So… I was up until 3:30 last night writing a piece of code for our office staff. The code allows Cynthia and Luwana to automatically file a database report on whose attendance was not scanned that day. It sends an email to those teachers and sends an email by band to an administrator. It’s not that sophisticated yet, but I’m pleased with it as a first draft.

I still have to build in the search page which will allow to search on period scanning / teacher scanning. And I would love to take a crack at rewriting the "send to administrator" function, because I realize now that it would be better — and probably not that hard to code — to have the report send deliberately, not automatically, but that’s a function that may need user input.

This whole thing is a little more big-brothery than I like to make tech tools, but honestly, I would like to see us do a better job of tracking our at-risk students. (What school wouldn’t, right?) There are things we can do on the student end, but there are some things we need to do on the teacher end too. This is one of them.

And hey, it’s fun to stretch those programming muscles mid-year anyway.

Oh… and if anyone wants to take a look at the PHP code, let me know.