If you bought a new copy of Business Law: The Ethical, Global, and E-Commerce Environment, then you will have received in your book a free copy of the You be the Judge DVD-ROM.
This two-disc DVD may be used by your professor as an in-class discussion tool or as an out-of-class assignment. This is an interactive DVD-ROM that is meant to be played in the DVD drive of your computer. If you play this on a DVD player, you will only have access to the video portion of the DVD, not the interactive exercise.
There are 10 cases on the first disc:
Interviews with the plaintiff and the defendant prior to the court hearing. Each segment contains videos of both the plaintiff and defendant discussing the issues of the case.
Background information of the case. "Issues to Consider" are included for each case, which are questions to keep in mind as you watch the next segment, the argument. The Background also contains three to four (actual, relevant) cases listed at the left. Click on a case, and a case brief appears at the right, allowing the students to see case precedents that apply to the case.
The argument; reactions of each plaintiff and defendant. Each segment/case contained the video of the unscripted courtroom proceedings, and is about 6-8 minutes in length. An actual judge is presiding over each case and is reacting unscripted.
Evidence. This section contains documents/video/audio that are relevant to the case.
Verdict generator. This is the heart of the DVD. You will answer a series of "yes" or "no" questions and your verdict is automatically generated based on your responses. Once a question is answered, a rationale appears to the right of the question. Your verdict can be either printed out or e-mailed to the instructor to be used as a graded assignment or as a basis for classroom discussion.
Judge's verdict. Students will see a video of the judge's ruling. The judge has acted on her own in determining her verdict. You cannot view this potion until you have completed a verdict in the previous step.
Student responses. You may then disagree with the judge or change your verdict and reasoning for doing so. This may also be e-mailed to the instructor or printed out for a grade or classroom discussion. Their original verdict will appear to the right of the screen in this segment for reference.
Instructors: You can access teaching notes to the DVD in either the Instructor's Manual (on the Instructor's CD-Rom), or under the Instructor Center of the text web site.
The DVD should auto-start... if it doesn't, try the following:
Close down any open DVD windows.
Double-click on "My Computer"
Right click (once) your D drive (or whatever drive your DVD is in)
Choose open
Choose the "start.exe" file
If you continue to experience problems, please refer to the quick troubleshooting guide printed on the DVD packaging or contact the McGraw-Hill Help Desk (click the Help link on the OLC Web page).
Instructors and Students:
We have also included on this text web site many of the DVD assets -- in case you do not have access to a DVD-ROM in your classroom or outside of class. You can find in this section the evidence images, the case briefs, issues to consider, and the verdict generator questions. Just click on each segment in the listing above to retrieve these materials. Instructors can also receive a VHS copy of the video segments from the DVD to show in class if you do not have access to a DVD-ROM in your classroom.
