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

[Gregory Beyer]

Eureka!  I second this.  Instead of YOU owning their problem, push is 
back out on them!   Well done, Scott!
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*Subject: *Re: [ale] [ALE] Linux happy scanner with dual sided sheet feed?
*From: *Scott Plante <splante at insightsys.com>
*To: *Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
*Date: *Tue, 10 Feb 2015 11:27:14 -0500 (est)
> 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.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From: *"Tom Freeman" <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net>
> *To: *"ALE" <ale at ale.org>
> *Sent: *Saturday, February 7, 2015 11:25:30 AM
> *Subject: *[ale] [ALE] Linux happy scanner with dual sided sheet feed?
>
>
> 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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