Nick's Secret Project

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Nicolas King

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Hello everybody!

I project I've had in mind for ages and have only been working on the past few weeks is the HNZ Gradebook.
The system will hopefully relieve much of the confusion over graduate's NEWT marks, losing track of grades, and having to search through archived grades topics for answers.

All Users
All registered members of HNZ have access to the general functions of the gradebook. You can search for user's and see their marks if they were ever in Hogwarts. Since this system is new most graduates of HNZ have no grades recorded for them and aren't marked as graduates. This is a unfortunate circumstance of creating such a system so late in the site's history.

Students
Students have the ability to add or remove courses from their character's enrolment based on their year level. This means third years will choose their electives in this system and just enrol in the class instead of telling their Head of House, who tells admin, who tells elective professors.
Transfer Students
Transfer students will be enrolled as a first year when they first enter the system (or possibly not as a student at all). If this is the case for you, please contact a member of the staff via personal message and we'll update the record. :)

Professors
Professors are able to see who is enrolled in the classes they are supposed to be teaching. (Note: If a professor only teaches their course from years 1-4 they can still see all 7 years.)
From these class lists, they can assign grades to the students at the end of the term, and remove students from their class entirely.

Staff
Staff members have been given complete access to the system: they can find any user and edit everything from previous grades, to enrolment in classes, to what year level the student is in.
Any mistake that is made in the system can be corrected by pretty much any staff member.

It doesn't look beautiful yet, but I'm still playing with it a bit.
In the future updates to the gradebook may include:[ul][li]Class schedules based on enrolment</LI>[li]Coloured usernames based on house<LI>[li]Preventing first and second years from dropping any classes.[/li][/ul]

You can begin your exploration of the system via this link:
http://hogwartsnewzealand.com/forum/3007900/

To see what a complete gradebook page will look like, please see here: [member]Click![member]

I would also like to think my friend and coding-wizard-extraordinaire, Reid, without whom this code would have taken 8000 times longer to write and get up. :)

Please be sure to follow instructions on pages you load carefully - they were put there for a reason. ^_^

Students: Please enrol in your courses as soon as possible so Professors can start seeing what they're going to be doing.
Professors: Don't assign grades after every lesson - just assign students their final grade in that year level of the course.

Thanks a lot,

~Nick

If you have any question/comments/concerns or notice any errors - just contact me through some means and I'll address whatever it is. :)
 
This is really awesome Nick :D :wub:
 
Way to go Nick! It's awesome and I ♥ it. :) Plus, it's so much easier to keep track of what classes you're charrie's doing, and which electives. :)
 
Fantastic Idea!
Just a Question, for those of us in 2-7 years, are we able to add our previous years grades?
Or is this just a no-go?

(for example, Willow is in 2nd year and under the new system she can add her grades for 2nd year subjects, but will she be able to get her 1st year grades up also?)
 
Right now, let's say it's a no-go because I don't think the staff have the time to go through and update a bajillion grades.
If there's a big outcry for it, I'll try to think of something.
 
Wow. This looks so cool. Well done Nick XD
 
A job well done Nick. ^_^
 
Al we need now is Gaia Avi's and this place will be considered epic beyond all reason.
 
Just a quick reminder:
If you haven't registered your character to their semester one courses, you should do so so that professors can award you grades.
You should also start adding your character's semester two courses. :)
 

Hey Nick,

Whenever I try to add the classes for this character I am greeted with
This said:
Oops! While this user is, indeed, in our database - they don't appear to be a current student of HNZ, or a student who has graduated since this system came in to effect. Sorry]
Yeah, This character is clearly a student at the school. I don't know if it's cause I'm doing something wrong or something.
I dunno what to do.
 
If your character transferred, you were supposed to prod staff to update your gradebook entry (as stated in the first post).
Regardless, your character has been added to the fourth year thingy. :)
 
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