Thanks, David! Let me add that SchoolTool has already greatly benefited me personally by making my job more fun and less tedious. I imagine it has benefited my students too, since they now have direct access to data that can help guide their learning, *and* they have a teacher who smiles more ;-)
jeff On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:06 PM, David Ally <[email protected]> wrote: > Jeff, > > Thank you for this effort, making gradual progress, who knows where this is > taking us, little sacrifices here and there, and the world would be the > better for it. > > Best regards! > David > > > ________________________________ > From: Tom Hoffman <[email protected]> > To: SchoolTool Developers <[email protected]>; > SchoolTool Users <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 8:20 PM > Subject: Re: [Schooltoolers] General SchoolTool Goals for 2013 > > Jeff Elkner reminds me of another important goal, integrating SchoolTool > Quiz. > > Jeff has been funding (personally!) Douglas Cerna to create a system > attached to CanDo that allows teachers to create online quizzes for their > students. Individual questions can be tagged with skills in CanDo to > automatically update a student's skill rating in the gradebook based on quiz > results. > > It is quickly becoming a very compelling system and deserves a full > description in the near future. > > We're aiming to include SchoolTool Quiz in our 13.10 release. > > --Tom > > On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Tom Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here's what we'll be working on this year in rough order by priority: > > 1) Finishing and releasing new infrastructure for reports and asynchronous > tasks like long running imports, big reports, and scheduled events. This is > more or less done but it is still a big packaging and testing job to get > into the 13.04 Ubuntu release. > > 2) Timely bugfixes. We're not emphasizing big new development projects this > year, so it will be easier to turn around bugs as they come in. > > 3) Many more and better designed printed reports. > > 4) More and better designed (more data graphics) web reports. > > 5) Iterating on existing components, particularly the attendance journal. > > 6) Medium sized new features -- parent login, student enrollment statuses, a > few others. > > 7) Usability improvements to initial setup. > > As always, your feedback is welcome! > > --Tom > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~schooltoolers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~schooltoolers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~schooltoolers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~schooltoolers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
