Hello,
I'm preparing to combine data from a bunch of sources for a small
alternative school. We have information on students over the years,
teachers, parents, board members, supporters, and contributors to our
fundraising events, currently stored in several different sources.
I'm really excited about being able to use ebase to combine all this info.
But I do have a question about the best way to set things up so that we can
retrieve the information we want.
Ideally, I'd like a way to keep track of the dates a student attended, and
to keep track of current students & parents as well as alumni students and
their parents. It's not clear to me what the best way is.
Here are a few options I've thought of:
1) Keep track of a person's current status by using Issue2. This seems
good because people often have multiple roles: parent, board member,
teacher, etc. Then we could use the memo field to note dates.
2) Keep track of years of attendance, etc. by setting up issues or
affiliations for each year, e.g., "S1999" for student in 1999. The list
could be kept to "current" affiliations, but the old affiliations would
still be stored and presumably could be searched.
3) Set up custom fields for enrollment dates/years.
I'd love to hear from other educational institutions who have used ebase to
track students and alumni.
-- Nellie Pennington
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
for Open Fields School
www.openfields.org
