isaac@goanna.oz (Isaac Balbin) (04/20/88)
[ I apologise for the choice of newsgroups (wizards), I got NO reply from comp.sources.wanted; maybe the high signal to noise ratio means lots don't read it? I can't believe that no such programs exist in the whole wide world] We in the Department of Computer Science, at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, in Australia, are currently looking for software suitable for the inputing, maintenance, manipulation and report writing of student's marks. I feel confident that there are a few good programs around somewhere which roughly meet our need. Our requirements are that it run under Unix (BSD preferably), be screen based (curses) and have the ability to take as initial input an ascii file (in some fixed format, this could obviously be massaged) containing the names and student enrolment numbers of students taking a particular subject. It should be possibly to assess the student on a number of tests/practical exercises and the like. It should be able to handle weighting for each component comprising the final mark for that subject. It should be able to give some graphs - simple ones or postscript based - depicting the spread of the marks for all students. One should be able to standardise etc. If a student is not performing well, it would be nice to get a summary of that students performance for all subjects. If you have something which approximates these functions, and you would not mind another institution using it for strictly educational purposes, could you be kind enough to MAIL me (or post) details. If there are many requests for a summary, I will summarise to the net. Thanks, in advance, Isaac Balbin. Note isaac NOT issac ----------------- UUCP: ...!uunet!goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au!isaac ARPA: isaac%goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au@uunet.uu.net CSNET: isaac%goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au@australia