prevent change in author

[Guest]

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]

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
| 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.