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Great question. I have talked with a number of potential customer as well as actual customers. The most unusual application came from a school educator. The course being taught was a continuing education course in programming VBA code within Excel. The instructor was looking for a way to present the assignments to the students and both receive and track receipt of completed assignments from the students.
Distributed Spreadsheet was an easy solution. The instructor creates a workbook containing a single worksheet for each student. Each student is assigned Contributor status for their page. The instructor put all the assignment details on the first worksheet and then copied the first worksheet to all the other pages. The worksheets are sent to the students via Distributed Spreadsheet. Each student receives only their assigned worksheet. When the students complete their assignment, they return their worksheet containing the assignment to the instructor. Using the Analysis Center tool within Distributed Spreadsheet, the instructor monitors who has returned each assignment, file and store those assignments easily and of course, evaluate the assignments for grading purposes.
If you have heard of Distributed Spreadsheet being used in unusual ways, please post them here. We look forward to hearing your stories.
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