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I have a teacher asking me how he can get students to upload homework on our network.
We have a generic student network folder with teachers names in it. He has a folder where he can put his assignments with "read only" permission. Students can open it and save it into their respective network folders.
He now wants to do it in reverse. He wants to create a new folder where students can save their work but not look at other peoples work.
I suggested we create folders for each student and they would only have access to their folder (much like how our network is set up now for the school), but he doesn't want to folder hop.
He wants them to be able to drop in their homework into the same folder but not read other peoples homework in the folder.
Is their a way to set that up with permissions? Is there an upload type program we can install on each computer that will do that? He doesn't need the students to access their own homework once turned in.
I am not sure if what he wants is possible.
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I should add the the classroom computers are running XP-Pro with all updates.
quote:If he can't be bothered to folder hop, you shouldn't have to be bothered to do your homework.
A big point of computers is to make it as easy as possible. I am not sure if I can do it via permissions, but has anyone heard of a program I can install on the client machines that gives the students the option to drop homework into the program that forwards it to the appropriate folder?
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quote:I suggested we create folders for each student and they would only have access to their folder (much like how our network is set up now for the school), but he doesn't want to folder hop.
You could put all the student folders into one main folder and then have the teacher do a file search for anything in the main folder, and then save the search onto his Desktop or in some convenient place. Then whenever he wants to pull up everything in the student folders, he would only have to run the saved search, and the files from all the students will be displayed in one window.
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You should be able to create a drop folder with only write permissions. I've been away from the windows side of things for a while, so I can't point you to the specifics, but you definitely should be able to change the permissions to write-only. Owner should be able to read, write, and execute. Group members should be able to write.
Someone more windows-oriented can probably walk you through the process.
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quote: You should be able to create a drop folder with only write permissions. I've been away from the windows side of things for a while, so I can't point you to the specifics, but you definitely should be able to change the permissions to write-only. Owner should be able to read, write, and execute. Group members should be able to write.
Doh, I feel stupid now. I just created a folder with "write" and "List Folder Contents." That is exactly what I am looking for.
However, now when I try to get a student to save in it, it says there is not enough memory. It then saves my test word document with 0kb of data (blank) and a generic hidden temp folder next to it with 24kb of data.
I need to look up that error message. I will let you know how it works out.
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I know this works with FTP permissions. Write, but no read permissions. I also can do it on the UNIX side. I, like you, would have to just play with the folder NTFS permissions to get it right on windows.
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quote:Originally posted by Zevlag: I know this works with FTP permissions. Write, but no read permissions. I also can do it on the UNIX side. I, like you, would have to just play with the folder NTFS permissions to get it right on windows.
Presumably "CHMOD 720" would set the right permissions for this configuration. Owner rwx + group w.
Within Windows, though, your guess is as good as mine. Best of luck, again.
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Note that you will have some issues if the students attempt to copy files with the same name(s) into that folder. Since they don't have read permissions, they won't be able to see the other files that are causing the problem. It's not a major issue -- they'll just have to remember to rename the file when they get that error -- but that error WILL occur.
BTW, I still recommend that you look into SharePoint. *grin* Educational licensing is dirt cheap, and it's slowly becoming feature-competitive to Blackboard.
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