file properties

I am an online instructor at a Community College. I ask that students to
submit files by email. When students email me files (Word, PP, Excel; Office
2003 and Office 2007) the Created date is stamped but the Modified and
Accessed date changes to reflect the current day. This makes it impossible
to assess the authorship and protect the integrity work if all the students
start with the same pre-created file. Believe it or not (wink, wink) I have
had students sumbit eachother's work as their own. Short of asking that
students submit files on a disk, is there a way for the Modified date to be
static and not change when emailed or downloaded? Are there any other ways
to detect or prevent plagiarism with WinXP or Office. Other than Compare and
Merge or File Properties.

Terry
Fri Nov 09 10:08:56 PST 2007

You can get meta data analysis tools that will let you track loads of
information such as which PC(s) it was opened or edited on and who was
logged in, the times of edit , by whom and other incriminating evidence. But
it also easy to sanitize a document - especially in Word 2007 - so that you
can find absolutely nothing (although that in itself is pretty incriminating
evidence). <g>

Kids are very intelligent and if you even hint that you can analyse their
work and see who has been plagiarising, VERY quickly they will find the
sanitising tools.

--
Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP

"lori" <lori@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C03EA0C8-AF24-4268-91FC-1353473CC444@microsoft.com...
>I am an online instructor at a Community College. I ask that students to
> submit files by email. When students email me files (Word, PP, Excel;
> Office
> 2003 and Office 2007) the Created date is stamped but the Modified and
> Accessed date changes to reflect the current day. This makes it
> impossible
> to assess the authorship and protect the integrity work if all the
> students
> start with the same pre-created file. Believe it or not (wink, wink) I
> have
> had students sumbit eachother's work as their own. Short of asking that
> students submit files on a disk, is there a way for the Modified date to
> be
> static and not change when emailed or downloaded? Are there any other
> ways
> to detect or prevent plagiarism with WinXP or Office. Other than Compare
> and
> Merge or File Properties.
>
>

lori
Fri Nov 09 10:32:01 PST 2007

Hi Terry-Thanks for the speedy reply and the information. I am going to give
one of the tools a go. Sorry abou the crosspost, in the back of my mind I
knew better... Lori


"Terry Farrell" wrote:

> You can get meta data analysis tools that will let you track loads of
> information such as which PC(s) it was opened or edited on and who was
> logged in, the times of edit , by whom and other incriminating evidence. But
> it also easy to sanitize a document - especially in Word 2007 - so that you
> can find absolutely nothing (although that in itself is pretty incriminating
> evidence). <g>
>
> Kids are very intelligent and if you even hint that you can analyse their
> work and see who has been plagiarising, VERY quickly they will find the
> sanitising tools.
>
> --
> Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP
>
> "lori" <lori@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C03EA0C8-AF24-4268-91FC-1353473CC444@microsoft.com...
> >I am an online instructor at a Community College. I ask that students to
> > submit files by email. When students email me files (Word, PP, Excel;
> > Office
> > 2003 and Office 2007) the Created date is stamped but the Modified and
> > Accessed date changes to reflect the current day. This makes it
> > impossible
> > to assess the authorship and protect the integrity work if all the
> > students
> > start with the same pre-created file. Believe it or not (wink, wink) I
> > have
> > had students sumbit eachother's work as their own. Short of asking that
> > students submit files on a disk, is there a way for the Modified date to
> > be
> > static and not change when emailed or downloaded? Are there any other
> > ways
> > to detect or prevent plagiarism with WinXP or Office. Other than Compare
> > and
> > Merge or File Properties.
> >
> >
>