Ontario Report Card, Grades 1-8

It's been an interesting month as everyone came to grips with the first report using the Ontario Report Card, Grades 1-8 and, in particular, the Electronic Report Card. There were a couple of real gems posted on the First Class system. Beyond that, the CAITs and myself, had a chuckle as the process happened. It was a way to maintain sanity! Some of the things we noted (and can post publically) appear below.

DISK FULL?
At the workshop, it was stressed over and over that two backups should be made after each editing session. Just in case. Well, if two are good, then three must be better. And four must be approaching utopia. After all, we can always go back a generation or two! But there are limits to good things. Our empirical testing indicates that, for the first reporting period, the magical number is 19 backups before you get a disk full message!

VIRUSES?
You had to figure that viruses would enter into the picture somewhere along the line. We weren't disappointed. When the first one turned up, the predictable finger pointing began. Fingers were pointed at teachers, students, CAITs, the Ministry (did anybody actually virus scan the original CD-ROM?) A whole lot of scans later and we're clean. Or are we? Remember the opening comments about a system? Dependent components can share bad things in addition to good things!

CAITs
Can Anyone Interpret This?
They were so excited, in the beginning. This would be the year that they weren't up to all hours and on weekends doing their report cards. Instead, they were up to all hours and on weekends helping with everyone else's report cards.

EVEN NATURE DIDN'T HELP
While corrupted datafiles appeared periodically throughout the process, they were fairly easily recovered. Generally, they happened once in a blue moon and it took a few minutes to recover any corrupted file. But, what happens when Mother Nature gets involved? Worst case was with East Mersea Public School AND Gore Hill Public School who both got hit with a power outage AT THE SAME TIME.

WHAT'S ON THAT DISK?
A secretary at a school accidently exported a new teacher's mer file as an FP file. I couldn't get it to do anything so I opened it up in WP as a text file, this is what Ifound. The teacher never worked with the file and the disc was new..Go Figure. What R they doing at MEDIA X hohohoho

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And just when you figure you've got it all figured out, a piece of wisdom crosses your path...
THE SNAFU EQUATIONS:
1. Given any problem containing 'n' equations, there will always be 'n+l' unknowns.
2. An object or bit of information most needed will be the least available.
3. Once you have exhausted all possibilities and fail, there will be one solution, simple and obvious, highly visible to everyone else.
4. Badness comes in waves.}