On 1/19/06, Stephan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 19 January 2006 13:30, Adrian Wells wrote: > > Been quiet but lurking for a while... > > Our school is looking to move to International Baccalaureate [IB] > > http://www.ibo.org/, probably in parallel with 'A's for several years. > > Don't know much about it as yet, but will you need special stories for > > this? Ought it be possible to integrate the two - pupils will follow one > > course or the other. So we would effectively have (for the senior school) > > three 'types' of student, GSCE, A-level and IB. > > Now that is a good use case we have not considered yet. Implementing > OR-Requirements. It will not be hard to get around it though. You could > simply set up three independent requirement trees that have been fulfilled. > > However, I doubt that we will have something that correctly handles different > education systems this year. I don't think any of our partner schools require > this.
The big dichotomy here is that we're trying to create a basic data model that will allow lots of bizarre modifications in the future, like schools switching from one pedagogical model to another midstream, BUT we also have to put together an actual piece of software that will run next year. --Tom _______________________________________________ Schooltool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schooltool.org/mailman/listinfo/schooltool
