When designing the student data I made the unusual choice not to include the student’s gender in the student table. While the information may be useful for identifying students it really only narrows the field by roughly 50% and I think there are more useful ways to track the information.
Aggregating / Disaggregating Student Assessment Data
When [...]
I’m building OSIMS as a series of Xaraya modules enhanced with ExtJS. Xaraya does a great job at returning whole webpages of information, but that may be more than I need in many cases.
How Xaraya Builds Pages
Web page requests come in through the Xaraya core and are routed to the appropriate module and function. They [...]
The key to any student based information has to be the students. They are, afterall, the reason we’re building the system. In this assessment system we’ll be tying all sorts of data to these students. They’ll be enrolling in schools and classes, participating in educational programs, taking assessments and accumulating requirements toward graduation and certification. [...]