On 5/5/06, Ignas Mikalajunas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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.
Maybe you were looking at a section that has ended more than 1 hour
ago and seeing a RetroactiveAttendance form ?
Ah, I keep forgetting how you implemented that... So there are two
attendance forms. One like I described--the realtime attendance form,
and one like Gavin described--the retroactive attendance form. They
system picks which one to give to the user based on the time. This
might work well in practice but it might be particularly confusing for
casual testing.
> 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.
There is a view for the ogre guy it's called "Attendance Control
Panel" you can look up any student in there and manage his
absences/tardies. So one would go to the panel, find the student,
yell at student, go to students attendance view, mark the "homeroom
absence" in question, set it to tardy, let the student go.
You can't log in as an ogre on the demo server, though, since we've
only got a simple one.
Also, I added a page on populating students programatically to the
docs last night:
http://www.schooltool.org/documentation/setting-up-a-development-server/adding-students-programatically
--Tom
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