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A small and secure submission system for UNIX systems

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Roland H. Untch,

Ralph Butler,

Chrisila C. PetteyAuthors Info & Claims

ACMSE '05 vol 1: Proceedings of the 43rd annual ACM Southeast Conference - Volume 1

Pages 341 - 344

https://doi.org/10.1145/1167350.1167445

Published: 18 March 2005 Publication History

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Often the only choices available for submitting assignments are paper, diskette, or e-mail. Yet each of these media has major shortcomings. This paper delineates these shortcomings, reviews previous attempts at creating useful assignment submission systems, and describes a new submission system, named turnin. This UNIX-based submission system is attractive because it is small, simple, easy to maintain, and intuitive to use. One of the major problems addressed by the design of turnin is support for submission of files across multiple NFS mounted file systems. Other features include the ability to enforce due dates, keep files in secure locations, keep accurate time stamps for individual submissions, and provide feedback to students about the status of their individual submissions.

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Barbosa SButler RPettey C(2017)A MultiChain-Based Homework Submission System2017 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI)10.1109/CSCI.2017.185(1061-1066)Online publication date: Dec-2017
https://doi.org/10.1109/CSCI.2017.185

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A small and secure submission system for UNIX systems
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
  2. Enterprise computing
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education

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ACMSE '05 vol 1: Proceedings of the 43rd annual ACM Southeast Conference - Volume 1

March 2005

408 pages

ISBN:1595930590

DOI:10.1145/1167350

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Mario Guimaraes
Kennesaw State University

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Barbosa SButler RPettey C(2017)A MultiChain-Based Homework Submission System2017 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI)10.1109/CSCI.2017.185(1061-1066)Online publication date: Dec-2017
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