Re: [seul-edu] Open Admin for Schools Feedback/Question

["Dave Prentice" <prentice@instruction.com>]

Louisiana schools have 2 2-quarter semesters, for a total of 4
reporting periods.
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Jackson Miller <lists@jaxn.org>
To: seul-edu@seul.org <seul-edu@seul.org>
Date: Saturday, November 02, 2002 6:44 AM
Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Open Admin for Schools Feedback/Question

We have 2 semesters each made up of 3 6-week periods.  There are 6
report cards in a year.

-Jackson

On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 01:39, Les Richardson wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm wrapping my head around the problem of creating report cards for
the
> Open Admin system. I'm trying to create a system that is quite
general in
> scope and relatively easily customized. There is a trade off since
trying
> to be all things to all people will generally fail and it might be
better
> to create simpler code that is easier to customize for specific
needs,
> rather than create gigantic code to cover all possible cases.
>
> This leads to my question:
>
> How many "terms" or sections of a school year throughout the world
in
> schools of users on this list?  I'm planning for either 3 or 4 terms
per
> school year. Are there others? (ie. a lot of others?)
>
> Since this system reports on attendance as part of the report card,
I have
> to slice the school year up into terms, calculate the number of
school days
> per term, and then check this against student records to generate
stats.
> However this leads to the problem of how many terms to allow for in
laying
> out the report in a table format since normally one wants to go
across:
>
> Attendance   Term 1    Term 2    Term 3, etc. How far to go....
>
>
> This is also a problem for reporting subjects since we again would
like to
> go across the page with the different term values:
>
> Science   Term 1   Term 2    Term 3
>
> and different numbers of terms require different table layouts.  I
was
> going to stick with options for 3 or 4, but what are the needs?
>
>
> Les Richardson
> H. Hardcastle School
> Edam, Sk. Canada
>
>