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AlyceBrady edited this page Jul 18, 2012 · 2 revisions

Welcome to the ramp wiki!

This repository currently represents an initial prototype version of RAMP (Record and Activity Management Program) and SMART (Software for Managing Academic Records and Transcripts), built on top of Ramp.

RAMP

Ramp is a program that supports the easy creation of simple activity files (lists of grouped activities with descriptions), provides a mechanism for creating database views (called "table settings") that is meant to be accessible to domain experts (as opposed to database experts), and provides software for populating, viewing, and updating database tables through the table settings. For any database table for which a table setting has been defined, Ramp supports:

  • A search mechanism for finding records based on values in fields

  • A table view for viewing a set of table records with column headings

  • A list view for viewing table records (often just a defined subset of columns, useful for selecting a single record from a search that yielded multiple results)

  • A single-record view for viewing records in their entirety, modifying them, or adding new records to the table; single-record views may also contain links to other, related tables or records if the relationships are defined in the table setting

Ramp is set up to work with tables defined in a MySQL database, using the Zend Framework.

SMART

SMART currently consists of a set of activity files and table settings to support managing academic records in three broad categories:

  • Curriculum records dealing with courses of study (e.g., undergraduate mathematics), courses or modules (e.g., Calculus I), and their individual offerings (e.g., the Spring 2012 offering of Calculus I)

  • Instructor records (e.g., contract start/end dates, courses or modules taught)

  • Student records (e.g., courses of study, test scores, enrollment history)

In time, the plan is to separate Ramp and Smart into separate projects, and to expand Smart to include customized activities specific to the academic records domain (as opposed to the more general-purpose activities supported by Ramp).

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