Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless for Exams

2010-08-19 Thread Ryan Holland
Neil, We have a couple of professors that are spearheading a move towards using wireless for exams. We have added additional capacity to several classrooms to facilitate this endeavor. The professors have said this has been largely successful. In a class of ~250-300 students, the students

Wireless for Exams

2010-08-18 Thread Johnson, Neil M
We are getting inquiries concerning the use of the wireless network for computer based exams in large lecture halls. Although we provide coverage in most of our lecture halls, our current policy states that given the unlicensed nature of 802.11 spectrum we can't guarantee network availability

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless for Exams

2010-08-18 Thread heath.barnhart
We are not doing it here, but if asked I would advise against it do to wireless networks being a shared contentious medium. If you could confine the signal to a specific area were the testing would be going on, then it might be ok, as only the people in the testing area would have access to