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From: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: scrawler@gmail.com
Cc: orgmode list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: students, classes, assignments...
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 06:13:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2h9nefnwz.fsf@andrew.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150901010303.GA6643@bigblessing.localdomain>

It depends a lot on what you want to be able to do. Do you need reports
of what is completed? aggregated grades, etc...

Here is what I do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRUCiF2MwP4

Here is a talk I gave last year on using it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsSMs-4GlT8&list=FLQp2VLAOlvq142YN3JO3y8w

scrawler@gmail.com writes:

> Hey guys,
>
> What's an efficient way to keep track of students, classes, and assignments?
> I'm using org now, but I don't want to admit how badly I'm abusing it to make my *cough* system work.
>
> How about something like this: a file per student with Classwork, Homework, and Assessment headings, maybe checkboxes to indicate completion; A date-tree in a file with the Homework and due dates--something along those lines.
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated. I know a bunch of you are teachers...

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-01 10:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-01  1:03 students, classes, assignments scrawler
2015-09-01 10:13 ` John Kitchin [this message]
2015-09-01 23:34   ` scrawler
2015-09-02  0:48     ` John Kitchin

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