Refining the overall scope of SchoolTool 2006 development, particularly in reference to support for 6-8 semi-formal test sites. Remember the target for a solid beta for this is April 2006.
SchoolTool 2006 will include: The current calendaring/scheduling/resource management features (with further refinement and improvements, of course). More rigorous workflow based facilities for enrollment, promotion, adding courses & sections, and other interstitial bits of the underlying business logic of student and class administration. A very complete web-based attendance system. A US, UK and SA versions of a student demographic/contact info database. These will be based on established standards for such things in each country. It should be easy enough for third parties to create modified versions for different countries from these examples. We will also produce custom versions of these for test schools if necessary. A simple web-based gradebook for keeping "traditional" point/percentage based scores. This will not have a huge number of features, but should be straightforward and reliable with an nice user interface. A set of generic report templates. Custom templates for test schools, and a growing library of reports developing throughout the year. Generic CSV import forms, and custom migration scripts for test schools. Also, we anticipate CanDo being integrated into the core SchoolTool distribution as competency/outcome/standard based assessment tool. Thoughts? --Tom _______________________________________________ Schooltool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schooltool.org/mailman/listinfo/schooltool
