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Re: [Schooltoolers] General SchoolTool Goals for 2013

 

Thanks, David! Let me add that SchoolTool has already greatly
benefited me personally by making my job more fun and less tedious.  I
imagine it has benefited my students too, since they now have direct
access to data that can help guide their learning, *and* they have a
teacher who smiles more ;-)

jeff

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:06 PM, David Ally <david_ally@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> Thank you for this effort, making gradual progress, who knows where this is
> taking us, little sacrifices here and there, and the world would be the
> better for it.
>
> Best regards!
> David
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: SchoolTool Developers <schooltool-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
> SchoolTool Users <schooltoolers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 8:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [Schooltoolers] General SchoolTool Goals for 2013
>
> Jeff Elkner reminds me of another important goal, integrating SchoolTool
> Quiz.
>
> Jeff has been funding (personally!) Douglas Cerna to create a system
> attached to CanDo that allows teachers to create online quizzes for their
> students.  Individual questions can be tagged with skills in CanDo to
> automatically update a student's skill rating in the gradebook based on quiz
> results.
>
> It is quickly becoming a very compelling system and deserves a full
> description in the near future.
>
> We're aiming to include SchoolTool Quiz in our 13.10 release.
>
> --Tom
>
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Here's what we'll be working on this year in rough order by priority:
>
> 1) Finishing and releasing new infrastructure for reports and asynchronous
> tasks like long running imports, big reports, and scheduled events.  This is
> more or less done but it is still a big packaging and testing job to get
> into the 13.04 Ubuntu release.
>
> 2) Timely bugfixes.  We're not emphasizing big new development projects this
> year, so it will be easier to turn around bugs as they come in.
>
> 3) Many more and better designed printed reports.
>
> 4) More and better designed (more data graphics) web reports.
>
> 5) Iterating on existing components, particularly the attendance journal.
>
> 6) Medium sized new features -- parent login, student enrollment statuses, a
> few others.
>
> 7) Usability improvements to initial setup.
>
> As always, your feedback is welcome!
>
> --Tom
>
>
>
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