Document Information/Time spent on document

Hi all,
The school I work for in Tennessee is a 1:1 laptop school, PK-12th grade. A high school English teacher has asked me if there is a way in Pages to see just how long a student has spent time on said document("Suzy, you spent 4 minutes on a 2 page paper?", must have copied/pasted). I have looked in Inspector in the Document tab and see the Info tab, and I know about the Get Info on a file, but nothing states a time. I have heard Word gives this information. Any ideas in Pages?
Thanks for any help.

iWork documents store three date_time values :
SLCreationDateProperty
SLLastModifiedDateProperty
SLLastPrintedDateProperty
I wish to add that we may easily change the stored values but that we can't change the file's creation date_time which is displayed by the system.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 15 novembre 2010 17:18:57

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