Ideas please?

[wesleyw]

Currently we are following these guidelines for our coursework:

 

• Work produced over several sessions must be collected at the end of each session and stored securely
  
• Work produced electronically must be saved securely so it cannot be amended between sessions (or memory sticks collected)
  

 

However our solution isn't particularly elegant I would like to ask what have you done in a similar vein?

 

Preferably someway that doesn't allow them to bend the rules easily as theoretically our way if they where devious enough they might be able to?

 

 

Wes

[sted]

Give em a new user account thats only avaliable between the hours of x and x

[GrumbleDook]

Ah, you are talking about the famed Controlled Assessment.

 

There are a couple of threads on here about controlled assessment ranging from http://www.edugeek.net/forums/blue-skies/71548-head-ofqaul-asks-why-arent-students-using-computers-exams.html to http://www.edugeek.net/forums/general-chat/45189-going-meet-man-your-behalf.html ... but the latter of these threads also has a link to an excellent article Using Windows 7 and UMRA for Controlled Assessment » SharePointEduTech

 

It is also worth identifying with the exam board what they can and can't have access to whilst working electronically ... can they have a dictionary? Thesaurus? Spell Check? Internet access? it will vary from board to board, subject to subject and even unit to unit.

[wesleyw]

Has anyone setup something using their VLE to achieve this at all?

 

Still looking into sorting this out in a more appropriate way and this might be the best solution.

 

Wes

[Achandler]

Our ICT lessons are "Controlled" to an extent, the pupils login and get a different drive to their normal home drive during ther ICT periods. Meaning they can only access the work when they are meant to/ allowed to.

 

This is achieved using a GPO that affects members of certains groups, this GPO has a variety of settings in and a script that runs and originated from someone elses post here. The students (in preset class groups) are then added and removed from the corresponding groups via a scheduled task at the correct times.

 

Its like a controlled assessment but the light version.

[sonofsanta]

I've cobbled together an Excel spreadsheet to generate a new usernames for each student for each subject as a CSV and import that into AD. We just enable/disable the accounts around the required lessons, or delegate rights to the teacher to do the same, then give the teacher a shortcut into the folder so they can print out the work at their convenience. Works for us.

 

Although the easiest answer, annoyingly, is "give them a sheet of paper and a biro and collect at the end of each lesson." No danger of spell checkers and online resources then...

[reggiep]

Would there be a way to give a teacher the power to password protect a folder in a shared area with some software?

 

I did look at Grumbledook's links above, thanks grumbledook, but the last suggestion "Using Windows 7 and UMRA for Controlled Assessment » SharePointEduTech" would cost our school, with 780 students, £3000 for the software!