Your midterm exam is now available 

The midterm is entirely ON line at this URL:

http://zebu.uoregon.edu/123test.html

Note:

1.  Your login name is your last name*.  The first letter should
be capitalized and any other letters that are capitalized in your
name should be so.  Therefore, your login should be something like

Jones  not jones

or

McDuffy not Mcduffy

*those of you with the same last name will have a login name where
the first letter of your first name is also capitalized.  Therefore,
suppose there is a Bob Jones and a Kristi Jones in class.  Their
respective login names would be BJones and KJones.  Try this in case
your straight last name doesn't work.


2.  Your password is the last 4 digits of your UO ID number.

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                        READ THIS!!!!!

3.  It is generally a good idea when taking these exams to use another
application to actually write out your answers (for the essay questions)
and then cut and paste
from that application into the exam page running in your browser.
Therefore if your machine should crash while filling in the exam answers on 
the exam page (this does happen) or you have trouble submitting the exam, 
you will still have a record of your answers, stored in some file on your
machine, that you can paste back into the exam page if you need to take the 
exam again.  

I recommend using Notepad in Windows as a generic text editor for this 
purpose.

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4.  THERE IS A FOUR HOUR TIME LIMIT TO TAKE THIS EXAM.  Your login is
time stamped from where you first access the exam to when you submit it.

5.  I am well aware that there is no control over people consulting the
web notes and the entire Internet when taking this exam.  That's fine -
the questions have been designed with that in mind.  Just make sure that
you do not cut and paste from the web lecture notes and call that an
answer to the question.

6.  In the past there has been collaborative test taking among various
students or student groups. This is not allowed; each person needs to 
take the exam by themselves.  Note: collaboration on exams is *easy* to detect:

    a) the submitted answers are identical or at least highly similar

    b) the times the exam was accessed and submitted are also quite
       similar

So don't do this.  You will be detected.