Quarantine or Isolation
Contact Grace Lee, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, at glee@law.ua.edu or at 205-348-7190 as soon as you become aware of the need to limit contact or to isolate. You may be allowed to take your exam at home under these circumstances, although you will be required to provide documentation verifying that it is medically necessary for you to isolate or quarantine.
Anonymous Numbers
Your anonymous number can be found on your DegreeWorks page.
Electronic Casebooks
If your exam uses the “secure” version of Examplify, then you will not be able to access your electronic casebook via your computer during the exam. If your exam uses a “non-secure” version of Examplify but does not allow internet access, you will only be able to use your electronic casebook if you download it before you begin your exam. Please be aware that some electronic casebooks may not be downloadable. Please check with either the Law Library or with the Technology Department if you have questions about downloading your casebooks.
Backing up Files
Please review https://www.law.ua.edu/in/backups/ for suggestions on how to backup your files to avoid losing important documents (e.g., outlines and papers drafts).
Examplify: Make sure sure to download your exams via Examplify prior to taking your exams.
- Institution Id= “alabamalaw”
- User ID= Your CWID
- Password= Password that you received via your crimson.ua.edu e-mail
- Exam Number = Anonymous Number
- Exam Password= Code that you will receive from your proctor immediately before the exam begins
If you experience a problem with Examplify during your exam
- Perform a hard reset on your computer. Press and hold the power button until the computer shuts down and then press again to turn on. Examplify will resume after the reboot; you should then select “return to the exam”
- If Examplify continues to malfunction, report to the Registrar’s Office for further instruction. Please do not switch to an alternate method for writing your exam without first reporting to the Registrar’s Office. The Registrar’s Office will be open until the regularly scheduled end time for all scheduled exams. If you experience an issue with Examplify outside of these hours, please call Associate Dean Grace Lee at 312-371-4096.
- If you experienced issues with Examplify during your exam, please let the Registrar’s Office know when you submit your exam. You should let the Registrar’s Office know of any problems you experienced even if you were able to resolve them on your own by resetting your computer.
Anonymity (Non-Examplify)
You should use your Anonymous Number on any non-Examplify materials that you submit (e.g., any pledge sheets, Scantron forms, Bluebooks).
Scheduled Exams
All exams are scheduled exams unless designated a floating or take-home exam by the professor. If you are unsure whether your exam is scheduled or floating, please check with your professor.
Timing
- Scheduled exams must be taken at the scheduled time and date except under extraordinary circumstances.
- Please consult the Handbook for what constitutes an extraordinary circumstance.
- Any exam taken at a time other than the scheduled time due to extraordinary circumstances will be graded Pass/D/Fail.
- If you arrive late, you will not be given additional time.
- Barring prior approval due to extraordinary circumstances, if you fail to pick up your exam you will be given an “F.” Should an extraordinary circumstance arise, please contact the Registrar’s Office as soon as you are reasonably able to do so.
Location
- Room numbers for most scheduled exams are posted on the exam schedule. For larger exams, multiple rooms may be listed; in these cases, you will be sent an individual room assignment. Please report to the assigned room in order to pick up your exam.
- If you wish to take the exam in the computer lab, you must sign up using the sign up sheet in the Computer Lab.
- Unless explicitly allowed by your professor or otherwise instructed by the Registrar’s Office, you must complete the exam in the room to which you are assigned.
- If your professor allows you to take the exam outside the assigned room, you may take the exam in any part of the Law School that is freely open to students generally, with the following exceptions
- Area outside the Dean’s Office
- Area outside the window of the Registrar’s Office
- Area outside Room 187 and 188
- Third Floor
Floating & Take-Home Exams
Timing
- Floating exams may be picked up from the Registrar’s Office Monday – Friday during the following time periods
- 8:15 – 8:30 am
- 2:00 – 2:15 pm
- Floating exams that are 24- 36- or 48-hour exams may be picked up from the Registrar’s Office Monday – Friday during the following time periods
- 9:30am – 12:15 pm
- 2:15pm – 4:30 pm
- You are responsible for submitting your exam within the time limit specified on the exam. Exams submitted late are subject to penalties.
Location
- Except as listed below, you may take the exam in any part of the Law School that is freely open to students generally.
- Students are prohibited from taking exams in the following areas
- Area outside the Dean’s Office
- Area outside the window of the Registrar’s Office
- Area outside Room 187 and 188
Note: Examplify is not available for exams with a duration of 24 hours or longer.
Other General Reminders
Questions During the Exam
- All questions and issues regarding the content of the exam should be directed to the Registrar’s Office, which will then contact the professor. The professor’s response will be put on the board in the classroom only.
- Please do not contact the professor regarding any issue about the exam before grades have been posted for the class.
- Once you submit your exam, you are not allowed to return to it.
Courtesy Reminders
- Once you have completed your exam, please leave the area quietly and do not linger outside the classrooms, as there will be others completing their exams.
- While you are welcome to study in classrooms when they are not being used for exams, you must leave rooms in their original condition, e.g., clean up any trash and erase all writing from whiteboards. Rooms must be cleaned out by 7:00am the following morning. Any items remaining in a classroom at that time will be confiscated and may not be returned.
- While you are allowed to adjust the thermostats in our classrooms slightly, you should not adjust the temperature below 68 degrees or above 72 degrees, as doing so may damage our cooling and heating systems.
- Earplugs may be used to block out noise.
- You must stop typing when instructed to do so. Failure to comply with the proctor’s instructions to stop typing may result in sanctions.
Grades
The Registrar’s Office will work with faculty to release grades in a timely fashion. Please keep in mind that no second or third year grades will be released prior to January 8.
Honor Code
Please remember that every aspect of the examination process is subject to the provisions of the Honor Code of the Law School.
Additional information
Please see the Student Handbook and https://www.law.ua.edu/in/exams/ for additional information on exams.