Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Re: Drop folders on a Windows network

What you describe can be done with Windows file permissions, so I'm not sur=
e why your consultants told you that it can't be done.

That being said, many of our teachers use Moodle to collect assignments ele=
ctronically from kids, while others have the students email them.

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Steven Dickenson <sdickenson@keyschool.org>
Computer Network Manager
The Key School, Annapolis Maryland


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> Subject: Drop folders on a Windows network
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> We've had a Novell network for longer than I've been at my school. Since=
I
> started, we've been giving teachers folders on the network in which they =
have
> Copy, Drop, Shared, and Portfolio folders for their students. Teachers=
have
> full read/write access to all of these. Students have read-only access to
> Copy, write-only to drop, read/write to Shared, and read/write to their
> individual Portfolio folders. This part of our Novell network has served=
us
> well. Unfortunately, the rest hasn't been what our needs require, so we'=
re
> moving to a Windows server environment. With this move, we'll also lose
> access to the "Drop" folder. It's been incredibly convenient for our fac=
ulty
> to be able to pull a single folder to a desktop for correcting. We've be=
en
> told by our consultants that students can submit work via Portfolio folde=
rs
> (teachers would have to "collect" work from each folder separately) or vi=
a
> Shared folders (risking student deletion or copying).
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> Long path to short question - What's your preferred method of collecting =
work
> electronically?
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> I've created or short poll at: http://poll.fm/y9jq
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> I'm happy to share results. I'm hoping to find a more convenient solutio=
n in
> time to have it in place by August.
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> Thanks!
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> Tami Brass
> Middle School Technology Coordinator
> St. Paul Academy and Summit School
> 1712 Randolph Ave.
> St Paul, MN 55102
> http://www.spa.edu<http://www.spa.edu/>
> (651) 696-1444
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