Unusual situation that is unique to education. We have nearly every machine that a student were to touch (labs, libraries, and rolling laptop carts) using VMWare View. Students login as themselves and save documents all the time. During state exams we have all of our special education students login as ExamUser so they do not have access to previous files they have saved and internet access is disabled. Students type answers in MS Word or Wordpad and at the end of the exam print to a printer and logoff.
The issue becomes, what happens in the middle of an exam when a student accidently logs off the computer or the computer has some type of difficulty. Our desktops are set to refresh on logoff so even if they have saved their document to the desktop during the exam, it is lost. The only solution I can think of is issue flash drives and during the exam have users save their documents to the flash drive.
Any other way you can think of to preserver their work in case they log off before printing their test?