mjgreen

Just spoke to the Exam board and the solution is....... The candidate hand writes the name/candidate information etc on each sheet as they collect them from the printer! They were a bit cagey about it though and did not really want to specify a 'standard' way to do it,which I think is ridiculous!!

LOL! Yes i was going to contact the Exam board but my colleague is in a meeting at the moment so I cant be noisy on the phone. I will see what they say though as I agree, they should have reccomendations. Thanks for the heads up about GPO, that would be my prefered method. Will have a dig for that thread.

Thank you, but we dont have any spare laptops so our users need to use an exisiting 'regular' networked pc

Thank you, I will look at that as an option Do you know if it works with Office 2010 as well (if I update the file locations obviosuly)

But does Wordpad seperate pages? Isnt it just one long document as far as the user can tell?

That would be fantastic, thank you. The more research I do here seems to suggest that currently our candidates print the document immediatly at the end of the lesson. If I try and get them to change this process I know that it wont be accepted easily!

thank you So is the way you actually do it in your school? Or are you speaking hypothetically?

Its true Steve, maybe I will discuss that with the appropriate people. Out of interest, did you find a link to that? Wouldnt mind a copy thanks

The board is JCQ. I have a hard copy of the document but unfortunatly cannot find the exact PDF on the JCQ website to post a link. It might be possible for the exams officer to transfer the written text after the exams, you are right. It just concerns me that the way that the document is written defintely suggests that this process should be done by the candidate and that they should use the word processor "where it is thier normal way of working within the centre"

Hi MartinT, did you get manage to achieve this? We need to do the same

Hi all, (Windows 7, Office 2007 soon to be Office 2010) For a while now we have had an 'Examination' user which has been used for Exams when a pupil requires a Word Processor for an exam. This user ONLY has access to Wordpad and cannot access any other programs or the internet etc. This arrangement has been fine for a couple of years, but one of our learning support officers has now told us that the specifications from the exam board state that: * The candidate MUST be able to ensure that thier Name, centre number, candidate number and paper details appear on each page page as a header/footer. * The candidate MUST NOT have access to a spell check tool Our previous arrangment with Wordpad was fine as it did not have a spell checker, but as far as I can tell you cannot enter a header/footer in Wordpad. How do other schools achieve this? Do you use Word and disable Spell Check via GPO? Many thanks

hmmm strange, well I decided to try Firefox portable instead. That seemed to work nicely! Will just go with that instead I think

Hi all, One of our teachers has a consistant weird problem while trying to access a particular website which contains teaching materials. We use IE has standard and have to stick with version 8 as it is the only thing that works properly with our intranet (dont ask!). I had the idea of offering a second browser just to this one user, then I found Google Chrome portable. Quite rightly we disable running .exe's from memory sticks so I thought that I could put it in a shared location and the user could run it from there. I have tried this and although the software seems to launch without problem it then seems to hang. I have also tried installing it to USB and sharing that, but the same thing happened. Has anyone had any luck running Google Chrome Portable across a network in this manner?

I can try and work out how do it that, but normally when there are authentication errors/messages, this comes up in the log. Nothing comes up for these two sites at all

it links with Active Directory