Take Home Exam Information

The take home exam period is posted on the academic calendar. Exams are self-scheduled by the student and may be completed at any time between 12:01am on the opening day, and 11:59pm on the closing day of the exam period. The duration of the exam is determined by the instructor, though no take home exam may exceed 24 hours.

Take home exams, like other exams, are taken using a blind grading system. Exam numbers for take home exams are distributed to students in advance of the take home exam period. Exam questions and answers are downloaded and uploaded to a secure web site, thus permitting students to complete take home exams at their convenience, from any location accessible to the internet. The installation of special software is not required for the completion of take homes.

Anyone experiencing any problems with a take home exam should email the registrar's office.

How to access a take home exam:

• Go to www.exam4.com
• Click on "Law schools" (upper left)
• From the list, under 'U', find and click on "University of Connecticut School of Law"
• Under “Select Take Home exam”, click on your exam.
• In the next screen, enter your Exam ID and click on “Continue”
• Put a check on “Confirm” and click on the “View exam question” button. Note: The clock starts at this moment. Please Note: you do not have downloaded software to take a take home exam.
• Click on the red link “Click Here to Download the Exam Question File” to get the questions. Download the file and save it in your computer.
• Close/Exit the Exam4 web page.
• When you are ready to submit your answer, repeat steps 1-5 from above.
• Go to Section 3b, click “Confirm” to indicate you are ready to Upload exam answer.
• Click On “Go to: Upload Exam Answer”.
• Go to section “5> Upload a non-Exam4” exam file. Click on the Browse button to locate the file with your answers and click Submit.

Supported file formats are:

.DOC - Word document
.DOCX - Word 2007 document
.WPD - WordPerfect document
.ODT - OpenOffice document
.PDF - Adobe PDF
.TXT - plain text file
.RTF - Rich Text format

PRACTICE TAKE HOME EXAM DIRECTIONS

• Go to www.exam4.com
• Click on "Law schools" (upper left)
• From the list, under 'U', find and click on "University of Connecticut School of Law"
• Under “Select Take Home exam”, click on FALL10 PRACTICE EXAM.
• In the next screen, enter the Exam ID (your PeopleSoft ID), and click on “Continue”
• Put a check on “Confirm” and click on the “View exam question” button. Note: The clock starts at this moment. Please Note: you do not have downloaded software to take a take home exam.
• Click on the red link “Click Here to Download the Exam Question File” to get the questions. Download the file and save it in your computer.
• Close/Exit the Exam4 web page.
• When you are ready to submit your answer, repeat steps 1-5 from above.
• Go to Section 3b, click “Confirm” to indicate you are ready to Upload exam answer.
• Click On “Go to: Upload Exam Answer”.
• Go to section “5> Upload a non-Exam4” exam file. Click on the Browse button to locate the file with your answers and click Submit.