A starting screen for the exam software GW uses.
Extegrity, the exam software GW uses. Extegrity bills itself as “the armored word processor” because it locks down your computer so you can't access any other programs while it's running. It allows you to do one thing, and one thing only: Take essay and short answer exams. GW passes out a floppy to everyone who takes their exam on a computer and you have to save your exam to the floppy and that's what you actually hand in. Extegrity auto-saves your exam to your hard drive every few minutes in an encrypted format that you'll never be able to access again except through some arcane Extegrity process that requires more mojo than I know, but it's supposed to allow you to hand in a backup copy if something happens to your floppy. Extegrity is now also offering a floppy-free option to allow users to turn in their exams over a wireless network, but GW would apparently rather deal w/floppies. Whateva. The big problem w/Extegrity is that it's Windoze-only. I hate that. I took my last Extegrity exam of this semester last Monday. Today's exam is 80 multiple choice questions in three hours—machine-scored. That means I'll be filling in 80 little bubbles with a #2 pencil, so no computer necessary.
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