Hi All Tom Hoffman wrote: > I went over several standards documents for student demographic and > contact info and took a crack at assembling a reasonable common set of > attributes for the sake of starting further discussion. > > Name > ---- > > First name* > Last name* > Prefix > Middle name > Suffix > Preferred > Sort name? > > Demographics > ------------ > > ID # > Gender* > Birthday* > Ethnicity* > Native language > Place of birth > Citizenship > Photo > > Contact (per contact) > --------------------- > > We probably need to be able to attach arbitrary numbers of contact > persons to students. This data would be stored about the student > himself and/or each parent, etc. contact. > > Priority (in list of contacts) > Name (as above) > Address line 1 > Address line 2 > City > State > Country > Postal code > Email > Home phone > Work phone > Mobile phone > Language > > School > ------ > > Advisor > Counselor > > There are sets of properties which can, and perhaps should be, > expressed as group memberships, such as gifted/talented. This may > allow for somewhat easier customization than attaching lists of > boolean attributes to students. > > What would you need to have added? > These look good - Thanks Tom.
Could I suggest having a few (perhaps 5) extra fields that could be used for arbitrary additional data. For example, our students have a student ID, and Exam Number and a Login ID, all of which are useful for different tasks, and all of which I would like to have stored in SchoolTool. However, this is very specific to my institution, and would not make sense to put in for everybody. It would be nice (but not necessary) if the titles of these extra fields could be customised as well. Regards, Neil -- Neil Manson Course Coordinator: School of IT Monash South Africa http://sit.monash.ac.za/ http://sit.monash.ac.za/staff/manson/ [email protected] Tel : 011 950-4035 Cell : 072 298-5124 Skype: neil.manson _______________________________________________ Schooltool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schooltool.org/mailman/listinfo/schooltool
