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joel

prevent change in author
 
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.

Jim Rech

prevent change in author
 
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
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| 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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