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 HomeCALI 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 securely publish the quizzes to the CALI website and lets students take the quizzes as formative assessments, either live in class or as homework, right on the CALI website, where most students already have an account. Faculty can view the basic results or access advanced analytic reporting from an online dashboard. Download of results to Excel for further analysis is available.

Our goals in creating QuizWright are to give faculty a straight forward way to create and distribute formative assessments for their students that doesn’t require the installation of additional software, to provide a tool that is intuitive to use and doesn’t require extensive training for faculty, to leverage proven CALI tools and resources that are already familiar to most students and many faculty, and to make legal education better.

1. Login to CALI website

The place to get started is www.cali.org, the CALI website. Log in with your faculty level account and you’ll have instant access to QuizWright. No account? No worries! Virtually all US law schools are CALI members and faculty, librarians, and staff at member schools have full access to a wide range of CALI resources and tools including QuizWright. To register and create an account you’ll need your school’s authorization Faculty have access to a wide range of CALI tools and resource code. Check out the CALI law school contacts page to find out who to ask for the authorization code at your school. With the code registration just takes a minute and then you’ll have access to a wide array of CALI resources and tools

2. Go to QuizWright app

Pick QuizWright from the CALI Dashboard menuOnce you’re logged in to the CALI website you can find the link to QuizWright in the CALI Dashboard dropdown menu at the top of the page. Clicking the link will take you right into QuizWright.

Before you get started creating questions and quizzes we Update your QuizWright profilesuggest you take a minute to create a profile on QuizWright. Click on the My Profile link in the left hand menu of QuizWright. The information you enter in this profile is included in the quizzes you create, appearing on the title page of the quiz.

3. Add questions

Pick the type of question you want to createTo start adding questions just click on New and then Question in the left menu. The question creation process starts with a choice of question type. QuizWright handles True/False, Yes/No, and Multiple Choice questions. For T/F and Y/N questions you enter the text of the question and select the correct response. For MC questions you enter the text of the question, the correct choice and up to 3 additional incorrect responses. Optionally you can enter brief feedback for the student that is displayed after the question is answered.

We strongly suggest you write out the questions and answers before you fire up QuizWright so you have something to work with. Once you’ve entered a question you can use the buttons at the bottom to either Add another question or Prepare the Quiz. Questions are saved in your personal question bank.

4. Create a quiz

Select the questions to include in a new quizOnce you’ve entered the last question you want to include in your quiz hit the Prepare the Quiz button to bundle your questions into a quiz. You’ll see a listing of your questions. Check the one’s you want to include in your new quiz and hit the Add a new quiz button to open a new Quiz page.

Add a title and brief description in the appropriate fields on Add information aout the quizthe Quiz Information form. This will be displayed on the quiz’s page on the CALI website and included in the quiz itself. Optionally you can add some text for introduction and conclusion pages. These will be shown at the beginning and end of the quiz if you chose to create them. Finally hit the Save Quiz button.

5. Publish the quiz

Click button to publish quizSaving the quiz takes you to the Quiz Detail page. You can save and edit the quiz from this page, but we’re interested in the Publish Quiz button. Click on that button to publish your quiz to the CALI website. Once that button is clicked you are taken to the CALI website, your QuizWright quiz is published and it’s ready for your students to take. You can get the link your students need to take the quiz by clicking on the View tab at the upper right of the edit page you landed on when the Quiz was published and copying the address from the address bar of your browser or you get the link from the email that is sent to you when you publish the quiz. The URL for your quiz should look something like https://www.cali.org/aplesson/17044 where the number part at the end is unique to your Quiz.

Once your students have the link they can click on it and take the quiz like they would A QuizWright quiz on the CALI websiteany CALI Lesson. They will need to have a valid account on and be logged in to the CALI website in order to take a QuizWright quiz. You can see students results in real time by following the link yourself and launching the quiz. Your special faculty view of the Quiz allows you to see student results in real time. You can review results later by clicking on the AutoPublish link in the CALI Dashboard dropdown menu at the top of the page.

And there you have it, Zero to Quiz in 5 minutes (or so) with just 5 quick steps to follow. QuizWright has a lot more features for authoring and managing questions and quizzes but this brief overview should be enough to get you started working with formative assessments and CALI QuizWright. If you have any questions about QuizWright or any other CALI tools or resources check out the CALI FAQs or drop me a note at emasters@cali.org.

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Announcing two (2) new legal education podcasts in Contracts (1Ls)

Posted on November 22, 2017 by scottlee

NOW AVAILABLE! CALI has two (2) new podcasts under the legal education topic – “Contracts” (). Check them out along with our newly released CALI Lessons.

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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 bookstore
  • updated AutoPublish to set default state of new resources to published
  • modified AutoPublish to send location URL back to QuizWright when a new quiz is published
  • added check to Auto Publish to prevent the same QuizWright quiz from being published more than once
  • added QuizWright link to CALI Dashboard menu for faculty, librarians, staff at member schools
  • QuizWright updates
    • added a quiz id to the XML being generated so publishing platform can talk back to authoring
    • fixed a layout issue in the question listing
    • added location and publishdate fields to the data model
    • altered UI to indicate a quiz has been published and provide links to the published version of the quiz
    • hitting the publish button in QW now immediately publishes the quiz on CALI website
    • published quizzes cannot be edited

 

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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 7.x-2.2
  • Services module updated to 7.x-3.20
  • Numerous changes to AutoPublish
    • added alert for anonymous users directing them to login or register to use assigned lesson or quiz
    • added CSV download of student results for each AutoPublish resource to allow teachers to have better access to student work
    • lessons and quizzes sent to AutoPublish are now marked as published by default in Drupal making them immediately available to students
    • updated AutoPublish FAQs to reflect change in publishing default
  • Changes to QuizWright

 

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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 for the release of QuizWright the following updates were made to the CALI website:

  • The salutation in the AutoPublish email was fixed to include the teacher’s first name.
  • The format of the URL listed in the AutoPublish email was changed to match the listing on the AutoPublish dashboard.
  • The AutoPublish dashboard was refreshed to list published AutoPublish resources on the first AutoPublish page.
  • LessonLink was updated to add AutoPublish resources to the topic pick list. This lets teachers add AutoPublish resources to LessonLink sets displayed on Courses pages.
  • The email sent when LessonLinks are created was updated to include AutoPublish resources that are part of the LessonLink set.

Updates to www.classcaster.net

The Classcaster network was updated to WordPress 4.8. All available plugin and theme updates were applied.

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2017 CALI Summer Intern – Law Student Opportunity

Posted on May 18, 2017 by John Mayer

a2j author

CALI Seeking Summer Intern(s)

tl;dr

  • Pay is $15/hour
  • 1L, 2L, 3L
  • Ends 9/1/17 or when your summer ends
  • Work from home or from the CALI Chicago offices in West Loop
  • 10-30 hours per week
  • Legal research, technology, access to justice,
  • No special tech experience required – we will train you

CALI is seeking a (just finished) 1L or 2L or heck, even a 3L who wants to do some awesome summer work on various CALI projects.  We have work lined up that is related to our A2J Author project that involves researching the laws behind court forms and testing software for legal process automation.  We will train you in the use of A2J Author.  

CALI is a fun and challenging group to work with.  We work at the cutting edge of using technology in legal education and access to justice at scale.  You will be exposed to all kinds of new ideas and you will be an important member of the team.

Send cover letter and resume/CV to Jessica Frank (jessica@cali.org) to apply.  We will be hiring at least one intern right away, so the sooner you apply the better.  

 

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5 Reasons Why You Should Attend CALIcon17

Posted on May 17, 2017 by scottlee

CALIcon17 June 15-16 Phoenix AZ

We hope you’ve received an invite to attend CALIcon17, the 27th Annual CALI Conference for Law School Computing and you might be wondering, “is this worth my time?” Yes! Here’s why…

  1. Education & Learning: The education program will be a robust lineup of 30+ session.  You will leave with an understanding of how forward-thinking professionals are implementing best practices to transform and improve the legal education community.

  2. Value-added:  Budgets are tight. Meals, snacks and Reception are included with your registration fee and we are keeping the same low fee of $295 to make it affordable. Click here to see what else is included.

  3. Keynote – Michael Caulfield: Collaboration and Control: Building the New Collaborative Web –  “In the grand battle between collaborative and expressive web technologies in education, expressive technologies won. We engage our students in forums, talk to them in Slack, have them write personal blogs. Wiki, once considered a contender in the blogs vs. wikis Battle Royale, has fallen by the wayside. This keynote will examine some of the reasons behind the decline, talk about the risks such a decline poses, and sketch out a possible future for the web which envisions a better balance of collaboration, expression, and personal control.”

  4. We are starting off the conference with a Drum Circle Experience which will inject energy into the community that is at the heart of CALI Conferences.

    Facilitator: John Fitzgerald – “This playful and creative approach to experiencing the present moment is a wonderful way to address the stresses of life, requires no musical experience, and is accessible to absolutely everyone. Drum circles and other facilitated rhythm experiences create connections both to our own unique value and with those around us, creating a sense of bonding and community.”

  5. Networking:  With 300+ legal educators, law librarians, and tech professionals, you can build and strengthen connections with others in the community, swap stories, and find colleagues with whom you can share experiences.

 

Thank you to our SPONSORS!
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CALI Civil Procedure Fellowship Opportunity

Posted on May 9, 2017 by scottlee

I am attaching announcement for the CALI Civil Procedure Fellowship beginning in June 2017.  Previously, we have conducted Fellowship projects in a number of subjects, including

– Criminal Law,
– Property,
– Torts,
– Business Organizations,
– Remedies,
– Copyright Law,
– Trademarks,
– Administrative Law,
– Family Law and
– Criminal Procedure.

Please share these announcements with faculty who may be interested in participating.

The CALI Fellowship is a unique program that will allow faculty to examine familiar concepts in a new light for teaching in a web-based and interactive environment.

Previous Fellowships have resulted in the addition of over 400 new lessons over the past few years due to the excellent work of the CALI Fellows. With the addition of a Civil Procedure Fellowship, CALI strives to make more educational materials available to students and faculty.

Faculty do NOT need computer knowledge or programming experience. Basic familiarity with word processing, email and web browsing is assumed. The Fellows will use CALI Author to create the Civil Procedure materials. Visit http://go.cali.org/e/146571/content-cali-fellowships/jk1r8/36513409 for more details.

CALI staff will work closely with the Fellows to insure a positive and productive experience. If you have any questions, contact Deb Quentel, CALI’s Director of Curriculum Development / Associate Counsel at dquentel@cali.org or by telephone, 312-906-5353.

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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 to be a great conference. We’re going to be reviewing the proposals over the next few weeks and speakers will be notified by May 3rd if their session(s) are accepted.

As part of the review process we’re asking the community to vote on the sessions they would like to see on the agenda at CALIcon17. Your votes let us know which sessions you would like to see on the conference agenda. Voting is live now and will remain open until
Friday April 21, 2017. The number of votes for a session will be taken into consideration as part of the session acceptance process and to help with scheduling.

To vote you just need to visit the complete session list at http://cca.li/161, click on the session you want to vote for, and give it a thumbs up. You can vote for as many sessions as you’d like.  You do not need to be registered for the conference to vote. All sessions
will be recorded and available online after the conference, so feel free to vote even if you’re not planning on attending in person.

Speakers are free to campaign for votes including using social media to let folks know about the conference. We do ask that you use the hashtag #CALIcon17 in any posts about the conference.

CALIcon17 is Thursday and Friday, June 15 & 16, 2017 at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law Arizona State University, Phoenix AZ.

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A2J Author: Experiential Learning, Access to Justice & Technology Enabled Law Practice

Posted on March 14, 2017 by John Mayer

I gave a short (35 minutes) presentation as part of the AALS Clinical Law Section – Technology Committee Webinar Series today.  The video is embedded above.

The slides are here…  The first slide is a link back to the video.

 

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