Quick schedule and quick find (quick student schedule retrieval)

As per Adam Sentz' recommendation, this request is for a feature that would allow staff to quickly locate a student from the student's populi page. Rather than displaying a list of courses, it would be great if it could generate a weekly calendar-esque visual display of the student's classes as they fall in the week.

As it is, if I need to locate a student on a Wednesday around 1 PM, I have to export the student's schedule to a PDF, look for each course that has a Wednesday occurrence, and look to see if any of those Wednesday classes actually meet during 1 PM.

I would like to be able to click a "quick schedule" button and visually see all of the student's classes and when they meet. I would click the "quick schedule" button, see the student does not have class at 1 PM on Wednesday, and then call the Dean of Students to contact the student at the dorms (or, if the student was in class, I would know where to go). Class name, instructor, and room number would be handy for this.

If we want to make this really slick, we could have a "quick find" button that would just pop up either the student's supposed location before, during, and after that moment, or indicate that the student does not have a scheduled class at that time.

Even further, like Star Trek further, we could tie the course's attendance record into the "quick schedule" or "quick find" features so we would be able to tell whether they are actually at their scheduled class, or if we need to look elsewhere. Ok, maybe that's a little too "big brother" but in the moment it would sure be assuring that our students are findable. This attendance record tie-in could help during fire drills, or real emergencies. There could be an instance where one missing person could reveal that an entire class is not accounted for. That's a little heavy, sorry.

I think this request is different from Traci Morris' "Appearance of Student Course Schedule" request at

http://support.populiweb.com/entries/220896-appearance-of-student-course-schedule

and is complementary to Dennis Hixson's "Email all of a student's instructors" request at

http://support.populiweb.com/entries/241621-email-all-of-a-student-s-instructors

I suspect many Populi colleges are small and personable and could use a feature like this in the case of an emergency or other urgent situations.

Thanks!

Jeremiah Miller September 16, 2010 17:34

Hi Populi team, is this something you are considering at the moment? This would be a huge improvement, especially during the drop-add period at the beginning of the semester.

Robert's suggestions are perfect. We'd love to see them implemented! (even the Star Trek feature, although I'd be happy with the first two).

Bobby Mercer January 27, 2015 18:26

Schedules:

We schedule some campus events based on the number of students on campus at a given time. Presently, I can't secure that number unless I do it manually. How many students (who are they and where are they) are on campus on Monday night, for example. To get this info, I currently need to go into each class offered, print/export the roster, then compile the info. It would be great if there was a way to get this info in a report or on screen, with a filter that would let me set the time window and the campus (main campus, Mondays between 4 pm and 9 pm). The results would give me a list of students that are enrolled within the window (4-9) and the classes they are in during the window, etc.

Mike Krauss April 22, 2016 00:54

This would be great for us too. I often have to do the same thing @Robert.

Quick schedule and quick find (quick student schedule retrieval)

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