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prevent change in author
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i'm teaching my class excel and the students have to save their homework files to a network folder designated for them. i recently caught students taking copies of their homework files and transfering them via thumb drives to other students folders. the only reason i knew they did this was because i looked at the author property in file-properties and saw that the original author was not the user in whose folder it was in. i have a feeling as soon as i confront the students about cheating they will be looking for how i found out and a way around this. you can easily change the author on a file and i was wondering if anyone knew of a way to prevent this. is there a registry entry that can be edited so that the author box is filled in automatically with the original user but can't be edited? any help would be very appreciated. |
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is there a registry entry that can be edited so that
So you'd add this registry entry to their home PCs how?<g No, no such entry in any case. I'm afraid that file properties are readily editable. It's probably impossible to know for certain who first saved a file. If you gave each student a file to start with, and each was subtlety different that might be a trace. But that's a lot of trouble, not failsafe and doesn't prevent students from 'sharing' the work that goes into completing the spreadsheet if not the spreadsheets themselves. -- Jim "joel" wrote in message ... | hi~ | i'm teaching my class excel and the students have to save their homework | files to a network folder designated for them. i recently caught students | taking copies of their homework files and transfering them via thumb drives | to other students folders. the only reason i knew they did this was because i | looked at the author property in file-properties and saw that the original | author was not the user in whose folder it was in. | i have a feeling as soon as i confront the students about cheating they will | be looking for how i found out and a way around this. you can easily change | the author on a file and i was wondering if anyone knew of a way to prevent | this. is there a registry entry that can be edited so that the author box is | filled in automatically with the original user but can't be edited? any help | would be very appreciated. |
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