My experience of paperless coursework submission at Kingston University has been mixed, but on the whole encouraging! I first tried it a few years ago when 60 second year students were requested to submit some spreadsheet chemistry exercises on floppy disk for marking. I detected several viruses on disks that had been prepared on students home PCs. Beware! On the plus side I was still using the uncollected disks two years later! More recently I tried Email submission of similar work from the first year diploma students. I received several blank attachments, lots of files called "task1.doc" etc which all had to be renamed as they were extracted - it was a nightmare! Having said that the marking and return of the work was the quickest ever and I have repeated the exercise with better instructions with more success. I'd say that on the whole that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, but you really need to think about the experiment before you launch it! I won't be asking for disk submissions again. Richard Singer ----------------------------------------- Dr Richard Singer School of Applied Chemistry Kingston University Penrhyn Road Surrey KT1 2EE UK Tel 0181 547 2000 ext 2471 FAX 0181 547 7562 ----------------------------------------- ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)