Re: [school-discuss] SEUL/edu ISO software evals

[Douglas Loss <drloss@suscom.net>]

Jeff wrote:

> 5/10/02 12:59:26 PM, Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net> wrote:

>>Matt, Daniel, and Jeff, could one of you publicly volunteer (so the
>>others know about it) to look at "Administrative"
>><http://richtech.ca/cgi-bin/seul/seulvw.pl?category=Administrative>
>>
> 
> I can sort these out into some general categories -  w.g., classroom, student scheduling,
> student records, building management...
> 

Great!  That's very helpful.


> It would be nice to have some guidelines as to what the evaluation should
> include.  Some suggestions might be:
> 
> APPEARANCE - is the interface inviting and self explanatory
> 
> PURPOSE - Does  the program sereve a legitimate need in the school
> where you work?
> 
> UNIVERSALITY -  Can the data files generated be accessed by other programs?
> Are there variable methods of output. Are there ways to input large amounts of 
> data from other sources. (not necessarily directly)
> 
> SPEED - Does this program actually save time, effort and serve a need?
> 
> ACCESSIBILITY - Are the parts of the program easy to use by the intended
> audiences?
> 
> POSSIBLE CHANGES - 
> 
> Also - how do we/where do we sent results?
> 


The initial eval is concerned with one thing only: your PURPOSE.  If 
the program doesn't have a useful place in the schools we should set 
it aside for this ISO.  As I've said elsewhere, if you're not sure, 
keep it in; it will get looked at in detail in the next phase.

The rest of your criteria will be useful for the next phase.  Perhaps 
not for keeping a program from being included in the ISO, but for the 
ratings I mentioned in a reply to Dirk Shouten on the seul-edu mailing 
list.

I'd like everyone helping with this to subscribe to the seul-edu 
mailing list, since that's where the discussion and work on this will 
be done.  You can do so from the main SEUL/edu webpage 
<http://www.seul.org/edu/>.  For this first phase we will assume 
everything will be included, so if you can send a message with the 
category you're evaluating, the apps from that category you think 
should be dropped, and the reason for your thinking so, that would be 
best I think.

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