Word question (kinda related to the internet)

[Rachel Woodlock]

G'day everyone,

I have a question that isn't related to website development, but I was wondering if I could throw it on the table, given you guys are all such whizzes at answering things?

I am doing a course which requires me to email in weekly work in .rtf format which allows the teachers to keep tabs that I am doing okay. For a little bit now, I have had the sneaking suspicion that my lovely documents (that take me ages!!!) aren't even being opened by one particular teacher. Last term I managed to send in a document that was nearly completely empty except for a few words up the top, and I didn't hear a peep! Needless to say I am becoming more and more disillusioned (not just on this issue, this is just the icing on the cake). :\

This term I need to make sure that I am completely wrong about this, before writing up my list of complaints and going and sorting it all out with the appropriate peoplez. So I want to check to see whether my documents are even being opened. I know of "web bugs" that you can put in Word documents, but that seems rather sneaky to me. I don't mind if they have to click some button that says "click to acknowledge receipt" or something, but it needs to be within the Word .rtf document, not just an email. Is there any function, or could anyone give me pointers to achieving this?

Ta
Rachel

[0degree]

This is just a suggestion that needs testing first (if anyone thinks this might not work, please comment):

make a small image (whatever is appropriate) and store it on your server. In your word document, place a link to your image. Now whenever the word document is opened, it will pull the image from your server and thus will show in your site stats section.

Like I said, this is just an idea I have that needs testing first.

Hope this helps :)

Tony.

[teach1st]

I once had a fifth grade student insert this in the middle of a report:
Mr. Roemer, my mom wants to know if you really read all of the reports. Please write back.
The problem with this method is that many teachers may scan the text of some assignments, looking for particular keywords and phrases.