Groups Table

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Sections Overview

Sections are used to manage two important aspects of a virtual school.  In a virtual school, an unlimited number of students may take any online course at anytime. However, the teacher of records is still responsible for grade student work and assign final grades.  Too many students in a course can overwhelm any online teacher, especially as some organizations have a requirement for the student to have virtual, synchronous lessons or for the teacher to hold office hours. 

Sections are also used to create private groups of teachers and students in Moodle.  PEMS allows proctors to assist in monitoring student progress, so it is critical that proctors only view specific students Moodle.  The sections table helps to accomplish this objective.

Data Relationships

Each curriculum record can have multiple sections.groups, one Eachgroup sectionlinked ofto theeach curriculum record is createdfro for a particularevery location (homeroom).  A location will have multiple student grade levels, any combination of K through 12 students, so the sections are not restricted to specific grade level.

The sectionsgroups are related to the homeroom.  A sectiongroup can have only one homeroom.

Students are of course related to sectionsmultiple groups and toonly one homeroom.  Note there is no direct relationship between students, proctors, and Teachers, the relationship is created only through the sectiongroup record.

As a location or Homeroom(Homeroom) is allowed multiple proctors, multiple proctors can be related to the corresponding section.group.  And since there are multiple  Moodle Courses their students will be taking, proctors are also related to different sections. There is a many to many relationship between proctors and sections.sections, because proctors review multiple courses.

The proctor does not fulfill the regulatory requirements of the teacher of record. There can be only one teacher of record for any class as student takes, so there is only one teacher of record for a section.group.  The teacher of record may be related to multiple sectionsgroups (for other classes the teacher teaches.teaches).  The teacher  of record is not related to the curriculum record, the teacher is only related to the sectiongroup record.  In relating the teacher to the sectiongroup record, SIS can better manage the reporting on which specific students took the course under what teacher.

Fields

SectionGroup Name - Concatenate the Homeroom and Moodle Course ID.

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