Dear Administrator,

We’re very excited with the response we’ve received from Mac users at your school and we’d like to request your assistance in announcing to your graduating students that the State Bar exam will be allowing the use of SofTest Mac as well! No longer will Mac-owning students be required to use Boot Camp and install Windows just to take their Bar exam!

We have already received a number of calls and emails from students who are concerned about whether they can use their Macs for the bar exam, so we are asking for your help in spreading the word to your Mac users.  Like you, we want them to have the most current and accurate information.  We know many of your graduating students have grown accustomed to using our Mac solution and it would be a relief to them to know they can continue using SofTest Mac in July.

As always, we thank you for all that you do and we are always here for anything that you may need. We hope that we can begin to develop a closer partnership with you and your graduating classes to help prepare them for the most important exam of their future careers.

ExamSoft is soliciting feedback and questions from students and IT administrators, so feel free contact them at mac@examsoft.com.

After months of intense development and extensive testing, we are proud to announce the availability of SofTest Mac on September 1st. SofTest Mac and SofTest Windows both have the same features, security levels, and a similar user experience. Additionally, your exam management/creation process won’t change. Your exams created after 9/1 will be compatible with both versions of SofTest, which means there is no need for duplicated efforts and you will be able to track student activity from a single interface. Please keep in mind that 9/1 is the date when we release new versions for all our products, so you will be prompted to upgrade all your ExamSoft applications. Finally, we understand this release may affect your exam administration planning and process. Please contact your Account Manager if you have any questions or are in need of help.

For the Fall 2010 release, SofTest Mac will be optional for every client. You can decide whether you want your students to have access to SofTest Mac. We believe SofTest Mac will be a wonderful alternative for students, but if you choose not to utilize SofTest Mac, your students will still be able to run SofTest on their Mac laptops via BootCamp.

By default, your account is set to NOT have access to SofTest Mac. If you wish to allow students to use SofTest Mac, please let us know by August 27, so that we can modify your account accordingly.

The System Requirements for SofTest Mac are:

” A Mac computer with an Intel processor
” OSX version 10.5.8 or higher (Leopard, Snow Leopard)
” 50MB or more free disk space (100MB recommended)
” 512MB or higher memory (1GB recommended)
” Internet connection for downloading / uploading exams

If you have any questions, concerns or plan to allow your students to have access to SofTest Mac, please let us know. We would appreciate hearing from you either way.

Regards,

Maribel Olvera
Director of Operations
ExamSoft Worldwide, Inc.

The MLS Bar Exam Software page has info on the following states:

• Alabama
• Alaska
• Arizona
• California
• Colorado
• Georgia
• Kentucky
• Illinois
• Iowa
• Maryland
• Minnesota
• Nebraska
• New York
• Oregon
• Texas
• Utah
• Virginia

Most of the info for those states is at least a year old, so if you have more current info, please pass it my way so I can update the page. As always, thanks for your support.