On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Zhang Weiwu <[email protected]> wrote: > Pick the scenario where the school management is mostly on sections or > courses, the clerk would frequently need to check what sections / > courses a certain student is participating or participated, or plan to > participate. There is no straighforeward way to do so now (I hope > I am wrong!).
This should appear under "Courses" (really should be "Sections,") on the main page for a person. You can get there via Manage > Persons, and also it is linked directly in different parts of the interface. We will probably change this slightly soon, because it ends up being a little bit of a security hassle because we'd like to have slightly looser permissions on a person's basic info (a person by this name exists...) but at least be able to limit who can see their section enrollments more strictly. For example, in US schools, a "special education" student's status is considered confidential, so the fact that they are enrolled in a "special education" might be limited to a relatively small sub-set of teachers and administrators. Anyhow... all that being said, in the current version it should be right there on the person's page. > 3 improvements can be done to make the clerk to be able to do her job. > > First calendar approach. The clerk can click a student and check his > calendar, drill down the calendar to figure out the list of courses he > took. But she doesn't find what sections he is in. Perhaps the > minimal-change solution is to display section name along course name > in the student's calendar. It is not very convenient thanks to the > steps needed to get the result. One perennial question is: how should sections be identified? What information is most relevant depends on the point of view of the reader -- for example, the name of the teacher and subject may be very relevant to everyone other than the teacher, but for the teacher, seeing five sections labeled "Hoffman - English 9, Fall 2010" is not helpful. The teacher would rather just see "8:30," "9:30," etc. Any thoughts on this? > Second method is to produce list of sections of students. It can > either be a single big report table of sections by students covering > all students, or, one list of sections per student, on each student's > profile page. The former is more convenient for clerks while the > latter can include students as the users. > > > Third, a roster table of all lessons of a student (instead the existing table > of all students of a lesson) can help. Overall, more reports like the above would probably be helpful (and necessary). --Tom _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~schooltoolers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~schooltoolers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
