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>Subject: Re: #7135 lab attendance tracking
>From: Bob Majors <[log in to unmask]>
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> We are looking for a good way to track attendance in our 30-station
> networked lab. Student use is approximately 840 use hours per week
> because of a 2-hour per week lab requirement for students in all of
> our 111, 115, 122 and 222 language classes. This is a Mac lab
> running OS9, but as soon as I can convince people to dump some old
> software, we will move to OSX. Our university will have a 9.2% cut
> in budget next year, so we will need to find something very cheap.
>
> TBob
Apple Network Administrator Toolkit (ANAT) is an OS9 tool, but with OS X, at
quick glance, it appears that Server Status (an OS X server tool free with
the server; can be run on server and a client) is the closest Apple tool,
which if true, is a pity comparing it to ANAT. It has a Logs tab, then you
can select AppleFile, and Access Log to get login and logout time per user,
plus activity. The log should be readable into your favorite
database/spreadsheet, where you could roll your own stats. (I was thinking
Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) might have been a solution, but I don't think it
does lab-type stats.) Also check: http://www.macosxlabs.org (create an
account to get in); they might have some discussion there. Or if you have a
Win2K server, and are able to tie in your OS X lab to it, there would be
some ways to get access data. A good and very relevant question you ask.
Bob Majors
Language Learning Center
University of Washington
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