[schooltool-dev] Request for help

[Tom Hoffman]

Hi Madison,

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Chuanhui Zhu <Chuanhui.Zhu at xjtlu.edu.cn> wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> Thank you so much for quick reply.

Sorry for the slow reply this time.

> We need to manage a lot of demographic information like what is shown in the attached spreadsheet.
>
> By stream, we mean a big group of students whose programme of study fall in the similar fields, e.g. engineering, business, science and etc.
>
> Downward we divide streams into groups and subgroups for the sake of timetabling. Groups usually have not more than 200 students, and subgroups 20 (for English classes only). The smallest group is EAP-Tutor, also for English tutorials, usually consisting of 5 students.
>
> The above way of grouping is used for Year 1 and Year 2. For Year 3 and Year 4, students grouping will be easier, because we don't have English classes. We just group them according to their different programmes of study.
>
> What we would like to get from your software is that we can upload as many fields of student information and then can see and management this information on the web browser. Then we can allocate difference subjects to different teachers for them to management their own classes and students' grades.

Hm... we used to have hierarchical groups, which I think is what you
need to really do what you describe above. but pruned that out as part
of a general campaign to simplify the application.  As it stands now,
I don't think SchoolTool would be particularly good at helping you
create and organize the groups and subgroups.  Once you know the
classes, you could import them and the teachers could use the
gradebook, etc., but we don't model the overall organization very
well.

--Tom