Re: [seul-edu] Web Based Attendance Tracking report

[Evert Hoff <evert@tsf.org.za>]

Hi Emilio,

We are busy developing a system like that for Linux, but the first 
release will only be available in the second half of 2001, maybe only 
towards the end of the year. 

We haven't lauched our project yet, but it might be wise for me to tell 
everyone about it in advance in order to avoid duplicate work: 

We are a team of three programmers who will be working full-time on 
developing a free, open source school management system. The project is 
called SchoolTool and is funded by The Shuttleworth Foundation 
(www.tsf.org.za). There isn't a website for the project yet, but anyone 
interested in this is welcome to contact me.

The system will address things like registering students, timetabling, 
attendance, tracking student performance (including outcomes-based), 
school budgeting, etc. We are building web functionality into it, while 
at the same time making provision for schools that will not have 
permanent Internet connectivity. Replication of data from the schools to 
districts or states/provinces is core to our design and will enable 
management information to be made available to the school / district / 
state / national government. We are taking global requirements into 
consideration and are designing the system in such a way that it will be 
customisable for any country's requirements. We are making the system 
scalable to fit the available hardware in a school - from one PC per 
school to one per teacher all the way through to one per pupil.

We are busy analysing the requirements for the system, so if you have any 
ideas for features that you miss in your current program, please let me 
know and we'll include this in our design.

Regards,

Evert Hoff
SchoolTool Project Leader
The Shuttleworth Foundation
www.tsf.org.za

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On 2/20/01, 1:24:11 AM, Emilio Gerardo Milian <egmilian@gene.com> wrote 
regarding [seul-edu] Web Based Attendance Tracking report:


> Hello:
> My name is Emilio Milian, and teacher at the South San Francisco Adult
> School.
> http://www.smcoe.k12.ca.us/ssfusd/as/

> I am using a Win NT Visual Basic self-programmed utility for keeping
> attendance in the classes that I teach.

> Pls see the links below for screenshots.  Is there anything similar to
> it for Linux? or can it be programmed by someone else?
> This program was written by my brother for my classes, but it uses
> Visual basic and would like to change to Linux. Is anyboady up to the
> challenge?

> The program is web based so I can login to the server from anywhere
> after I put my account and password.
> It has a database that includes the courses (names, dates, times, room
> location, etc)
> the student database, (name, ss#, address, tel#, age, emergency contact,
> ethnicity, email , etc)
> the attendance database for each of the courses, dates attended, hours,
> if holiday, if excused, etc.
> It can list all students in the data base,
> It can give me a list of students for each course.
> It can give ma an attendance grid for each course as the term
> progresses.

> With this program I can add and revise the databases for courses, for
> example I can add a
> new course with its associated data.
> I can add or update students with its related data.
> I can revise attendance records for each week,  I can print the
> attendance records.

> Do you know if there is anything like it for Linux?  Note: I'm not a
> programmer.
> I have this utility loaded on my own WIN NT web server at my house.
> My brother who worte the program does not use Linux, he is a M$ user.
> It would be great if an utility was available to teachers on the
> internet similar to this.
> Any comments, SUGGESTIONS?

> Drax said he would be looking at it.

> Emilio
> emilian@milian.org

> Images:
> http://www.smcoe.k12.ca.us/ssfusd/as/Test_Dev/images/Image1.gif
> http://www.smcoe.k12.ca.us/ssfusd/as/Test_Dev/images/Image2.gif
> http://www.smcoe.k12.ca.us/ssfusd/as/Test_Dev/images/Image3.gif
> http://www.smcoe.k12.ca.us/ssfusd/as/Test_Dev/images/Image4.gif
> http://www.smcoe.k12.ca.us/ssfusd/as/Test_Dev/images/Image5.gif