Somewhere to put classwork

[Seb1780]

I've just been party to a conversation about network storage of pupil classwork.

 

At the moment each child has a user area where they, and only they, can store classwork. Teachers can access this using NetFlow. If a teacher sets some classwork and asks the pupils to save the work for later marking then the teachers have to spend the time trawling through each pupil's storage area to find said work.

 

It has been suggested that a new network drive be created and all pupils be given RW access to this. The teacher can then say "save your files to X:\myclass" and then all the work will be in one place. This, however, has implications as the little darlings* cannot be trusted to behave and we envisage deletions, changes and all sorts of malarky.

 

How do you manage this sort of thing?

 

 

*pupils not teachers

[maark]

google classroom

[Davit2005]

I did at my last place set up a media drive that only the student themselves could dump their work into their own folders and other students could read only but this was set up so students could collectively share media files etc. This was done as a GPP creting the folder automatically when the student logged in

 

In your case you prob would not want to have students looking at other students work. It might be possible to do the same sort of thing automatically. The last thing you want is this to be a manual job (prob you doing it) when a student starts school.

Edited February 2, 2016 by Davit2005

[jmak]

Google Classroom is made for this. Other alternatives; give them home drives and then give teachers R/W permission, or M$ answer is Onenote Class Notebook. You'll need individual user accounts for any option which gives control over what each student can access/destroy. Our pupils manage to delete and hide work all the time - and that's just by accident...

[smithson83]

I have a mapped drive (dubbed Pupil DropDrive) setup up for pupils whereby they can copy file to it, and that's it, once its there, they cannot re-access it, nor can they delete it, nor read others work. Pupils have; "List Folder / Read Data", "read Attributes", and ""Read Extended Attributes".

 

This way they complete and save their work in their own areas, then copy the end result to a folder on the Pupil DropDrive that the teacher has created.

Edited February 2, 2016 by smithson83

[StevieM]

We have shared folders for each class where children can save their work so that it is easily accessible by the teacher. It took me a while, but I've configured permissions so that while pupils are able to open a read only copy of any file, they can only modify and delete files that they have created.

[Brimstone]

google classroom

 

What he said.....

[fiza]

I have a mapped drive (dubbed Pupil DropDrive) setup up for pupils whereby they can copy file to it, and that's it, once its there, they cannot re-access it, nor can they delete it, nor read others work. Pupils have; "List Folder / Read Data", "read Attributes", and ""Read Extended Attributes".

 

This way they complete and save their work in their own areas, then copy the end result to a folder on the Pupil DropDrive that the teacher has created.

 

What happens if they all name their document "doc1"? How does the teacher know which work belongs to which student?

 

btw we use Google Classroom

[smithson83]

@fiza, That's a teaching issue, pupils should always name files properly.

Wherever the files are, or how ever they are collected, if its simply named Doc1, how would the teacher know that is the file needed for marking or who it was from...

 

I don't get why people jump to using a.n.other service when it can be done simply in house with existing workflow that doesn't require much if any extra training. Add a folder to your file server, set the permissions, map a drive, tell em they can only copy and paste once saved, then its up to the teacher/pupils to use it.

Edited February 2, 2016 by smithson83

[Joanne]

We just have Pupil Shared here. Never had an issue with deleted files. I'm in a primary mind.

[Seb1780]

Thank you all - I'll pass your comments on (for I am an 'umble Data Manager and not allowed near "proper" stuff).

[fiza]

@fiza, That's a teaching issue, pupils should always name files properly.

Wherever the files are, or how ever they are collected, if its simply named Doc1, how would the teacher know that is the file needed for marking or who it was from...

 

I don't get why people jump to using a.n.other service when it can be done simply in house with existing workflow that doesn't require much if any extra training. Add a folder to your file server, set the permissions, map a drive, tell em they can only copy and paste once saved, then its up to the teacher/pupils to use it.

 

I think we have spoilt our students. Prior to using Google classroom we used Ranger Outpost where the students login and drop work into a folder marked with the teachers name. As the student drops the file in their username is appended to it automatically. Now that we use Classroom its all allocated to their google username and they upload it to the teacher as part of classroom assignment task.