were happy with it. Some were not. Some parents did have their slots
"accidently" changed by others- and I can see the revision history so I know
that one parent in particular was responsible for most of these problems(for
whatever reason- on purpose, by accident, or ??)
The biggest problems we had were with parents who don't read the online (and
emailed) school newsletters and were unaware of the change and the parents
who decided not to bother try to do it online and called in to the office to
ask the office staff to do it for them. Not sure what to do about that.
We'll be talking about it over the next week or so to see what can be/needs
to be changed.
But on the positive side- I got several emails from parents thanking me for
doing this, saving the gas and time for them to come in to sign up and for
trying to "go green" and eliminate some of the paper generated in the past.
Maureen Tumenas
Berkshire Country Day School
Lenox, MA
-----Original Message-----
From: A forum for independent school educators
[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Cohen Steven
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 10:31 AM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: Parent/Teacher conference calendars?
If you use a wiki for this you at least can check the history of a
page and recover if need be.
we don't worry about parents, but impulsive students. so we don't
publish the link to the conferences where students can see it.
On Dec 3, 2008, at 12:39 PM, Keith E Gatling wrote:
> Well, I don't know that it *has* happened, but it's just one of those
> questions I've been sort of trained to ask when it comes to designing
> "self-serve" systems.
>
> But let me rephrase the question: Are there any protections there to
> prevent
> the Smiths, or anyone else, from *accidentally* deleting or writing
> over
> appointments that the Joneses have already made? And if so, is this
> done in
> such a way that the Joneses themselves can change their mind, and
> delete an
> appointment that they've already made?
>
> Also, what happens if two families try to sign up for the same
> timeslot at
> the same time? Is there some mechanism to prevent two people from
> accessing
> the same cell simultaneously?
>
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Peter Gow <pgow@bcdschool.org> wrote:
>
>> A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
>> writes:
>>> So what is there to prevent the Smiths from deleting appointments
>>> the
>>> Jones
>>> have made and putting themselves in those slots instead?
>> Have to say this is a very disheartening question. Are there
>> schools at
>> which the social contract is so broken down that this might happen?
>> Aaarrrggghh...
>>
>> Peter Gow, Director of College Counseling and Special Programs
>> Beaver Country Day School
>> 791 Hammond Street
>> Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
>> www.bcdschool.org
>> Tel. 617-738-2755
>> FAX 617-738-2701
>> Skype: petergow3
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