Law ITS: For New Law Students
Here's a quick guide to the questions asked by newly admitted OU Law Students, whether they be First Year (1Ls), Transfer, or LLM students. You should also read the Computer Recommendations; it contains more detailed information about many of these questions.
IT resources for OU Law Students
Some of these resources (like the Computer Labs) will be unavailable to you until you arrive at the College of Law, and most will be unavailable until you've completed the online Computer Lab Orientation.
Online Computer Lab Orientation
For EAPs, new 1Ls, and Transfer students, you'll be e-mailed a link to activate your OU Law account after your admissions deposit is received; as a part of the account activation process you'll be forwarded to the online Orientation. For visiting law students and LLM students, your username and password will be provided during the Orientation for Visiting and LLM students, which happens the week before Fall classes start. (For visitors who join the College in the Spring or Summer semesters, you will need to contact OU Law ITS to make arrangements for your Lab Orientation.)
In addition to background technology-related tasks, Law Center ITS administers the following programs of interest to OU Law Students.
- Computer Recommendations
In addition to guidelines to assist you in determining what sort of computer you should purchase (or if you should purchase one), our Computing Recommendations includes information about the IT-related services available at OU, such as detailed information about setting up your OU e-mail.
Click Here to go to the Computer Recommendations page. - OU E-mail
This service is actually provided by the University's IT department, not by the Law Center, but we do provide some information to help you get started with it.
Click Here for more information about OU E-mail. - First Week Assignments and the Books & Supplements List
In law school, your professors will expect you to arrive at the first class session having already read some of the class materials. These reading assignments, along with other First Week Assignments, are posted on the Web a few weeks before the start of each semester.- If you've already activated your OU Law account, you can click here to see your personalized First Week Assignments integrated into the Books & Supplements List (opens in a new window, OU Law username and password required).
- If you haven't activated (or do not have) an OU Law account, you can click here to see the public First Week Assignments list or click here to see the public Books & Supplements list.
- Exams on Laptops Program
Most students are allowed to take at least some of their final exams on their laptops via the College of Law's Exams on Laptops Program. Participation in the Program is Faculty-dependent; although some Professors do not allow their exams to be taken on laptops, the vast majority of exams are eligible to be taken under the Exams on Laptops Program.
Click Here for more information on the Exams on Laptops Program. - Law Student Network
OU Law Students have access to the Internet via a wireless network that provides nearly complete wireless coverage of the building, including all classrooms and most areas frequented by students.
Click Here for more information on the Law Student Network. - Computer Labs
If you don't own a laptop, you still have computer access at the College of Law through one of three Computer Labs maintained by Law ITS for the exclusive use of Law Students.
Click Here for more information on the Law Student Computer Labs. - Law Student Intranet and Forums
To better facilitate communications with and between OU Law Students, Law ITS maintains the Law Student Intranet and Forums. These password-protected resources are available to all currently-enrolled OU Law Students who have completed the mandatory OU Law Online Computer Lab Orientation.
Click Here for more information on the Law Student Intranet and Forums. - Classroom Technology
The College of Law has made a substantial investment in classroom technologies, including projection systems for in-class presentations and distance learning (videoconferencing) systems. We have classes which use the videoconferencing facilities as an integral part of the classroom experience, including a course that has the professor and students from the College of Law in a team-teaching environment with professors and students from law schools in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Click Here for more information on Classroom Technology.
For more information on Law Center Information Technology Services, check out the links in the menu to the left side of this page.