This is an annotated (my comments follow Alan's notes to himself) list of pre-1.0 refinements, mostly to the gradebook, that Alan is going to be working on the next two weeks. They're in order of priority (the numbers are priority rank, 1 being highest).
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Alan Elkner <[email protected]> wrote: > 1) add due date attribute to activities > this is required > filter activities by due date > 'term (drop-down) section (drop-down) (checkbox) show due in > past n (1-9 drop-down) weeks' We looked at how other web gradebooks handle fitting the large number of columns/assignments one will accumulate over the course of a term (semester). Right now, in SchoolTool's gradebook you can make multiple worksheets (like a spreadsheet) and that gives you one way to break it up. The other method which seemed to give the most bang for the buck is allowing filtering by due date, specifically a checkbox that says "show activities due in the last (select #) weeks." So you can usually only look at what was due in the last week or two, or uncheck it to grade older assignments. Of course, to do this you need a due date attribute, which we obviously needed sooner or later. Post 1.0 we'll make the due dates show up on student and teacher calendars. > 1) add term drop-down to gradebook > if new term has a section with same course as current section, > choose that section > otherwise, choose first in the list Basically, instead of one potentially long list of all the sections/terms you teach in a year (e.g., six courses x 3 trimesters) we'll separate out term and section into separate drop downs. Most of the time teachers will be switching between sections in 1 term anyhow. > 2) add header attibute to layout and have text box on layout view > 5 char limit for headings > optional, use first five chars of activity title if heading not set This is for report cards -- generally you just want like "1," "2," "3," as column headers for each marking period. The manager just needs to be able to set that. > 2) detect unsaved changes in gradebook > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/155739/detecting-unsaved-changes-using-javascript It is fairly easy to give a pop-up warning about navigating away from a page with unsaved changes, so we'll add that. > 2) worksheets should be tabs instead of drop-down > use lyceum tab css > use sample Data.fs tom gave me to check out lyceum journal > (teacher002/teacher002) This will make gradebook worksheets look and act more like spreadsheet worksheets and the month tabs in the attendance journal. > 2) add label attribute to activity > this is not required > explain what the label is for so that it helps the user in > activity add/edit views > if the user doesn't enter one, take the first 5 chars of title We need to let teachers set an abbreviated label for the top of the column in the gradebook. > 3) activity description goes below worksheet tabs and above column headings > when user changes cell, activity decription changes > when user mouses onto a heading, desc changes, mouse off, changes > back to current activity's desc > body onload should set focus to first cell Squeezing in a place to display the full description (actually, should this be "title" not "description," Alan?) of an activity in the gradebook. > 3) Deploy Worksheet as link on school year > in this case, also set up layouts for the user > 4) course title should be all courses, not just [0] and should add > teacher name(s) > if teacher changes from term to term, just show both teachers > after course name --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
