Student work

[Anonymous]

I am a high school teacher and wanted to know if there is a way to see the history of a drawing to ensure my students are submitting their own work and not sharing files.  I have them submit the .dwg files on google classroom so I can open them. 

[injineri · Accepted solution]

its not possible as I know and think only way them not to copy paste homework is to give every student different task to do.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I am a high school teacher and wanted to know if there is a way to see the history of a drawing to ensure my students are submitting their own work and not sharing files.  I have them submit the .dwg files on google classroom so I can open them. 

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You can invoke the "Time" command and it will give you time lapse for the drawing, but that to can be manipulated. I would stick with different assignments mention previous.

[vinodkl]

Hi,

There is one way. Not a complete solution though.

You can type in the command "TIME" which would show the when the drawing was created and how much time was spent on the drawing, with which you could make a mere assumption of whether it was copied from another drawing or student himself did the work based on the time required to complete the particular assignment.

[pendean]

TIME command can be manipulated once the students figure it out: this is not a reliable gauge, it only works once if at all then it fails.

[nikm42Q9N]

In school we had a teacher who thought everyone is cheating.

-At the start of their drawing have them turn on log filing (logfileon)

This will create a command log file that they should turn in with the drawing witch can be found in the c drive in the AutoCAD files

(https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/3PP-A...)

No log file no grade is what our teacher used to say

[pendean]

Excellent tip indeed.

[ara_neresesian]

Hi

there is a few thing which you can check

1- layers name and color (ask the student to choose a layer name by favorite)

2-cheek the last object they draw (move => last) thay not mus be the same.

3-check coordinate (if you didn't give them any specific point to start - you can give to each student a number different to others for start or end)

4- for each student give different length (tim l=39 jan l=53 and....)

5- check drawing limits.

6- give different drawing to each one.

-and final let them to be happy they will learn everything with experience.  

good luck 

[rayez54751]

I had the same idea. I took autocad in 2009 now I taking the same class again for autocad 2023. so I'm kinda of versed on the old commands and wondering is my professor would be mad if I combined steps to save me time I've been sick 3 days and now it's sunday. One of my completed assignments from school is missing so I'm having to redraw it again. I was wondering if my professor could slow down the redraw to see how I did the assignment. don't know if this will help you but maybe. I just found this app on the autodesk website "HISTORY" 

History | AutoCAD Architecture | Autodesk App Store   this should be the link. looks like it will let you see step by step how it was done