[VELS] Quick Vic/Markbook Reporting Administrative Timeline

Wed Mar 14 15:40:42 EST 2007

You do need to differentiate between subjects and classes. 

You can set up subjects such as 07EN1 for year 7 English semester 1 and have many classes for that subject, eg 07EN1A, 07EN1B, 07EN1C, 07EN1D, etc.

Robert Hind (Semi-retired)
Ex Traralgon and Ashwood

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Laurie Savage 
  To: 'Victorian Essential Learning Standards' 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 10:37 AM
  Subject: RE: [VELS] Quick Vic/Markbook Reporting Administrative Timeline

  The relationship between subjects to classes is one-to-many, and one-to-many between teachers and classes. You need to be able to identify classes uniquely. We have at least 10 form groups per academic year!  

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  From: vels-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:vels-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Roland Gesthuizen
  Sent: Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:02 PM
  To: Victorian Essential Learning Standards
  Subject: Re: [VELS] Quick Vic/Markbook Reporting Administrative Timeline
  Importance: High

  Quick one Laurie .. do you really need the  07A 07B 07C bits when 07 will do? From what I understand the software sorts out classes / students by teachers for marking anyway and again into students for reports. I suspect that Markbook exports course codes .. not class codes (or are these the same things). 

  Thanks for the cue about the last digit .. notice that the software rolls on a digit for semesters etc so I will add that in for semester length courses.

    Course    Classes
    ================ 
    07ENGT1    07AEENGT1, 07BENGT1, 07CENGT1 ...
    10SCIT4    10ASCIT4, 10BSCIT4 etc

  Regards Roland

  On 13/03/07, Laurie Savage <sav at pvgc.vic.edu.au> wrote: 
    Hi Roland:

    Can I suggest you apply even more detail in the subject naming and set up a reporting period discriminator as the last 1 or 2 characters in your courses' i.d.s. If you are using Markbook it will be much easier to select and lock down reporting periods if you do that.

    Here are a couple of examples

    Course    Classes
    ================
    07ENGT1    07AEENGT1, 07BENGT1, 07CENGT1 ...
    10SCIT4    10ASCIT4, 10BSCIT4 etc

    If you use a system like this then you can do a search for *T4 in the Open/Close subjects panel.

    Are we having fun yet?
    Cheers, Laurie

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    From: vels-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:vels-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Roland Gesthuizen
    Sent: Saturday, 10 March 2007 10:28 PM
    To: Victorian Essential Learning Standards
    Subject: Re: [VELS] Quick Vic/Markbook Reporting Administrative Timeline
    Importance: High

    Not so sure about timeline, but at this point I am sorting out the FirstClass database before we start our import of teachers, students and classes. 

    I have been encouraging some extra rigor in our student enrollments, and sorting out all the class codes (you must get these right) We changed from generic names such as "English", "Maths" and "sem2ceramics10" to 07eng, 08mat and 10arcer2 .. details are in the manual / handbook. 

    Hope to finish it all this week so I can start work on our interim report template. Thank goodness it is only a single page template and 500 printouts. At least it sets things up for the mid-year reports.

    Regards Roland 

    On 10/03/07, kgration at myrtlefordsc.vic.edu.au < kgration at myrtlefordsc.vic.edu.au> wrote: 
      Hi there everyone in VELS land,

      We are runnning Quick Vic @ our school (as many are) for the first time this
      year and was wondering if anyone had any timelines to share from previous year/s
      with regard to the practical use of this package (or Markbook) in their school. 
      What I am chasing is detail with regard to reasonable deadlines for staff, for
      myself as the Quick Vic administrator etc. A basic word doc. would do just fine.

      Cheers,

      Kim

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