Please can you suggest a design strategy for a Student Attendance module...
I'm relatively new to databases and Ninox so would appreciate some help!
I want to create a module within a larger database that allows a teacher to keep a record of whether or not students have attended lectures. So, if I've understood the correct design principles, I've created two tables; one to list all the STUDENTS by name and another to list all the LECTURES by date and subject. Having some experience with Filemaker, and given that the relationship between STUDENT and LECTURES is "many to many", I understand the next step is to create an intermediary table of transactional data which I would call ATTENDANCES. In this table I would create a field with an external N:1 link to the STUDENT table called "Student name", and another field with an external N:1 link to the LECTURE table called "Lecture to be attended" and then a choice field to reflect whether or not the student actually attended, called "Attendance confirmed?". The value choices for this would be "Attendance confirmed", "Student absent" and "Student absent with satisfactory explanation".
So far so good I hope but what I now want to do is to design a data input form so that the teacher, after every lecture can just go down a list of pupils entering whether or not they attended. Then, attached or accessible via an individual student record, there should be a list of all the lectures and whether or not they attended, and conversely, for each lecture, a list of all the students and whether or not they attended. I'm not sure how to do this. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
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Dear Mathie,
That would be a good question for our webinar and it would be nice if you could bring it up there.
Thank you very much.
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Hello,
I'm interested in such a module too. I'm trying to manage the Attendance record with Ninox using the sample solution from http://mconneen.infointegrators.net/ninox/Class%20Attendance.ninox and I will later need to share the screenshots with the instructions for other teachers at our school in Lucerne (those who teach business economics online in particular)
Adrian Altenburger,
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This thread gives a bit of back ground on the "Class Attendance" database referenced above.
https://ninox.com/en/forum/technical-help-5ab8fe445fe2b42b7dd39ee7/question-on-trigger-script-automatically-enrolling-the-students-of-a-class-when-linking-a-course-to-the-class-5e3d8f6ea734ee588371e883?post=5e3ddb8ca734ee588371e893&page=1The User Interface was not the focus.. the data model was. So while a Class has a Roster of students.. for each session, that "roster" builds an Attance Sheet that you can use to check off if they attended or not.
In the USA .. even for univeristies... Attendance records are required .. not for grades.. but to sustantiate student grants and such.
Content aside
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