Laptops for exams

[mike86]

At the moment we have a set of laptops setup with a local account that is heavily locked down, with access to a word template with the proofing tools removed. However I've been asked to investigate if using one of our IT suites/bank of laptops with a locked down user account would be a viable option as we are expecting a lot more students to use laptops for exams this year.

 

Any ideas for the best way to go about this, Is setting up an Exams user and locked down GPO the way to go?

 

Cheers

[DalekSec]

We create an extremely locked down account (new account for every entry) in group policy and we used laptops (so we connected to network first and then unplugged and disabled wireless in BIOS). Same should work for desktops but guessing take out the network cables after they are logged in? We also get them to save to USBs

[Sagima]

We use group policy to lock ours down - I think we have two (one with spell check allowed).

One of our technicians worked with our exams office and the boards to make sure everyone was happy with that.

We do have half a dozen laptops using that policy but we can use a suite if we ever got more than that needing a computer at once - it hasn't happened yet

[rad]

We use an ICT suite with an account locked down to only allow certain things. We load up their file using Wordpad. The June GCSE's we had 14 students in one room, using every other PC.

[DarrenM]

Group policy here too. Add the pupil to the exam group and next logon they get a pop up telling them they are in exam mode, they only have access to wordpad and cant access usb drives and have there documents redirected to an exam area which sets up a new folder for them to save to.

 

Scheduled task kicks them out of the group at the end of each lesson.