Laptop set-up for Controlled Assessments

[dhe2010]

I need to set up 25 laptops as stand-alone (no Internet/network connectivity) for up-coming controlled assessments using primarily Word. At the moment we are setting up a generic log-in for each laptop and the students will save their work to a memory stick which is taken away by the teacher. This will involve a lot of hassle for the teacher continually giving out and collecting in memory sticks, especially as teachers are also saying that they want to back-up the memory sticks. Can anyone recommend a better way to do this?

 

thanks

[jamesreedersmith]

What about a server in a domain of its own with a swith to connect it to the laptops and no internet connection but can be centrally controlled (logons/restrictions etc) and can also be a shared drive to e tc.machine for a central store for easy backup etc.

[mavhc]

I'm planning to have X controlled assessment accounts, set up with only access to their own home drive. Only teachers should know the passwords and log them in and out. Can use logon/off auditing for time stamps, or impero logs. If you want you can alter the user log in allowed hours.

[kennysarmy]

for one offs we have a generic account and they save to memory sticks.

 

for continuation work we set up separate E accounts which get enabled and disabled as and when.

 

Seems to work....

[Asgard]

We don't do standalone, we have exam accounts in AD based on the candidate number .

 

We have a mandatory profile that the accounts are associated to - which has Office 2010 spellcheck disabled

 

Then to further add to this we disable (via hash rules). All internet browsers, calculator, excel (to stop them using it as a calc) and back this up by adding the accounts to a "no internet" group on our Sophos UTM.

 

Happy to show you it in action... It's deceptively simple and is rock solid.

 

Works for all our exams, including the ones when students have elected to use a laptop in an exam as their normal way of working.

Edited February 4, 2015 by Asgard