Click Close.
Go to File and Save Options on the menu. Select Exit. Check I'm sure and then click Exit Exam4.

Exam Day Preparation

This page was last updated on April 15, 2013.