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[Matt <mlb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Congrats! 

BTW - SchoolTool is looking exceptionally good. Love all
the GUI work 

Matt 

On 2012-06-08 15:21, Tom Hoffman wrote: 

> Had a
good meeting yesterday in Richmond with VA CTE and the Autism
> Center
people. Everyone seems excited and on the same page. One
> takeaway from
me is that the Autism Center folks seemed sharp enough
> that if there'd
been another existing tool for this kind of competency
> tracking that
was affordable for a project like theirs, they'd have
> found it. I
can't really explain why this market niche seems
> relatively open, but
when we have the new version done, it may give us
> an opportunity for
growth in the US, at least in programs slightly
> outside the main
stream of K-12 schooling.
> 
> We also went over the importers in detail
with Glenda.
> 
> Various notes:
> 
> * we should make boolean score
system entry easy (toggling)
> * the autism and CTE reports should be
very complimentary in filling a
> wide span of cases, since the first is
very focused on individual
> students and how all teachers are
addressing various skills (i.e.,
> which specific skills aren't we
teaching well) while CTE is more
> focused (but not exclusively) on
teacher and class reports (i.e.,
> which teacher's students aren't
reaching the standard).
> * we need to be able to search from the group
index page
> * we should display the right date format in view views
even if we
> can't really in edit views
> * there is a bug in the
student & teacher import of custom
> demographics, and generally the
import views need to be more explicit
> about looking at headers rather
than guessing based on position.
> * we should probably pre-screen
import worksheets for data types and
> give a very explicit error
message if they aren't what we want
> (usually text, unless we want a
date), including explaining how to
> change the cell format in the
spreadsheet.
> * we need to work on the new section import some more. In
particular
> we're bumping up against what is practical have users use
as an
> initial import AND works as a round trip format for
export/import.
> * we should try just using the whole tertiary
navigation space in the
> skills gradebook as a kind of giant menubar,
since the skillsets will
> often have long titles and no short label.
>
* we need more tests for import/export.
> 
> --Tom
> 
>
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