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>Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 23:54:47 -0800
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum             <[log in to unmask]>
>From: "J. Scott Payne" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Attendance with FileMaker

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With the attendance component that my system has, teachers select one 
of their courses, that does a search in the database and displays a 
list of the students with the word "Absent" as a hotlink next to 
their name.  By clicking on "Absent"  next to a student's name, that 
person is recorded as absent and they are sent an  official looking 
message to their email account.  This email notification has resulted 
in students hunting down their instructors and profusely apologizing 
for missing class.  Needless to say, you see their bright and shining 
faces the next day.  This has produced some chuckles among TAs and 
faculty.

The equipment check-out system performs the same function by sending 
reminders to faculty that they need to return equipment.  This, 
however, does not produce quite as many chuckles for some reason :-)
-- 
J. Scott Payne
Washington State University
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