Ghent University

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Ghent University

• Workshop ECTS
• July 6-7, 2006

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Developing ECTS Software

• Bruno Lowagie
• Projectleader IT
• ICT Department

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Scope

• Allocation of ECTS credits
• Creating the Information Package
• Forms application / LA / ToR
• Information Technology

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Before 1998

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New Project 1998

• 2 developers
• Mario Maccarini
• Bruno Lowagie

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After this project was done

• Good knowledge of the database
• ? Creation Information Package
• All grades in one central database
• ? ECTS Grading Scale

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Information Package

• Documents for the Web
• iText HTML and PDF
• (a by-product of the previous project)

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Book

• iText in Action
• ISBN 1932394796
• November 2006
• Manning Publications

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Technological University of Foobar

• A fictive University
• An imaginary employee
• Real-World Documents

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Creating a Flyer

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Courses/Credits

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The resulting PDF

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The Data (database or XML)

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The resulting PDF

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Forms

• Learning Agreement
• Transcript of Records

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Online Form

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Submit to Server

• HTML submit
• FDF submit
• XFDF submit
• PDF submit

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Example XFDF submit

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Transcript ofRecords

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Form Filling with iText(one possible way to do
it)

• Retrieve data from XFDF
• Merge XFDF and PDF
• Fill in ToR in English, French,

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Grading scale

• What to fill in?
• F, FX

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The Grading Scale

• No secrets,
• Just numbers.
• A lot of them!

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DEMO

• Calculating with MS EXCEL

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The Grading Scale

• Do some calculations

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The Grading Scale

• Make
• a little graph

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Statistics

• Normal Distribution
• vs.
• Discreet Values

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DEMO

• Normal Distribution
• vs.
• Discrete Values

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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

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Example Foreign Students

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ExampleConversionTable

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Questions?