Congrats!
BTW - SchoolTool is looking exceptionally good. Love all the GUI work Matt On 2012-06-08 15:21, Tom Hoffman wrote: > Had a good meeting yesterday in Richmond with VA CTE and the Autism > Center people. Everyone seems excited and on the same page. One > takeaway from me is that the Autism Center folks seemed sharp enough > that if there'd been another existing tool for this kind of competency > tracking that was affordable for a project like theirs, they'd have > found it. I can't really explain why this market niche seems > relatively open, but when we have the new version done, it may give us > an opportunity for growth in the US, at least in programs slightly > outside the main stream of K-12 schooling. > > We also went over the importers in detail with Glenda. > > Various notes: > > * we should make boolean score system entry easy (toggling) > * the autism and CTE reports should be very complimentary in filling a > wide span of cases, since the first is very focused on individual > students and how all teachers are addressing various skills (i.e., > which specific skills aren't we teaching well) while CTE is more > focused (but not exclusively) on teacher and class reports (i.e., > which teacher's students aren't reaching the standard). > * we need to be able to search from the group index page > * we should display the right date format in view views even if we > can't really in edit views > * there is a bug in the student & teacher import of custom > demographics, and generally the import views need to be more explicit > about looking at headers rather than guessing based on position. > * we should probably pre-screen import worksheets for data types and > give a very explicit error message if they aren't what we want > (usually text, unless we want a date), including explaining how to > change the cell format in the spreadsheet. > * we need to work on the new section import some more. In particular > we're bumping up against what is practical have users use as an > initial import AND works as a round trip format for export/import. > * we should try just using the whole tertiary navigation space in the > skills gradebook as a kind of giant menubar, since the skillsets will > often have long titles and no short label. > * we need more tests for import/export. > > --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 -- Matt Burkhardt, MS Technology Management [email protected] c - 301-802-3235 o - 301-682-7901 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 http://www.imparisystems.com
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