Third party content can be used to supplement course materials or take the place of a class without sufficient time for faculty to create a recorded lecture. The most versatile of these, in that it covers a plethora of legal subjects, is CALI (Computer Assisted Legal Instruction). The law school maintains a subscription to this service for faculty and students. The remaining resources are broken down into type of resource or subject area covered.
CALI.org (Computer Assisted Legal Instruction) offers tutorials on a variety of legal topics. Created by professors and librarians from across the country, each CALI "lesson" provides content with quiz questions on that content embedded in the lesson. Faculty can assign a lesson from the site or create their own "Lesson Link" which allows you to select lessons to use in your course, generating customized links for each lesson which can then be posted to Blackboard. The benefit of using Lesson Link rather than just linking to a lesson directly on the CALI site is that Lesson Links allow you to track individual student completions, view which questions were missed by each student and the class as a whole and see how long it took for each student to complete the lesson. CALI also provides a list of lessons linked to specific concepts in many legal subject areas. See the links below or contact Lori Corso for more information.
To set up a faculty CALI account:
1. Go to www.cali.org
2. Click on Register in the upper right
3. Complete the form using your law school email address and this authorization code: VILNOVfac223 (it is case sensitive)
CALI Links
Student Instructions for Accessing CALI--Post to Blackboard Along with Lesson Link:
When posting a CALI link to Blackboard, please paste the following account setup instructions as well as not every student has signed into CALI before:
CALI Student Account Registration:
1. Go to www.cali.org
2. Click “Register” on the right
3. Complete the form using the authorization code: VILNOVstu223 (it is case sensitive)
4. Please use your law school email address
5. Click “I agree” and then click “Create New Account”
Additional resources provided by CALI:
West Academic Assessment "includes over 5,000 customizable, formative multiple-choice self-assessment questions that are:
Additional resources will further provide students with meaningful feedback, including:
Access for Faculty:
For more details, see these Faculty Instructions, Screen Shot examples of Faculty and Student views, and student instructions.
