[Cando] Re: [schooltool-dev] "Course teacher"?

[Tom Hoffman]

On 7/19/07, Paul Carduner <paulcarduner at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think "Course Teacher" refers to two different things at one time.
> First, it refers to a section teacher, which is very obvious to all of
> us what a section teacher does.  The second is to what is actually
> called the "Leader" in schooltool.  The (course) "Leader" has a much
> fuzzier definition.  I imagine the course "leader" has additional
> control over the sections related to the course.  Maybe Tom and/or
> Dave Welsh can explain more thoroughly what the idea is behind a
> course "leader".

The "leader" would have permissions to do things like indicate which
competencies are required by a course, or what activities are required
by the course.  In many cases it would be a department head.  I'm not
sure if CanDo recognizes this, since teachers in CanDo have more power
than they ultimately would in most high school administrative
structures.  But that's what it is for.

At this point, "leader" tends to be a generic term for "person with
more permissions than a teacher in this context" if we can't think of
anything more appropriate at the time.

--Tom