How we'd create a detention system

Possible improvements to the detention system

1. Convinience

   • Search criteria
     • Searches saved for future reference
     • Keywords
   • Home page
   • Total bar for attendence
     • Automatic colour coding
     • Shows simply which students have and haven't completed their allocated detention
       • Allows for macros and pivot tables to be created to show which students haven't completed their detention and so who needs to be seen and put in place
   • Simplicity
     • Symbols
     • Images
     • Key
     • Information tab
     • Colour system
       • Using most used colours which can be simply found
       • Added to whole rows
         • Shows the current state of a student's detention which at the point in time is all that matters

2. Accessability

   • Link
   • Shortcut
     • Saves time
   • Navigation bar
     • Macros

3. Connectivity

   • Link to another system
     • Saves data
       • Spots trends
         • E.G. Bad bahavior in a particular lesson, with a particular teach or at a specific time every week
   • Server
   • Student database

4. Teachers write on a sheet of paper what the child did wrong

   • Statement
   • Teachers involved
   • Witnesses
   • Faculty in which the innodent occured
     • Mistakes undone
   • Detention level
   • Output
     • Letter to parents
       • Valid reasons why their child has a dentention
       • Refusal
         • Child can be taken home in minibus is this occurs

5. Range of macros being added

   • Creates an interactive user interface
   • Simple to use and quick to learn and understand
   • Highly reduce mistakes through completing the same tasks over and over again.
   • Consistently ensure that everything is running correctly
     • They perform every action the same way every time they’re ran
   • Examples
     • Reset option
     • Each year group
     • Every form
     • Each lesson in each year group
     • Automatically save option

6. Pivot tables added

   • Places and found on tabs
     • Named so easy to understand
   • Presents data neatly
     • Suites all as they can be placed in both tables and charts
       • Used to spot trends