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Student Tracker ™
Microsoft Visual FoxPro was used to develop and implement a relational database application to manage the daily operations of an educational facility. It was impractical to network locations; therefore standalone applications had to be reconciled, with a central data repository. Teacher, class and student activities are compiled in compliance with district, state and federal reporting requirements. The system includes a context sensitive windows help system complete with image maps, table of contents, indexes, and full text search capabilities. The application incorporates configuration options that allow for the definition of site-specific information for inclusion in the database making the application sufficiently flexible to be readily portable across sites. Multiple teachers are supported with multiple classes in a relational architecture that does not predefine the structure of teachers, classes and students enrolled in the various programs. Eligible students are entered into a waiting list and tracked for subsequent enrollment, as scheduled class space becomes available. Daily student activities are compiled and prepared for transmittal to the central repository with transaction auditing capabilities reconciling data after it has been posted. Additions and modifications to the database are logged through an authentication mechanism thereby providing an audit trail. Attendance is entered for students individually and reasons for absences may be distributed by teacher, class, or for the facility as a whole. The attendance tracking mechanism provides for the specification of holidays and other exclusionary days to be used in the calculation of attendance data. This data is compiled and prepared in a format that can be directly inserted into state mandated school registers. Student educational progress is monitored with diagnostic features being available. A weekly planner provides a student roster prescribing student activities and providing a convenient mechanism for recording student attendance and activities for entry into the database. Annual and monthly summary reports may be generated based on a variety of criteria, such as cumulative attendance figures, student/class progress, and number of students that have completed program requirements with average times to completion. Administrative correspondence to students may be created, edited, and managed from within the system, with distribution lists for this correspondence being created by selecting individual students from a list, program enrollment, classes, teachers, or any other available criteria. Memos listing class rosters and other student information may easily be prepared by simply specifying the distribution criteria and selecting the requested class, teacher, or the entire facility.
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