<p dir="ltr">HP scanjet is Linux happy using hplip tools.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Brother has some dual sided multi function scanner/printers and their tools play nicely with sane/xsane. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Multiguess online only quizzing tends to shut down the grade grubbing when the answers sheet they get is nothing more than "question 1 is chapter 2, section 3.5 chart #2". It's also fun to have 10-20 questions on a 5 question quiz that are selected and ordered randomly. It _way_ fun to have math in the questions with random input parameters so each student test is unique so they can't compare grades :-}</p>
<p dir="ltr">I also like a test with sections of multiple questions of "choose two or three of the following to answer from each section until you answer at least X points" and have each question point value be different.</p>
<p dir="ltr">But my totally fav test process I got in undergrad classical mechanics: test on Friday, take a copy home to rework over the weekend, grade is average of the two.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 7, 2015 11:28 AM, "Tom Freeman" <<a href="mailto:tfreeman@intel.digichem.net">tfreeman@intel.digichem.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
I'm not certain how to properly research this for myself, and my efforts to date haven't suggested anything intelligent. As the Subject: line suggests - I want to locate, then own, a scanner which will scan both sides of a sheet taken from a sheet feeder with the additional need of the device being essentially plug & play in Linux (specifically Fedora 21 and/or Ubuntu 14.04).<br>
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Background information of sorts. I am an adjunct instructor in the community college system who has had to switch community colleges in the past year. Formerly, my students didn't whimper and whine about the grading of their papers much. Certainly they would call me on errors and question me when I was sadly unclear in my comments, which is good. This new school, however, has fierce grade lawyers who will haggle, repeatedly and continually or a point or two here and there with a desparation of the Spartans at what ever pass they held so many centuries ago against the Persians. These people make the pre-meds of years ago look good. I have already gotten in trouble with one program head, although my chair is completely supportive.<br>
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Best I can tell, the best defense here will be to retain copies of all of their graded work. Since the accountants have driven us to double sided documents when the school pays for it, I need to scan both sides of 5-10 page tests and shorter quizes. Being part time (no committees!), I don't have school equipment, nor office, nor file space. Scanning is the only recourse I see at this time. The last test would have represented a total of 110 pages to be scanned. These pages would need bursting first,<br>
scanning, then finishing up with reassembling each student's effort.<br>
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At this point, I'd prefer to limit ideas and such to scanners - but brilliant ideas of a nontechnical nature will be entertained. (The idea of going to 100% multiple guess of 50 question and not returning the papers has occured to me. It is hard to complain under those conditions.)<br>
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As always - thank you for your assistance. And for those without interest in this, thank you for the use of your bandwidth.<br>
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