UMRA – Teacher File Distribution Management

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UMRA – Student File Distribution Management

Now if you haven’t already, read my original blog post on some of the tips and tricks I’ve learned when creating such a Student File Distribution Management Portal: http://umratips.blogspot.com/2009/08/umra-file-data-distribution-management.html

So I finally finished up the Distribution System for a local school district that wanted to replace Visual CASEL functionally with a UMRA driven solution. Now, below is a screen shot of the final product that is in use in the clients system. As you can see, a very clean system that pulls Teacher Rosters dynamically from a Student Information System, and also links this data in real time within Active Directory. So below I will go over in some detail about each of the sections in this Student File Distribution Management System with UMRA.



Main Menu -
Here is a list of the current Teacher Rosters in the Student Information System, A teach can many one or also rosters from this menu.

Roster Details -
After a Teacher has selected an available year, from the Main Menu, My Rosters Menu, it will display the current rosters for that year.

Period X: File Distribution -
Now you most likely see the other 2 options Student Management, and Assignment Management, we will talk about these tabs later. Keep in mind both those tabs will display options for the selected Teacher Roster. So this tab shows current files that the teacher has uploaded, and are pending to be sent to the students selected. You will notice a hyper link called “Distribute Files” this is the link they will click to send files. Now here is where I placed some extra error logic on this function. I do a check to make sure, the Teacher has at least file in the file upload directory, and to make sure at least one student is selected.

Current Roster Students -
This is sort able, dynamic grid that allows for scrolling, and sorting on any of the header items, and also allows for resizable headers. This is a list of students from the selected roster, and it also display current information from the student information system, with a mix of data from Active Directory also.

So there you have it, a quick overview of my Student File Distribution Management System I build for a local school district, using UMRA as my backend logic tool.