QuickWire: Former Student Sentenced in U. of Missouri Spam Scheme

September 16, 2011, 1:02 pm

A graduate of the University of Missouri and his brother were sentenced to three years of probation after using the university’s computer network in a national spamming operation that hit more than 2,000 colleges and bombarded them with messages, The Columbia Daily Tribune reports. In 2009, The Chronicle reported that Amir Ahmad Shah and Osmaan Ahmad Shah were charged with using their operation to sell more than $4-million in products and damaging the university network. Their sentence included several months of home detention and a stint in a halfway house, plus forfeiture of property worth nearly $500,000.

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dkompare

I went entirely paperless this year, and while I still need to speed up my grading, I’ve found embedding comments in Word to be efficient. I’ve assigned keystroke macros to many common comments (a simple check mark for “good point” to entire sentences like “This would have benefited from another pass through for greater style and clarity.”) which greatly facilitates the process, yet still maintains they’re getting useful feedback.

My problem is taking too long to get to “cruising altitude,” i.e., getting in the grading zone (where you can zip through papers and exams) where the distractions (Prep! Reading! Twitter!) can be set aside.
http://twitter.com/mapastory KBS

I had a look just now. It reminds me of Markin. I confess that I don’t use Markin regularly. I suppose I could set it up to emphasize higher-order concerns, but it comes already set up for sentence-level concerns, and it does take time to customize. (OTOH, you can share the customized buttons with colleagues.) (It’s a UK product, and I hear that in the UK, writing instructors are expected to edit their students’ work.)
steffenm

Looks like a net gain of $3.5 million!