Staff mapping pupils folders

[mm3]

Our ICT teaching staff would like to be able to mark pupils work that is saved in there home dir.

 

our users are created using the pupils admissions numbers.

 

as a tech I would give teaching staff read access to a share so they can access the users folders.

 

\\SERVER\instake2014$\ they can now see the list of all the 2014 students

 

The staff are now moaning they have to go into Sims to get the users admissions number to see who's folder belong to each students.

 

in the past the old tech would create shortcuts to each share renaming the shortcut to the users name.

 

can anyone give me some advise on how you would solve this?

[bwestlake]

setup a report that they can run so it has the students name, year and admission number for there class?

[Joanne]

Yeah, I'd give them a printout of the report too.

[mm3]

yeah I have done that but still not good enough haha

[Joanne]

Save the reports as pdf documents and put them in a staff shared area?

[smithson83]

If you wanted to create the shortcuts, but wanted to do it quickly

 

This Website has a method (second one down). using a program called Shortcut.exe, using host code, you could pip dir of the homedrive to a text file, import into excel, the use concatenate to build up the lines of code then just paste it into cmd, jobs a good un

 

Shortcut can be found here

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in excel, use something like this

=CONCATENATE("shortcut.exe /a:c /f:''\\Server\Share\shortcuts\", A1, ".lnk'' /t:''\\Server\Share\", A1)

Edited October 23, 2014 by smithson83

[mm3]

If you wanted to create the shortcuts, but wanted to do it quickly

 

This Website has a method (second one down). using a program called Shortcut.exe, using host code, you could pip dir of the homedrive to a text file, import into excel, the use concatenate to build up the lines of code then just paste it into cmd, jobs a good un

 

Shortcut can be found here

Optimum X Downloads - Freeware Utilities

 

 

cheers mate going to give this a go

[JRowley]

Do you have any programming experience? It's relatively simple to create a program that queries LDAP for first name and surname and then open the associated home drive.

[vladker]

I would be very wary about providing staff with access to pupil documents. There are potential CP and ass coverage issues (something we should be vigilant of too). I will also add that a member of our staff was sacked and banned from teaching for altering and falsifying work.

 

Coming from this at a different angle, why not create a central location for pupils to submit work ? We have a 'hand in' folder. the permissions are configured as such that pupils can place a document in, but not view or edit any other documents. Staff can edit (inline comments in word say), but then as the pupil has submitted, you can cross reference against the original.

 

Our staff love the hand in folder. Most have ditched our VLE in favour of it as it is simpler and quicker. Not fun on a permissions standpoint, but once done...

[Duke5A]

We did something similar that I documented in a blog post found here: VB script for creating student drop boxes - Blogs - EduGeek.net There is even a script that automates the folder creation and permissions.

[PyROm]

We allow staff readonly access to student home drives, they have a paper and excel copy of the student login numbers, never had a complaint.

[jimmy_2k]

I removed permissions for staff to look at student home drives as I decided that staff did not need or want to see the students areas. Only ICT support staff could look though folders for investigative purposes. We used Google Docs for this type of assessment. The teacher shared a template in Google drive with the student and revoked the share when they were finished. For controlled assessments the teachers had access to view these files and folders via a shortcut in the staff drive.