About CALI
CALI, the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, is a non-profit consortium of U.S. law schools that conducts applied research in the area of computer-mediated legal education, and develops online interactive tutorials, CALI lessons, in many areas of the law to improve teaching and learning of the law.
CALI is best known in law schools for the web-based tutorials on a variety of legal subjects, CALI Lessons. CALI lessons are written by law professors and peer-reviewed by a member of the CALI Editorial Board. There are over 950 lessons in over 35 law school subjects in CALI's library of lessons and are free to all CALI member schools' students. Faculty are able to edit lessons to suit their curriculum needs and view students' answers and performance.
- CALI Lessons This link opens in a new window
CALI includes hundreds of lessons in a number of fields of law that law students can use to improve their comprehension.
Access restricted to FIU Law.
Sign on to CALI
Faculty and students of FIU College of Law will receive an authorization code to register on the CALI website and access the CALI lessons. Authorization codes allows unlimited use of CALI lessons which run in most browsers, smartphones and tablets, and access to ebooks from eLangdell Press.
To obtain an authorization code that lets you register on the CALI website and access the CALI lessons please Ask a Librarian.
Once you have your authorization code go CALI to register by clicking the "Register" link on the top right, and complete the form provided on the website. Once authorized as an FIU Law user using the code, you will create a unique user name and password to login; we recommend using your FIU email.
CALI Features
CALI offers many features to assist in legal instruction. Here are direct links to those tools.
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Computer-based, interactive content that cover many topics of law on a narrow scale to focus learning. Requires login using FIU Law Library authentication code. FIU Law students receive their code at orientation. For help, please Ask a Librarian.
Access restricted to FIU Law.
- CALI eBooks This link opens in a new windowThe eLangdell Bookstore provides free access to a selected list of law titles on different legal subjects, such as torts, contract law, judicial ethics and conduct, bankruptcy among other subject areas
- CALI Lessons This link opens in a new window
CALI includes hundreds of lessons in a number of fields of law that law students can use to improve their comprehension.
Access restricted to FIU Law.
- CALI ClasscasterClasscaster® is CALI's free blogging and podcasting network. It allows professors to create free class blogs, websites, and post educational materials. It also includes support for creating and posting recorded lectures.
- CALI InstaPollCALI InstaPoll is an open, online, virtual clicker that allows a teacher or speaker to quickly poll the class or audience.
- CALI LessonLinkCALI LessonLink is a feature of the CALI website that allows faculty members to assign CALI Lessons, QuizWright quizzes, and CALI Author self-published lessons to their students. When students work on one of these CALI resources via a LessonLink, the faculty can track student performance, view grades, and access detailed analytics.
- CALI QuizWrightQuizWright is a web app that lets teachers write individual MC, T/F, Y/N questions, saves the questions in a personal question bank, allows teachers to bundle the questions into quizzes, turns the quizzes into AutoPublish Lessons that are published to the CALI website and run by students either as LessonLive or LessonLink assessments.
QuizWright
A shortened version of the step-by-step outline provided in the "How do I use QuizWright" link below was posted with illustrations in CALI's roll-out Spotlight Blog under the title "Zero to Quiz in 5 Minutes: Getting Started With CALI QuizWright in 5 Quick Steps"
From the CALI site:
CALI QuizWright is a tool for creating and publishing formative assessments for your class. QuizWright gives law faculty a web-based platform to create and manage personal question banks and quizzes for their students. Using CALI's AutoPublish, LessonLive, and LessonLink features, QuizWright quizzes can be delivered to students and taken in real time in the classroom or assigned as homework using the familiar CALI Lesson Viewer.
The FAQs below should answer most of your questions about QuizWright. If not, email Elmer at emasters+qw@cali.org
Use QuizWright at https://www.cali.org/quizwright