[Year 12 IPM] OTT - VELS Reporting Software

Thu Aug 10 11:04:33 EST 2006

I am the markbook co-ordinator at our school.

If you choose to modify the format (which is possible, but I have been informed we are not supposed to do), you have to be careful with the templates you alter.

The initial build of the subjects creates the templates but at the later stage when you generate the results it will revert back to the original templates.  You need to have two folders of templates, one for your final print-off and one for all calculations, generations etc

We are supposed to use the template supplied but, as someone mention here last week, there is no room for a course description nor for a description of the items you based your assessment on.  Our school feels that this is a really important part of the report. So did we change them or obey instructions? Ask me directly if you need any help.

We may use the student / parent feedback sheet next year when we use VELS for all subjects but for this year we just made it an extra single sheet created in word.  With regards the student goals sheet I think this might become something outside of markbook as well, purely because of the time factors that will be involved in asking teachers to add the info to markbook.  This is in my to-be-created in 2007 file lost in the dark recesses of my mind to be brought back to light around April next year.

Fiona Bain
Balmoral High
"Rankin, Ellen E" <rankin.ellen.e at edumail.vic.gov.au> on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:29:23 +1000 wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> We have Markbook and think it is great.  How are others who are using it
> working with the Reporting People in their schools to implement the new
> report cards?  Are you totally changing your report formats or are you
> cutting and pasting and including the mandatory sections and adding
> other parts that your school wants or going for the least line of
> resistance. 
> 
> How is your school going to deal with the Student input section?  Are
> they going to type directly into markbook? Or are they going to hand
> write a separate page?  The logistics of them typing into Markbook will
> be something to work out I think?
> 
> Will your parents have a tear off section to return to school later?
> What are you going to do with this?
> 
> Ellen Rankin
> 
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> Subject: RE: [Year 12 IPM] OTT - VELS Reporting Software
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> Hi Michael,
> The import and export facilty in Markbook is excellent. It imports CSV
> files in a very systematic manner. I have used Markbook since 2000 in
> conjunction with Maze (similar to Cases21 - supplied by CAZ) which was
> used as the timetabler package previously. We have now moved to The
> Timetabler which can export the relevant Markbook files in the CSV
> format. Is CASES21 used for timetabling? If your timetable package can
> export the required fields easily and stored as a CSV file, you can
> easily import them into Markbook.
> 
> I will be happy to give further advice if you wish as I have been a
> Markbook Administrator since its inception in our College as well as a
> timetabler for three years before handing the job back to a teaching
> staff.
> 
> Hock Khaw
> Computer Systems Manager MACS PCP MCP
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> On Behalf Of Michael Warden
> Sent: Thursday, 10 August 2006 9:05 AM
> To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management Teachers'
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> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] OTT - VELS Reporting Software
> 
> Hi Laurie,
> 
> You might be right about the cost but it took 10 hours of solid work to
> create the working model based on our school's needs (including deriving
> the algorithm as per department guidelines) - I wanted a challenge!
> Funny thing is - our school has yet to decide whether to go FM Pro or
> Markbook but I suppose they still need to see a working model anyway.
> 
> Can I ask - since we do not have Markbook - How well does it integrate
> with
> Cases21 and other programs - Do you have to export and then import data
> via a txt/csv file and vice versa OR can Markbook directly access data
> from the data files of other programs?
> 
> Please provide some info.
> 
> Michael
> 
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