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

[Thomas Doggette]

I don't have access to that cando permissions spreadsheet-- Could
someone add me (tdoggette at gmail.com) to the list of people that can
see it?

On 7/20/07, David Welsh <rdavidw at gmail.com> wrote:
> Welsh can provide a little background info to the concept of "course"
> teacher...
>
> Stephen Richter and I added it to the CanDo permissions spreadsheet (
> http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pZiKmHI-5w7CzcELs9ZygNQ&hl=en_US&pli=1)
> as we worked with the UI .
>
> The reason we added it is that we realized that there is a "course" object
> which requires ownership.  Most of the curriculum happens at the  "course"
> and not the "section" (which we are increasingly calling the "class") level.
>  So the question is, "who has the right to attach curriculum or competencies
> to the "course"?
>
> One easy answer is to say that any instructor of a section (or class) of the
> course, has the right to attach curriculum or competencies to the course.
>
> A second more restrictive answer is that only a course lead teacher(s) can
> add curriculum to the course.
>
> I like the second option for CanDo, where Tom rightly said that we give MORE
> permission, in general, to instructors.  And at least at the Career Center,
> usually there is only one or two instructors per course.
>
> How this gets handled in the code is best worked out by developers.  Richter
> thought it important to create the concept of the "course" teacher,
> nonetheless.
>
> I hope this background helps.
>
> --Welsh
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> On 7/19/07, Tom Hoffman < tom.hoffman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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
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