Controlled coursework?

[joshcoombs]

Some of our subjects have started using the new controlled coursework sylabus.

This means that studends have a set period of time to complete a peice of coursework on computers.

The students are allowed to use the internet, and save their work, but they cannot access the work outside of lesson time.

We have a VLE with access to users work area from home.

Anyopne ever dealt with a controlled coursework problem before?

Any Thoghts?

Thanks

[jamesb]

Scheduled tasks to add and remove rights to the directory at appropriate times?

 

Edit: Alternatively, what about a logon script that allows access to the files only when they're logging in within the school?

[pete]

I'm currently thinking of a way to do this without creating a whole raft of exam accounts (which we normally use for day-long coursework exams). Does your syllabus say they're not allowed access to any research notes relating to the coursework outside of the lessons either?

 

So far - if the kid's using his own account (with a new "coursework" homedir assigned as a scheduled task that I manage to link on a per-set timetable basis), he can still copy to moodle / anywhere on the Internet that allows him to paste text and save it (i.e pastebin and others I'm unaware of).

 

If I use an exam account for those lessons, it's another password for him to forget after a day and I still have to do the scheduled task thing to enable the account for those lessons. And he can still paste to moodle/anywhere on the Internet that allows him to paste text and save it.

 

The restrictions deemed necessary by our syllabus are a joke, since they're so easy to circumvent. Once they have Internet access for the exam sessions, it's trivial to hide or upload info somewhere on the Internet.

[jcollings]

We setup some special exam user accounts once whihc the teacher issued to the students. These were then enabled/disabled as needed.

[Oops_my_bad]

This year we had this crop up for the first time - in the end we just set the logon hours for the user accounts in AD to only allow login between 9AM and 3PM monday-friday during the art exam fortnight. Whether they were logging in during the day between their exam is another issue!

[Finch7]

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/how-do-you-do/46115-controlled-assesment.html#post422742

 

That's how we are doing it.