Small Basic when executable files are blocked

[Jambo_C]

Hi,

 

I've got a member of staff wanting to use Small Basic with his class. It runs fine and if a student tries to run a script they've written it works fine up until when they save it. As soon as they save it to their network drive it ceases to run, it just crashes out with a "Small Basic has stopped running" error. I've figured out that this is due to the program attempting to run an executable file which students aren't allowed to do from their network drive due to a group policy software restriction policy that was put in place to stop them downloading and running various unsavoury and timewasting things. Has anyone else come across this and come up with any kind of solution/way round it? I don't really want to remove the policy.

 

Cheers.

[NB9457]

Assuming it's a High School you're talking about:

 

We installed VirtualBox on select machines for the new IT course requirements, you should be allowed to use VL to licence any OS or use XP mode which is free anyway, then we had a mapped drive set and network access restricted within VB and set VB to reset to a new image every restart. Thenwe filled it up with small basic, app maker and anything developing related, that way they can test, it's secure and if it breaks, restart!

[fiza]

I got my Virtualbox environment up and running with the info in this thread http://www.edugeek.net/forums/how-do-you-do/95325-virtualbox-image-programming-classes.html