<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Bring your single sheet scanner and a laptop into class, and make the students scan their own tests before they leave. You can make all students put down their pencils 5 minutes before the official end of class if necessary. They score a zero if you don't have both a paper and scanned version of the test. If they complain, tell them to thank their fellow students who constantly grade-haggle.<br><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Tom Freeman" <tfreeman@intel.digichem.net><br><b>To: </b>"ALE" <ale@ale.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Saturday, February 7, 2015 11:25:30 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>[ale] [ALE] Linux happy scanner with dual sided sheet feed?<br><br><br>I'm not certain how to properly research this for myself, and my efforts <br>to date haven't suggested anything intelligent. As the Subject: line <br>suggests - I want to locate, then own, a scanner which will scan both <br>sides of a sheet taken from a sheet feeder with the additional need of the <br>device being essentially plug & play in Linux (specifically Fedora 21 <br>and/or Ubuntu 14.04).<br><br>Background information of sorts. I am an adjunct instructor in the <br>community college system who has had to switch community colleges in the <br>past year. Formerly, my students didn't whimper and whine about the <br>grading of their papers much. Certainly they would call me on errors and <br>question me when I was sadly unclear in my comments, which is good. This <br>new school, however, has fierce grade lawyers who will haggle, repeatedly <br>and continually or a point or two here and there with a desparation of the <br>Spartans at what ever pass they held so many centuries ago against the <br>Persians. These people make the pre-meds of years ago look good. I have <br>already gotten in trouble with one program head, although my chair is <br>completely supportive.<br><br>Best I can tell, the best defense here will be to retain copies of all of <br>their graded work. Since the accountants have driven us to double sided <br>documents when the school pays for it, I need to scan both sides of 5-10 <br>page tests and shorter quizes. Being part time (no committees!), I don't <br>have school equipment, nor office, nor file space. Scanning is the only <br>recourse I see at this time. The last test would have represented a total <br>of 110 pages to be scanned. These pages would need bursting first,<br>scanning, then finishing up with reassembling each student's effort.<br><br>At this point, I'd prefer to limit ideas and such to scanners - but <br>brilliant ideas of a nontechnical nature will be entertained. (The idea of <br>going to 100% multiple guess of 50 question and not returning the papers <br>has occured to me. It is hard to complain under those conditions.)<br><br>As always - thank you for your assistance. And for those without interest <br>in this, thank you for the use of your bandwidth.<br>_______________________________________________<br>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale<br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo<br></div><br></div></body></html>