Hi, sorry to reply to my own thread.
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > 1. I've been going over the testing site on demo.schooltool.org. I'm sure > in the past that I managed to find how to call a roll (aka attendance). I see it in action now (it looks like someone inserted some new calendar entries to make it obvious, thanks). Having seen attendance again now, a couple of comments: a. One of the requirements mentioned by our school was the possibility for a teacher, while calling the roll, to be able to see whether a student is in school today. So, if a student is not in their class they can see immediately if that student has been marked in previously today (and is mitching) or if they are just absent today. Would it be possible for some sort of small coloured icon to appear beside each student indicating whether they have been marked present in a prior class that day? b. It seems that once one has entered attendance, the form becomes immutable. This seems inconvenient. Either a teacher must not press submit until the very end of class or else they cannot mark someone in late, should they arrive after submit is pressed. It would be handier if they could re-edit the roll at least until the end of the class. My school (like many others) runs an initial roll call, at 8:40am before 1st class at 8:45am. This roll is the master record of whether a student is present on that day or not. If a student arrives late, they must first go to be marked in on the roll sheet before going to class. This master roll call is partially to do with the impossibility of checking all class attendances for the day, but it also helps discourage tardiness. I had presumed we could just treat it as another class for attendance, but issue [b] above really would ruin that. Otherwise, I don't know if there is any good reason to treat this attendance as special, except perhaps as a single attendance record to be used to flag students as described in issue [a]. Perhaps these issues are all in hand, if so, I guess you can ignore me. I just thought I'd give the perspective of our school. Many thanks as always, Gavin _______________________________________________ Schooltool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schooltool.org/mailman/listinfo/schooltool
