[ale] [ALE] Linux happy scanner with dual sided sheet feed?

[Jim Kinney]

HP scanjet is Linux happy using hplip tools.

Brother has some dual sided multi function scanner/printers and their tools
play nicely with sane/xsane.

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 :-}

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.

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.
On Feb 7, 2015 11:28 AM, "Tom Freeman" <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:

>
> 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).
>
> 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.
>
> 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,
> scanning, then finishing up with reassembling each student's effort.
>
> 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.)
>
> As always - thank you for your assistance. And for those without interest
> in this, thank you for the use of your bandwidth.
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