Author Archives: Elmer Masters

About Elmer Masters

Elmer R. Masters is the Director of Technology at the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (www.cali.org) where he works on interesting projects involving technology and legal education like eLangdell, Classcaster, Lawbooks, QuizWright, and the CALI website. He has over 30 years of experience building tech tools for legal education and systems for accessing law and legal materials on the Internet. He is the admin of the Teknoids mailing list (www.teknoids.net) and has been blogging about legal education, law, and technology for over 20 years (www.symphora.com). He has a JD from Syracuse University College of Law and was employed by Syracuse, Cornell Law School, and Emory University School of Law before joining CALI in 2003. Elmer has presented at the CALI Conference for Law School Computing (where he organizes the program), the AALL and AALS Annual Meetings, Law Via The Internet, and other conferences, symposia, and workshops on topics ranging from IT management in law schools to building open access court reporting systems to information architecture design and implementation in law.

CALI Tech Briefing 07/14/2023 – Notes

Posted on July 20, 2023 by Elmer Masters

Notes from the 2nd CALI Tech Briefing. The briefing was focused on AI and CALI’s work in that space. I talked about building a small BERT model following this blog article and the code from this jupyter notebook. I used … Continue reading →

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CALI Tech Briefing 06/30/2023 – Notes

Posted on June 30, 2023 by Elmer Masters

Notes for the first CALI Tech Briefing of 2023. Classcaster – https://www.classcaster.net/ – is the WordPress based blogging network that CALI runs for its membership. If you’re at a CALI member school or organization you can create a blog there. … Continue reading →

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QuizWright gets a Question Bank

Posted on July 16, 2018 by Elmer Masters

We’ve added a Question Bank feature to CALI QuizWright®, our formative assessment system. The new feature uses multiple choice questions selected from CALI Contracts Lessons. The 150+ contracts questions are available to everyone who uses QuizWright. Over the course of … Continue reading →

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CHANGELOG 2/27/2018

Posted on February 27, 2018 by Elmer Masters

Updates to www.cali.org added Views exports to enhance reporting move AutoPublish functionality toward a full API to allow for broader self-publishing of resources better email for QuizWright creation auto login to QuizWright when following menu link from CALI Dashboard fixed … Continue reading →

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Zero to Quiz in 5 Minutes: Getting Started With CALI QuizWright in 5 Quick Steps

Posted on January 11, 2018 by Elmer Masters

CALI QuizWright™ is a web app that lets law faculty write individual Multiple Choice, True/False, and Yes/No questions, saves the questions in a personal question bank, builds quizzes with the questions from the bank, uses CALI AutoPublish to instantly and … Continue reading →

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CHANGELOG 8/23/2017

Posted on August 23, 2017 by Elmer Masters

Note: CHANGELOG is an occasional feature letting you know about changes to various CALI websites. It is mostly technical in nature but may include initial listing of new features and resources. Updates to www.cali.org added database tracking of downloads to CALI … Continue reading →

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CHANGELOG 8/8/2017

Posted on August 8, 2017 by Elmer Masters

Note: CHANGELOG is an occasional feature letting you know about changes to various CALI websites. It is mostly technical in nature but may include initial listing of new features. Updates to www.cali.org Drupal updated to 7.56 References module updated to … Continue reading →

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CHANGELOG 7/19/2017

Posted on July 19, 2017 by Elmer Masters

Note: This is something new. CHANGELOG will be an occasional feature letting you know about changes to various CALI websites. It will be mostly technical in nature but will include initial listings of new features. Updates to www.cali.org In preparation … Continue reading →

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Vote for the sessions you’d like to see at CALIcon17

Posted on April 11, 2017 by Elmer Masters

First, thanks to everyone from the legal education community who submitted sessions for CALIcon17, the 27th Annual CALI Conference for Law School Computing. After a flurry of submissions late last week we have 58 proposed sessions featuring 79 speakers. It’s going … Continue reading →

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CALI Fall 2015 – Getting Registered

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Elmer Masters

Most of the good stuff on www.cali.org requires you to have a CALI account. Accounts are available for everyone at CALI member schools, all you need to do is register. Registration is very easy and should take about 2 minutes. … Continue reading →

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