Workshop Curricula review Ghent University Workshop Tempus Curricula Review October 2005
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
Workshop Curricula review Developing ECTS Software Bruno Lowagie Software Architect DICT
Workshop Curricula review Before 1998 ADMINISTRATIVE APPLICATIONS CURRICULUM SOFTWARE ACADEMIC APPLICATION CC++CLIPPER CSAFSAFSA/Ex.Secr/teacher
Workshop Curricula review teacher secr. FSA operator deliberation CSA
Workshop Curricula review New Project developers: Mario Maccarini Bruno Lowagie
Workshop Curricula review teacher secr. FSA developer deliberation CSA
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
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
Workshop Curricula review What is PDF? What is iText?
Workshop Curricula review Some Document Content
Workshop Curricula review DEMO HTML vs. PDF
Workshop Curricula review Put in a PDF document
Workshop Curricula review Credits Allocation Visualizing the Study Programme
Workshop Curricula review The data (database or XML)
Workshop Curricula review DEMO Study Programme Tables
Workshop Curricula review The resulting PDF
Workshop Curricula review Information Package Making Course Descriptions
Workshop Curricula review The Data (database or XML)
Workshop Curricula review DEMO Course Descriptions
Workshop Curricula review The resulting PDF
Workshop Curricula review Forms Application Form Learning Agreement Transcript of Records
Workshop Curricula review Online Form
Workshop Curricula review Submit to Server HTML submit FDF submit XFDF submit PDF submit
Workshop Curricula review Example XFDF submit
Workshop Curricula review Transcript of Records
Workshop Curricula review DEMO Retrieve data from XFDF Merge XFDF and PDF Fill in ToR in English, French,…
Workshop Curricula review Grading scale What to fill in? F, FX ABCDE 10%25%30%25%10%
Workshop Curricula review Statistics Normal Distribution vs. Discrete Values
Workshop Curricula review The Grading Scale No secrets, Just numbers. A lot of them!
Workshop Curricula review DEMO Calculating with MS EXCEL
Workshop Curricula review The Grading Scale Do some calculations:
Workshop Curricula review The Grading Scale Make a little graph:
Workshop Curricula review DEMO Normal Distribution vs. Discrete Values
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
Workshop Curricula review Example Foreign Students
Workshop Curricula review Example Conversion Table
Workshop Curricula review Questions?
Workshop Curricula review