[Year 12 IPM] OT: Markbook Co-ordinator

[Laurie Savage]

Pascoe Vale Girls has about 1450 students and I'm the new Markbook 
coordinator/student assessement reporting person. At our last school 
review it was decided to create the position as a LT1 with 3(!) periods 
time allowance. The job is bigger than that - but not continuously. The 
time consuming parts are creating and validating all your data imports 
and report design.

What have I learnt?
1) Sit down with all your data providers before it gets urgent and try 
to get consistent IDs for students, teachers courses(subjects) and classes.
2) Make sure you understand the relational model for databases - just so 
you know what's happening.
3) Get acquainted with Markbook's help desk - they are very, very good.
4) Make backups!
5) Brush up your Excel skills.
6) Don't Panic!

Best wishes,

Laurie

Lesley Humphries wrote:
> Good morning,
> 
> Our school has just purchased Markbook, and I have been appointed 
> Markbook Co-ordinator. We haven't had computerised reporting before. I 
> just wondered if anyone could let me know how the co-ordination of this 
> is done in other schools. Is it a separate POL with time release, is it 
> a part of the Learning Technologies Co-ordinator's role, etc?
> 
> Any advice gratefully accepted.
> 
> Thanks, Lesley
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> Learning Technologies Co-ordinator
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Laurie Savage
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Student Assessment, Reporting and Tracking
Pascoe Vale Girls College, 03 9306 2544
Lake Ave, Pascoe Vale, Victoria, 3044
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