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digital signatures for student work

2008-12-17 10:48:57

greenmj

Registered: Aug 21 2006

Posts: 21

Answered

Any ideas on how to use digital signatures in forms for online students? I'd like to think this option might help track/control one student using a document and not passing it on to peers to submit work.

Verifying student identity and validating student work is issue from the Higher Education Act of 2008.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.0, Macintosh

2009-02-20 10:33:38

lkassuba

Registered: Jun 28 2007

Posts: 3636

This question also came up in the [url=http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p26106856/]December Security eSeminar[/url] (you can check out the Q&A transcript). A couple of the suggestions were:
- You would have to create or procure a digital ID for each student.
- The document would need to be Reader enabled to allow signatures (version 8 and higher of the Reader).
- You could also use seed values to ensure the correct student signs the file.

Lori Kassuba is an AUC Expert and Community Manager for AcrobatUsers.com.