After serious trauma trying to run ExamView on Lion OSX as I blogged about here and here, it is finally fixed! I received an email from eInstruction on Friday stating that “ExamView Assessment Suite v.7.5.1 COMPATIBLE with Mac 10.7″. Included was a link for a FREE copy of the new ExamView that promised to expire in 10 days. Of course, I get this email on the way to the BEACH, while I was in the car with no wi-fi to be found anywhere. Since them I have been too busy hustling around to soccer games and having fun at the beach. But, I was finally able to steal a bit of time tonight to install the program and see if it worked. I could just no longer stand it! And guess what?? It works! It works! It works!
If you want to try it out on your Lion OSX Mac then here is the link – but it expires in ten days (ack – 8 days)!
https://einstruction.sharefile.com/d/s64687cba8a441c6a
(If you have any questions, please contact eInstruction technical support at 888-333-4988).
Good luck! : )
I have also installed the update and am happy to have it working again. Unfortunately, I can not install new test generators I ordered over the summer. Truthfully, I only need to get at the test banks but can not find those either.
You shouldn’t need to install the Test Generators that you ordered over the summer to get the banks on your computer. Just open the files and copy/paste the banks to get them onto your computer. Then, when you run the new ExamView, you just have to go and find the banks. I have my banks on DropBox so that I can access them from any computer I have ExamView installed on.
Thanks a lot for the link. Now that there’s finally a new version, I can start using ExamView on my Mac again!
Thanks kindly for following up on your original blog post! You were a much more useful source of information about both the dropping of support for PowerPC apps in Lion and the fact that ExamView was still a PowerPC app than either Apple or eInstruction. I’m also a math teacher (high school) with an interest in integrating technology — as well as a Mac user — so I’ll be following you blog. Best of luck!
Sounds like some awesome software! Thanks for sharing, and keep us posted on how useful it is.
BigBrainz
Math Games
My question is simply: What happens after 10 days if a user downloads the trial? Won’t Lion users be stuck at that point? This is the one program that is getting in the way of upgrading my wife’s computer to Lion!
Thanks to all for the info already up here.
@Jeff – the link is not a 10 day trial of the software. I was told that the LINK to download the software would expire in 10 days. I am not sure if the link is a full version of the software or just the “fix” (where you have to have a version of ExamView installed for the fix to be able to run on your computer). And, even though the link was supposed to expire in 10 days, it has not. I downloaded it on my older mac last week! : )
That’s great! I’ve downloaded it, just a couple of questions still:
1) Can I install this in Snow Leopard first, or should I wait until I’m in Lion?
2) Will her old data “just be there,” or will I need to do anything to insure a smooth transition for her? (The more transparent I make the experience for her, the better for me!)
Again, a huge thank you to all. The info here has already proven quite valuable!!!
-Jeff
Hey Jeff – All she needs to do is back up her ExamView data. I only used the Examview Banks and Examview tests. Make a copy of those two folders (you can use a USB drive or upload them to a site like dropbox if you use that). Then, after you install the new program, you can copy those folders back onto her computer. You may not even need to do that, but just in case the upgrade to Lion does not go well it is nice to have. She will be devastated if she loses all of the tests she has created! I would upgrade the Examview first to make sure the link still works and then upgrade to Lion. If the link works and the Lion upgrade messes it up, you can always download it again and re-install. I hope it works out for you!
Link still seems to work after 3 weeks.
Looks good so far! I haven’t upgraded to her to Lion, but now that it’s on her computer, I see how it will work.
Another question—does anyone know if there’s a similar fix for the TeacherWorks software from Glencoe?
Thanks a million for the help already offered!!
The link to download the version that works with Lion is no longer active. Can someone please email the program? I’d be forever grateful. Thanks! acole82@comcast.net
I emailed them for another link so hopefully they will provide one.
Thanks.
I did a search and found this.
https://einstruction.sharefile.com/d/s6e6f777cb8d4a37b
It works. Enjoy everyone.
Thanks so much Linda!
Thanks. When I emailed the company yesterday, they said the only way to get an updated version was to contact the textbook company where I originally got their program from.
Linda,
Can you tell me how/where you found this link?
Thanks
Lisa
I just did a search for Examview 5.1 and found it. I also emailed them and they sent me a download link as well. Finally, the publisher of the textbook I am using had a copy. It seems to be easily available now.
We’ve been having errors pop up when someone creates a test, saves it, and then tries to re-open it = “Unable to read. The test could not be read from the disk.”
Also out of memory errors, where the larger bank opens but not the smaller test?
You are lifesavers!! Just updated to Lion knowing that Microsoft Word would need to be updated too but didn’t even think about ExamView! Start of Thanksgiving break and of course I had planned to get a ton of work done so I was completely stressed until I found this page. THANK YOU a million times over!
A few bugs, we seem to have narrowed it down to images, some of our graphics are coming out oddly resized, and when we try to resize them the .tst or .bnk file becomes unreadable.
After version 7 I wished they added an option to stop converting graphics to .jpg and down sample them, and let us export images as they are esp. our .png images. Grrrrrrr. I miss the old folks at ExamView with their forum for bugs and feature requests.
Feature: add font control to the top layer controls, I use super and subscripts all the time, would be nice not to have click, click, click to get there.
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If none of the other links work for you I have a new link that einstruction just emailed me. It is specifically for the Lion “fix”. https://einstruction.sharefile.com/d/s21b3f314ea9498a9
Happy Test Generating!!
Can someone please explain to me why it was so hard to make an updated version available? If they have it, why not make it easy to find instead of hiding it. ugh.
Thanks to everyone that provided links. I’m ready for 2nd semester (sort of).
HI There.
Thank you for the info about Examview 7.5.1. I am getting an error message that says, “Invalid Question Bank Format” AND “This is not a valid question bank”.
This seems odd to me because the banks have the file extension “.bnk”
Any thoughts…