- Online Student Management by Instructors
Does your organization offer classes? Did you know you can allow course instructors to manage some aspects of the attendance online, depending on settings in code tables
This can include:
- Setting Attendance for the students in each class of the course
- Adding new patron to the class if you have previously been their instructor. This also means that a first time student must be added at the box office - to provide some control over student/teacher setup process
- refund student and remove them from the class
- reschedule the class in entirety
- add an extra class
Some of the benefits of this would be:
- Instructors can take attendance at the beginning of the class via a tablet and immediately track it in the database. For example: did the ballet dancers or swimmers in a course come to the class. Or, did the conference participant attend a session?
- Instructors can add late registrants to a course they are teaching (if they taught them before)
- Instructors of personalized sports/fitness sessions can add registrants and use passes to pay for the session (if they have thought them before)
- Instructors can reschedule the class or add an additional one
- Scholarships for Courses/Classes
Did you know that scholarships can be offered to students participating in your classes or courses by using a Pass? This is one use of Passes/Gift Certificates given to the student to pay for all or a portion of their registration.
- Creating a Backup Schedule
The last thing anybody wants is to lose data. Over time, we will be migrating the backup process into a task for the TM servers for a few reasons:
- make it easier to change settings in TM, if you wish more backups during a specific time period (eg. summer season, or subscription renewal)
- make it simpler to have off-machine backups for safety
- allow greater degree of retention periods
- make setting up offsite backups easier
- offload backups from the database server for performance
