Complete Teacher's Information Management System

[webmanoffesto]

I'm a Moodle user. I like Moodle Gradebook, but that's just what it is (only) a gradebook. Grades are a small part of what a working classroom teacher must track.

I am looking for a Teacher's Information Management System (see below). Are you also looking for the same type of system?

A Teacher's Information System (also called a Student Management System) includes tables such as:

• key school staff (with contact information)
• homerooms (and homeroom teachers)
• learning disabilities (and accommodations)
• parent/guardian
• family (I saw a students/guardians/families done with CiviCRM)
• grading periods
• assessments (tests, quizzes, homework, ... )
• attendance
• discipline incidents

This would be a database with a number of one to many relationships, and even some (ugh) many to many relationships:

• one homeroom to many students
• one student to many courses
• one teacher to many courses
• one family to many students
• one family to many parents/guardians
• one student to many learning disabilities
• etc.

My biggest focus would be on a teacher who teaches at two or more schools, or a Subject coordinator such as the head math teacher who must track 5 or 6 teachers, and their students. I would limit the information to one academic year.

I've tried building this in Access, but did not succeed. I'm learning PHP and MySQL now, but still it may be beyond my ability.

Open Admin for Schools looks promising.  http://asdtech.wik.is/

Anyone with experience using one of these? Schoolforge http://www.schoolforge.net/education-software/web-based-student-information-systems-sis

Tom

[Donald Lobo]

hey tom:

looks like civicrm has most of the tables that stores information about teachers/students/parents/family

the thing that is completly missing is grading etc, and i'm not sure how much the moodle grading module does.

Might be a good idea for you to take a look and experiment with CiviCRM and see how well it models your case and whats missing

lobo

[Donald Lobo]

there is some discussion for this happening here:

http://groups.drupal.org/node/23292

this might be useful to you. feel free to comment on it

lobo

[vhlede]

Hi Lobo,

I'm curious what is the status of this project/idea?

CiviCRM+Drupal+Moodle integration can be very beneficial for professional organisations that provide continuing education to their members. That is a fast growing market.
Certificates/grading system can be handled by Moodle. However, I believe it is much better if all constituent data is stored in CRM.

Please advise,

Thanks,

Vjeko