Hi, On Fri, 05 May 2006, Tom Hoffman wrote:
> The background behind a student's name should change if they've > previously been marked absent that day. Does this not seem to be > working? It used to work. It's possible I missed that. I really need to set all this up myself and test it. > The way it is supposed to work is that you check off the students who > aren't in attendance at the beginning of class, and then you can > subsequently convert the absences to tardies if they come in late. Perhaps > I need to prepare some screenshots. I couldn't see a way to do this on the demo site. Just so it's clear, I logged in with teacher001 and used the "attendance" links within the calendar. I'm using firefox on linux. > We've been accounting for this, much to the chagrin of our Lithuanian > developers. They don't have this kind of roll call or homeroom which > makes a Lithuanian attendance system much simpler than a US or UK one > ;-) I was thrown off by the need to do this roll twice daily in UK > elementary schools. That was an unpleasant surprise. Heh, twice! I'm sure a school will want to continue with its existing practices but in many ways I don't see any difference between "roll-call" and an ordinary class attendance. I guess it's really just that "roll-call" would be more used in terms of reports, ie is that student present today but I suspect that's just a residue of the inconvenience of paper-based attendance. I might explain the roles used in some Irish schools in case it's helpful: 1. Certain teachers are assigned as form teachers for a single class of students. They then call the roll for those students first thing in the morning (as well as looking after some other disciplinary issues, etc). 2. If students are late for roll call, they must then report to the House Master before going to class. The house master (being something of an ogre) may then take the opportunity to berate the student for their tardiness. He is generally the only person who adds lates to the roll. This is certainly not the case in every school, but I think it's a fairly common one. > It is very helpful, and it tells me I need to produce some attendance > documentation if I'm going to get more detailed attendance testing. That would be very helpful. I also need to look at how to script population of the data if you can point me to some good docs or examples on that. We're working on getting reports to produce CSVs from the existing MIS. Many thanks, Gavin _______________________________________________ Schooltool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schooltool.org/mailman/listinfo/schooltool
