Marks maintenance suite
Isaac Balbin
isaac at goanna.oz
Wed Apr 20 08:54:17 AEST 1988
[ I apologise for the choice of newsgroups (wizards), I got NO reply from
comp.sources.wanted; maybe the high signal to noise ratio means lots don't
read it? I can't believe that no such programs exist in the whole wide world]
We in the Department of Computer Science, at the Royal Melbourne
Institute of Technology, in Australia, are currently looking for software
suitable for the inputing, maintenance, manipulation and report writing of
student's marks. I feel confident that there are a few good programs
around somewhere which roughly meet our need. Our requirements are that
it run under Unix (BSD preferably), be screen based (curses) and
have the ability to take as initial input an ascii file (in some fixed format,
this could obviously be massaged) containing the names and student
enrolment numbers of students taking a particular subject.
It should be possibly to assess the student on a number of tests/practical
exercises and the like. It should be able to handle weighting for
each component comprising the final mark for that subject.
It should be able to give some graphs - simple ones or postscript based -
depicting the spread of the marks for all students. One should be
able to standardise etc. If a student is not performing well, it would
be nice to get a summary of that students performance for all subjects.
If you have something which approximates these functions, and you
would not mind another institution using it for strictly educational
purposes, could you be kind enough to MAIL me (or post) details. If there are
many requests for a summary, I will summarise to the net.
Thanks, in advance,
Isaac Balbin.
Note isaac NOT issac
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