1. Workshop Curricula review Ghent University Workshop Tempus Curricula Review 19-21 October 2005

2. Workshop Curricula review Key targets of the project 1.Allocation of ECTS credits 2.Creating the Information Package 3.Forms: application / LA / ToR 4.Information Technology

3. Workshop Curricula review Developing ECTS Software Bruno Lowagie Software Architect DICT

4. Workshop Curricula review Before 1998 ADMINISTRATIVE APPLICATIONS CURRICULUM SOFTWARE ACADEMIC APPLICATION CC++CLIPPER CSAFSAFSA/Ex.Secr/teacher

5. Workshop Curricula review teacher secr. FSA operator deliberation CSA

6. Workshop Curricula review New Project 1998 2 developers: Mario Maccarini Bruno Lowagie

7. Workshop Curricula review teacher secr. FSA developer deliberation CSA

8. Workshop Curricula review After this project was done: Good knowledge of the database:  Creation Information Package All grades in one central database:  ECTS Grading Scale

9. Workshop Curricula review Open Source / Free Software iText: creation of PDF using JAVA Adopted by the industry: IBM, MacroMedia, JasperReports,… Search Google: number 1 Book: iText in Action

10. Workshop Curricula review What is PDF? What is iText?

11. Workshop Curricula review Some Document Content

12. Workshop Curricula review DEMO HTML vs. PDF

13. Workshop Curricula review Put in a PDF document

14. Workshop Curricula review Credits Allocation Visualizing the Study Programme

15. Workshop Curricula review The data (database or XML)

16. Workshop Curricula review DEMO Study Programme Tables

17. Workshop Curricula review The resulting PDF

18. Workshop Curricula review Information Package Making Course Descriptions

19. Workshop Curricula review The Data (database or XML)

20. Workshop Curricula review DEMO Course Descriptions

21. Workshop Curricula review The resulting PDF

22. Workshop Curricula review Forms Application Form Learning Agreement Transcript of Records

23. Workshop Curricula review Online Form

24. Workshop Curricula review Submit to Server HTML submit FDF submit XFDF submit PDF submit

25. Workshop Curricula review Example XFDF submit

26. Workshop Curricula review Transcript of Records

27. Workshop Curricula review DEMO Retrieve data from XFDF Merge XFDF and PDF Fill in ToR in English, French,…

28. Workshop Curricula review Grading scale What to fill in? F, FX ABCDE 10%25%30%25%10%

29. Workshop Curricula review Statistics Normal Distribution vs. Discrete Values

30. Workshop Curricula review The Grading Scale No secrets, Just numbers. A lot of them!

31. Workshop Curricula review DEMO Calculating with MS EXCEL

32. Workshop Curricula review The Grading Scale Do some calculations:

33. Workshop Curricula review The Grading Scale Make a little graph:

34. Workshop Curricula review DEMO Normal Distribution vs. Discrete Values

35. Workshop Curricula review Types of Students UGent students studying at UGent automatic calculation of ECTS grade Foreign students studying at UGent automatic or manual if nra UGent students studying abroad conversion tables

36. Workshop Curricula review Example Foreign Students

37. Workshop Curricula review Example Conversion Table

38. Workshop Curricula review Questions?

39. Workshop Curricula review