RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless for Exams

2010-08-18 Thread Chuck Enfield
Our Law School is successfully using wireless for exams. I don't know all the details, but the software is called Exam 4. It's marketed specifically to law schools, but it would probably work for any essay exam application. The client software, which is installed on a laptop owned by the student

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless for Exams

2010-08-18 Thread heath.barnhart
We are not doing it here, but if asked I would advise against it do to wireless networks being a shared contentious medium. If you could confine the signal to a specific area were the testing would be going on, then it might be ok, as only the people in the testing area would have access to the

Wireless for Exams

2010-08-18 Thread Johnson, Neil M
We are getting inquiries concerning the use of the wireless network for computer based exams in large lecture halls. Although we provide coverage in most of our lecture halls, our current policy states that given the unlicensed nature of 802.11 spectrum we can't guarantee network availability a