RE: [MLUG] New viruses using encrypted zip

["Ross, Matthew" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> The major problem I have with electronic submition of 
> homework or tests 
> is that it often doesn't allow the student to keep a hardcopy 
> to check 
> for errors or keep for reference. Not long ago one of the schools 
> Jennifer goes to screwed her over because she has to take the 
> tests over 
> the Internet. I watched her click the right answer and click the save 
> button that is supposed to save what she had selected.. then when she 
> finished the test she submitted the entire test.. then it 
> came back and 
> said she missed that question but said she'd chosen a 
> different answer. 
> There was no way to have checked to make sure the program had 
> recorded 
> the right data and no way to prove what she'd chosen so she was stuck 
> with the less than perfect score. Stuff like that happens a lot.

That is an example of poor system planning. A proper system should have displayed in printable format her answers with a "confirm" button at the bottom. Everything else of any importance does this. 

For longer text, such as an essay or code, I told my students to keep a text copy for themselves, under the threat that my system would randomly select papers to "lose" throughout the course of the semmester, and I would then ask for their backup. Just a joke about how any system will sometimes fail, but those who got the joke were smart enough to already be backing up, and those who didn't get the joke backed up their work for fear that I wasn't joking. The only completely lost assignments in my class were on the students disks and hadn't been submitted yet.

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