Re: Plethora of gradebooks, grade change audit.

[Bill Ries-Knight <brk@slip.net>]

Matt,
All other items are straight forward, and we appreciate the response.  However, there
is a good reason for the security on grade changes.

My wife is adamant that She (teacher) be the only one to set/change grades.  SOME
administrators are hesitant to give FAILING grades, other individuals with the
authority may have other reasons to change grades.  As the teacher, it is her
responsibility to prove those grades, and be able to explain it for a full 10 years.
Her concern was being able to prove an electronic grade was changed WITHOUT her
knowledge or consent.

Lawyers love to see teachers as a scapegoat for administative irregularities.  They
don't have good legal backup usually.

BILL

> 3.  ALL transactions should include a full audit trail and require memo notation
> for ANY changes.

Transaction dates i agree should be stored in the gradebook database,
but only certain modifications to the database should require "memo
notification."  Maybe, if someone tries to delete all the students out
of the database, then yes, that should require some sort of check.
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