Command Question

Anyone know a linux command (or Solaris) that copies console / SSH sessions input/output and stores it in a text file for later retrieval?

Basically, I want to do some linux studies at home then e-mail the text file to my instructor that shows all my input and output.

A few years back I took an advanced Solaris class and our instructor has everyone SSH into his machine, execute a command (can't remember), then do our test / quizes, then we would exit the command (can't remember), then close SSH. The instructor would go into a text file and see all the students input / output from the SSH session.

I suppose I could just copy / paste my console window but that wouldn't be geek enough.

Thanks, Paul