On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Phillip Tarrant <[email protected]> wrote: > The only problem with this is that we're in the middle of making >> >> several changes to the gradebook that will be in the next release. > > > They are only entering in one class, they are still using the normal > gradebook program also and they both expect that the grades can be "wiped > out" or messed up as this is a "test" and "beta" they are doing their > smallest classes (5 students in advanced math for example) so the data is > never too hard to recreate. :) we are also keeping "double copies" and > using our old program for production, this is strickly a test system :P
Right, as long as your teachers don't completely judge us by the current state of the release, and some of your feedback may be slightly obsolete. >> Yes. That's a known bug. I think we've fixed it already. > > Glad the new person bug is fixed especially if i have to re-enter all this > sometime :) >> Hopefully you won't get many code errors. In particular let us know >> what "must have" features we're missing. > > you may have opened a can of worms on that one man... lol here is just day > one. > > we all love the interface and are very excited about it. (our old gradebook > was a glorified excel program...) > > <--~~**Features we like and don't wanna ever lose**~~--> > *Sorting the gradebook per activity (nice to find lowest grades on an > assignment) > *Love the green "you haven't saved yet" > *The "change timetable for one day" feature (very nice incase we swap > periods around for stuff) Yeah... make sure and check to see if the "change timetable for one day" actually works the way you expect it to. > <--~~**Features we expected but found missing**~~--> > *Is it possible to have students auto-move to the next term? > this seems like quadruple the work since most students stay in the same > classes per term (4x 9 weeks system) I've got that as a "critical" bug at this point. > print report cards per student? (batch as well) We're finishing planning the report card generation now. > *Is it possible to add save worksheet templates? > this is something our old program did, we could save the "activities" > as a template. > This saved alot of data entry at the beginning of the year since > teachers normally teach the same things every year, using the same > activities. This would be a good idea to add to the list. > *Is it possible for the gradebook to keep grades to the tenth place? (i.e. > 97.4%) > our students are very competative, many of them are just a tenth of a > point off from one honor vs another. we would like all "final" > grades to be rounded to the tenth (or hundrenth would be cool too) That shouldn't be a problem. One big change which we're planning on implementing is switching the gradebook to just use numbers and points -- rather than allowing you to enter A-F, etc. for assignments. We aren't changing the underlying model, so we can work out a way to accommodate other grading systems going forward (and we'll support them for the report cards), but in particular we're baffled by what the proper behavior would be in a gradebook where a teacher tried to mix different grading systems (numbers, letters, etc). > <--~~**Suggestions of things to add or change**~~--> > *instead of "worksheet" could it say "gradesheet" > *can we customize the values of the final grades? (per school / server > setting) > i.e. we don't use a "D" grade here, just A,B,C,F Yes, we'll probably need to do that sooner or later. You can do it relatively easily in code right now. > *is it possible for teachers to assign their own students? > seems it would save our administration alot of work, and most teachers > here are used to doing it We could allow this to be set. You're not the first to ask for it. I didn't think it was a very common use case, but perhaps I'm wrong. > *can we "auto group" by grade level. (i.e. all 10th graders together) > perhaps have a new field for graduation year? Yes... we generally need stronger handling for grade levels. We had an over-engineered system for handling this, but haven't yet implemented something more practical. > *drop lowest grade button in the gradebook? > some teachers drop the lowest grade of students we are used to doing it > by hand, and the "sort" feature makes it easy to find the lowest per > activity, but is it possible to either find the lowest grade per student for > a class? and maybe have it auto-drop it? We can add that to the list of things to do. > <--~~**Bugs:**~~--> > *Calendar: > it would appear either my timetable is WAY out of wack, or the calendar > isn't showing it correctly > Our home room starts at 8am, however its on the bottom of my calendar > and for some reason all periods after that are above it on the calendar > and reported as starting at 3am? (one example) It is probably a timezone issue. The user is probably set to prefer a different timezone than the school. I thought we've changed the behavior to assume everyone is in the schools timezone, but perhaps it isn't in the release yet. > *I had some bugs earlier yesterday..server crash. > They where fixed by a "reinstall" on top of itselft, i think it was a > permissions issue. > > *Host = > getting the host = 0.0.0.0 setting to work was iffy at times. > at first i tried host = 0.0.0.0 no one could access it after a reboot > i then tried removing the line... this worked great after a > reboot...but around 3 hours later it crashed? > added the line back in...host = 0.0.0.0 and all worked great after a > reboot Hm... this is with the Ubuntu packages? --Tom _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
