The idea behind this project comes from an old boss and mentor, Joe. Together, Joe and I built a system, later called Learning Management Systems for the school that we were both working at. In fact, he hired me originally to help in this project, and my employment grew from there.
The project started as a way for students to have all their classes listed and be able to interact with them. For parents to be able to track progress for their students and for teachers to manage their students and classes. When I first started the system was robust enough that it was able to handle classes and a lot of admin stuff, but it was messy and the DB was set up awfully.
For the next 7 years of so, I spent refining that system. What started as an LMS grew into something bigger. Once the minor details such as enrollment, transcripts, etc. were done, we concentrated on a new way to assess students. This was where the first idea of a formative-based assessment system was born, at least in my mind. The idea behind this system would be to give clear assessment to all students that were:
- Formative not Summative
- Descriptive, not boiled down to a single grade
- Based on approved Scope and Sequence (something like standards)
We got very close to finishing this. For a few years we had this working. Alas, all good things have to come to an end, and the new head of school opted for something more robust. This project is a culmination of everything that I've learned about LMS's, Formative Assessment, and Schools.
Come see the GitHub Repo!
Some Working Information
I'm at the point where some testing can happen for different "roles" of people. As such I've created a few user account to login and test. These are:
- staff@kalinec.net, password: staff
- faculty@kalinec.net, password: faculty
- student@kalinec.net, password: student
- parent@kalinec.net, password: parent
- coach@kalinec.net, password: coach
I'll give more info as I develop it.