[Year 12 IT Apps] Show file extensions?

[Brendyn Hancock]

All

This is a very good question.

We have file .ext turned on. The kids who need to be assured that they
have the correct ext find it useful but most of the others kids have no
idea. In fact most of them (because their machines at home by default
have ext turned off I suspect) delete the ext because they didn't put
that 'funny bit at the end' on so they just don't bother with it when
they rename.

We have most of our issues because it's on.

I reckon the most difficult thing to teach in IT is file management.

Bring back windows explorer or even better still Xtree Gold....

Brendyn

Brendyn Hancock
IT Manager
bhancock at nagle.sale.catholic.edu.au
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Nagle College
5152 6122
Bairnsdale VIC 3875


>>> Russell Edwards <edwards.russell.t at edumail.vic.gov.au> 14/08/2007
8:54 am >>>
A quick question:

Does your school have Windows set up for students to show them the  
file extensions, or not?  What do you think about the policy?

Ours doesn't show them the extensions. I can see why this may be less 

confusing for staff and students with low skill levels, however for  
the better students it is probably _more_confusing. At times it's  
downright annoying, for example when teaching them HTML and telling  
them to guess the extension of an image they wish to include... not  
to mention explaining to them why the file they saved from Notepad as 

"page1" (.txt) doesn't  load up in IE the other "page1" (.htm) does.

Interested to hear what other schools do.  While I'm at it, I'm  
frustrated by the lack of the right-click menu in windows explorer  
for students, and also the blocking of Task Manager--- but I suppose  
there may be security reasons for these.

Russell


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