[schooltool] Greetings from Finland and a question on student data

[Tom Hoffman]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Elias Aarnio <elias.aarnio at coss.fi> wrote:

> It has been interesting to read about the student data discussion.
> During the discussion I received a copy of a brand new Finnish XML
> definition on student data. It is quite comprehensive and it has been
> designed carefully to cover all different kinds of education from
> preschool to higher education. The definitions are designed to ensure
> interchangeability of data between the data systems of different
> educational institutions and administrative bodies.

> Now, I would like to ask would it be possible to include this definition
> into the data definition of Schooltool. I understand this would be a
> challenging task. On the other hand the needs and practises are
> relatively similar all over Europe and the trend is towards greater
> unity in things like this.
>
> What do you think about this?

Hi Elias,

Thanks for your interest.  I'd certainly like to have a look at the
definition, can you point me to a copy of it?  We're trying to make a
default schema which will work in a wide variety of schools.

However, what we'd really want to do in a case like yours, where we
can coordinate at a national scale, is set up a custom profile for
your country that provides the demographic schema and reports you
need.

--Tom