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How do I lock settings for a student for testing purposes
I am a teacher and am working with a student who is in the autism spectrum.
He is very knowledgeable about computers. One of his writing accomodations is to type on the computer but I need to lock all the settings so that he can not use spell check or grammar check or change margins etc. |
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How do I lock settings for a student for testing purposes
If he is very knowledgeable about computers, he will likely be able to work
around any restrictions you place on him. Have you really thought about why you are imposing these restrictions? What real purpose does it serve? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "sdhcteacher" wrote in message news I am a teacher and am working with a student who is in the autism spectrum. He is very knowledgeable about computers. One of his writing accomodations is to type on the computer but I need to lock all the settings so that he can not use spell check or grammar check or change margins etc. |
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How do I lock settings for a student for testing purposes
sdhcteacher wrote:
I am a teacher and am working with a student who is in the autism spectrum. He is very knowledgeable about computers. One of his writing accomodations is to type on the computer but I need to lock all the settings so that he can not use spell check or grammar check or change margins etc. You have my sympathies, but my best advice is not to allow this student to use Microsoft Word for this purpose. The combination of technical knowledge and obsessive behavior is going to be very hard to contain. Word is designed for maximum flexibility and maximum ease of use, and there is almost no way to lock it down -- especially when the person you're trying to limit probably knows more about the program than you do and is willing to spend a lot of time getting around your restrictions. You can remove the spelling and grammar feature from Office as follows: Go to Control Panel Add/Remove Programs, select Microsoft Office, and click the Change button. Choose to add/remove features. Under the Office Shared Features group, mark the Proofing Tools as "Not Available". (If the student is ever left alone with the computer, he may reinstall the feature, so you'll have to check it occasionally.) If the Office version is 2003 or 2007 (I can't remember now whether this was in Office 2002), you can use the Protect Document task pane to restrict formatting to a selection of styles and/or to specific areas of a document, and this could be applied to the Normal template used to create blank documents. The selection can be protected with a password. I can't tell whether this will let you restrict all the things you want -- "etc." covers a lot of ground. Good luck! -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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How do I lock settings for a student for testing purposes
That's a very interesting question. What kind of a test is it? Will the
student be supervised? You can create a form and then lock the form with a password. Then as long as the student is supervised periodically during the test, you can make sure he does not fiddle with it. You can make the text portions of the test graphical so that the only place to type is in a form field. You might also want to try using Adobe Acrobat since PDF files cannot be edited with the adobe reader. You'll need access to the acrobat editor file. "sdhcteacher" wrote: I am a teacher and am working with a student who is in the autism spectrum. He is very knowledgeable about computers. One of his writing accomodations is to type on the computer but I need to lock all the settings so that he can not use spell check or grammar check or change margins etc. |
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