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Description
CAL is a language center management system that I built with Joseph Pereira (jper...@gmail.com) when we were studying Computer Science at Champlain College. This application was designed to reduce the amount of paper that was being used for everyday managerial tasks. By providing students with a web-based system to use, we are able to track student progress in a centralized location, allowing teachers, monitors, and administrators to access their information.Students log into the system to start their language center sessions. They then have access to the history of their previous sessions, which allows them to quickly assess how many visits they have accumulated, as well as which exercises were completed.
Students enter the list of exercises completed using the 'My Session' page.
Monitors have the ability to validate or invalidate student sessions, and they are also able to determine how long a student has been using the system. They also have the ability to write down notes along with each student session, and they can send alert messages, which is a quick and discreet way of notifying students of a misconduct.
Monitors are able to oversee how students are progressing with their sessions.
Upon student completion, the monitor may add notes to the student session record.
The monitor then has the choice to either credit the session to the student, or not.
Teachers can easily determine how students have been progressing, as well as which exercises they have completed. This information can be organized by course section, faciliating the task of gathering data about a particular class.
The teacher's student list offers statistics like how many sessions a student has completed, and how many times they have been alerted.
Administrators have access to a wealth of features, allowing them to create, delete, and update courses, course sections, exercises, computers, terms, monitors, teachers, students, student sessions, and much more. They also have access to various reports and statistics. For example, one particular feature allows them to see during which hours students visit - with a configurable date range. Another report allows administrators to see how students are performing, per course section.
Administrators are able to add, update, and disable user accounts.
The weekly statistics page reveals student attendance per hour.
Press
- Making the Paper Disappear, written by Profweb.