Re: How to let CS professors receive program submissions without email blocking them

[Dewight Fredrick Kramer <dfkramer () UCDAVIS EDU>]

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Dewight F. Kramer
Information Security Consultant
University of California, Davis
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> On Jun 27, 2016, at 9:24 AM, John R. LaPrad <jrl () SVSU EDU> wrote:
>
> Hello Colleagues,
>
> We have an issue with Computer Science professors receiving program submissions from students. If students send these 
> programs through email, the system often blocks the email because of executable attachments. We have an LMS that 
> allows assignment submissions that would work, but there are some exceptions where email is still preferred.  We’ve 
> talked about having students change the extensions, but that does not work consistently. Our CS professors would like 
> us to put an exception in our email security rules to allow all attachments to them.  I don’t think that’s a good 
> idea.
> I am wondering how others are handling this?
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
> John LaPrad
> Manager of Technical Services
> Saginaw Valley State University
> 989-964-7134

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