Colon said:
You need to ask your network administrator about this.
us.
My guess is that you were told at some point where you and
your students were supposed to save your work but it did
not sink in.
It is fairly common practice for anything stored on the local
machine to be deleted at each reboot or logon, with users allowed
to permanently save things only in their personal folders on the
servers or in other folders on the network for which they have
write permissions.
Unfortunately, it is also common for admins to botch this kind
of policy when they try to implement it. As well, it is just
as common for admins to implement the policy reasonably well, but
then they fail to adequately inform the users - or users fail to
comprehend or to remember what they are told. Admins can't, for
example, expect users to understand the difference between local
storage and storage on the servers - users typically only grasp
the concepts of drive letters and folders and admins must be
careful to talk to them only in those terms.
As well, there are still a large number of school computer labs
out there where *no* storage is provided for students to save
their work. In such cases they are expected to use things like
Zip or LS120 disks and even CD-Rs or CD-RWs.
