TTussing.es@XEROX.ARPA (09/18/85)
> > It strikes me the student could do his work in a subdirectory of a > directory, owned by the instructor. The student owns his subdirectory > to prevent other students from looking. The instructor arranges with > root to make all these directories become owned by the instructor and > unwritable by others at the cut-off date. This could be done with cron > or at. > How IRRATING that would be. First of all what if the student had more the one computer class (which is fairly common, at least were I went to school). Also almost everyone I knew used their accounts for a myriad of other things besides school work. So should students be given one more account for personal work. Now we're up to 3 accounts. And then what if the student is taking non-computer classes that use a computer (like stat or engineering classes) then they get at least 1 more account. I'll admit that I had a lot of accounts in school, but at least I could use them as I saw fit. I didn't have to sit and think "well, which account can I write to today?" Tara Tussing
hutch@sri-spam.ARPA (Reginald R. Hutcherson) (09/18/85)
When I was a student at U.C.Berkeley the profs would illiminate the problem of a student altering their printout/outputs by basically making the programming assignments a small percentage of the students overall grade. This way most students who would alter their printouts would either not hand in the assignment because it wasn't worth the time and effort, or hand it in and have points taken off. At any rate a given student couldn't actually pass a given classe by simply altering their printouts/outputs, but would have to show some understanding of the sub- ject by means of midterms/final exams. /* -- hutch */ Reginald R. Hutcherson Software Engineer Advanced Information Technology Applications Center SRI International
tim@cithep.UucP (Tim Smith ) (09/25/85)
What's wrong with multiple accounts? At Caltech students ( when I was one, anyway ), were given one account for each class that required the use of a computer, plus one account for random use. The class accounts were paid for by the department that the class was in. This is a good way to teach students about managing temporary resources. Someone who puts a bunch of large files on a class account so he will not be over quota on his personal account gets an interesting lesson at the end of the term... -- Tim Smith ihnp4!cithep!tim
mikel@codas.UUCP (Mikel Manitius) (10/02/85)
> What's wrong with multiple accounts? At Caltech students ( when I was one, > anyway ), were given one account for each class that required the use of > a computer, plus one account for random use. The class accounts were paid > for by the department that the class was in. This is a good way to teach > students about managing temporary resources. Someone who puts a bunch of > large files on a class account so he will not be over quota on his personal > account gets an interesting lesson at the end of the term... > -- > Tim Smith > ihnp4!cithep!tim That's fine on large IBM machines, where the operating system is not robust enough to provide a comfortable enviornemt (such was the case for me using the Michigan Terminal System at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), however, this is not needed on a unix system as you can create directories for all your needs. If you start creating many accounts, you end up with a humungous /etc/passwd, which by the way is scanned many many times per minute on an active system, and you add to the overhead. Mikel Manitius AT&T Information Systems {ihnp4!}codas!mikel 151 Wymore Rd. Rm: 420 (305) 869-2462 Altamonte Springs, FL AT&T-IS ETN: 755 32714