Upload form and upload log with custom file names
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 3:38 pm
Hi,
I am a teacher and I am trying to create a way for my students to turn their work into me. I create a lot of HTML interactive projects for my students and just need a way for them to turn in their work when they are finished. I am getting overwhelmed with an email inbox FULL of files with all different formatting etc.
Basically, my students create word docs. I need an upload form that will ask for First name, last name, email and class period and then pass on into the file name once it is uploaded.
If my students go to http://www.mysite.com/upload and fill in the form, I need their file to look like this:
http://www.mysite.com/upload/[i]class_period[/i]/Firstname-Lastname-class_period-email-timestamp(MMDDHH:HH).doc
I think the time stamp would be helpful if students turn in multiple times.
One more thing I can foresee as a problem is that I cannot open docx files from school, so a check to ensure they are uploading only doc files would be very helpful. Any other suggestions to make this easier would be very helpful.
I could also use a text log of what files have been turned in. I could import a comma delimited text file into my excel grade book and then use VBA code to sort who has uploaded their file already.
Thanks for any help or suggestions and hope I'm not asking too much!
-Kate
I am a teacher and I am trying to create a way for my students to turn their work into me. I create a lot of HTML interactive projects for my students and just need a way for them to turn in their work when they are finished. I am getting overwhelmed with an email inbox FULL of files with all different formatting etc.
Basically, my students create word docs. I need an upload form that will ask for First name, last name, email and class period and then pass on into the file name once it is uploaded.
If my students go to http://www.mysite.com/upload and fill in the form, I need their file to look like this:
http://www.mysite.com/upload/[i]class_period[/i]/Firstname-Lastname-class_period-email-timestamp(MMDDHH:HH).doc
I think the time stamp would be helpful if students turn in multiple times.
One more thing I can foresee as a problem is that I cannot open docx files from school, so a check to ensure they are uploading only doc files would be very helpful. Any other suggestions to make this easier would be very helpful.
I could also use a text log of what files have been turned in. I could import a comma delimited text file into my excel grade book and then use VBA code to sort who has uploaded their file already.
Thanks for any help or suggestions and hope I'm not asking too much!
-Kate