Jackie F. wrote: > >maybe we should see what others are doing. Our Elementaries have been waiting for years for JMC to come through with a way to bring benchmarks to a prograss report, and if possible, tie it to a gradebook. After eight years I finally caved and built our own progress report with the "Skills Checklist" of our elementaries, which basically has the grade level benchmarks plus detailed reading data; fluency, BRI, etc.
As of this quarter we're running live with FileMakerPro 7/8, pointing to a FileMakerPro8 Advanced Server. We had over 60 users on it simultaneously over the WAN (54Mbps) with just a tad of latency. The teachers find their class, input their grades, and navigate to a print menu, where they choose english or spanish. It's working, but not without some pain. Printing legal size, for one thing, is tricky for some teachers. Then there's home access. (We put FMPro on Citrix to resolve that.) Underneath I added the students' state ID and building so we can, at least in theory, do longitudinal analyses. The bottom line is that JMC is not meeting our Elementary needs, nor our district's data needs. When I see Pearson's Inform database I'm blown away. Call me crazy, but shouldn't a district be able to design their own reports? More so, shouldn't teachers be able to see data so they can do _real_ data-driven decision-making? Steve Scarbrough Technology Coordinator Storm Lake Community School District 712.732.8100 fax:8101 --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] --------------------------------------------------------- Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------
