Blue books?

[mu_hilltopper]

When I went to MU a few decades ago .. many tests were taken on "blue books" .. simple composition notebooks full of blank paper.  (The cover page was blue.)

Professor would give out the questions on a separate sheet, and you'd hand-write your answers in the blue book.

Question:  With everyone having a laptop these days .. do teachers use blue books for tests these days, or do people type them out?

(Ulterior motive:  My teen son's handwriting is atrocious, painful, and slow.   I wonder if it matters anymore.)

[swoopem]

When I graduated in 2010 everyone had laptops and we were still using blue books for test

[MUBurrow]

When I graduated in 2010 everyone had laptops and we were still using blue books for test

This is what I remember too (roughly the same timeframe). Then in grad school most of my tests were "electronic blue book" which just meant typed and submitted.  IIRC, the program prevented you from navigating off the screen or running other programs to prevent cheating.

If your son is a teenager now, I suppose there is a small chance he gets got with one or two handwritten exams, but I have to think it will be entirely typed by the time he's at MU if it isn't already.

[The Sultan]

I remember filling up almost two of them for Dr. Wolfe's Constitutional Law final...

[jficke13]

In law school from 09-12, you could run some kind of weird anti-cheating software and type your exam answers on your laptop, or you could use a bluebook. I wanted no part of their nonsense software or the stress associated with its potential failure, so I was one of a very small minority who chose the bluebook.

Granted, that was a decade ago, so who knows now.

[tower912]

I remember filling up almost two of them for Dr. Wolfe's Constitutional Law final...

Loved that class.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Project Blue Book was a good TV Show.  Very X-Files like.  I wonder when Season 3 is dropping?

[tower912]

I thought it was going to be about porn.

[#UnleashSean]

In law school from 09-12, you could run some kind of weird anti-cheating software and type your exam answers on your laptop, or you could use a bluebook. I wanted no part of their nonsense software or the stress associated with its potential failure, so I was one of a very small minority who chose the bluebook.

Granted, that was a decade ago, so who knows now.

I loved those "anti cheating softwares" when I was in school.

All you had to do was run it in a virtual windows and you were free to do whatever you wanted.

Though with the computer illiterate teenagers now, that software is probably great.

[Galway Eagle]

In grad school we still used them for exams.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

I thought it was going to be about porn.

That's blue balls.

[drewm88]

They're still around in some spots. I believe cheating is one of the big concerns that leads to their continued use, despite supposed barriers to it.

[4everwarriors]

Blew books at da bookstore were 5 cents back in da dey, hey?

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

When I graduated in 2010 everyone had laptops and we were still using blue books for test

Same for 2011.

[Herman Cain]

That's blue balls.

I am curious Blue was a big Swedish film in the 60s it explored many erotic subjects

[rocket surgeon]

That's blue balls.

  pity the dude who was left with blue balls from his lap top though...what?  losing the internet connection or battery power i guess, but that's what they tell me