Schools and classes

See also

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Schools have one or more teachers that organise contests for that pupils of that school. A teacher is associated to a single school. For all practical purposes, the application makes no distinction between different teachers of the same school. Information added by one teacher can be seen and edited by every other teacher of that same school.

A teacher is responsible for a number of classes. A class belongs to a single school and a single year¹. Classes have a number of registered pupils. A pupil can belong to at most one class in a given year.

Classes must be recreated every year - but class names can be copied from previous years. The application enforces no relation between e.g. class “5ecoB” of 2023–2024 and “5ecoB” of 2024–2025. In particular this means that every year, every pupil needs to be registered anew by a teacher (which might be different from last year, or even from a different school).

The class to which a pupil belongs² determines the contest to which they are allowed to take part - and therefore also (indirectly) the level at which they participate. However, it remains possible to register a pupil from one class to be able to participate at another level than the rest of their class³.

Comments

In version 1 schools were uploaded from a national database by an organiser. Teachers then had to indicate to which school they belonged. This had some disadvantages

• Schools were often mentioned more than once in the database and teachers had to chose correctly. In practice, as long as teachers from the same school made the same choice, this was not really a problem
• Each year the database had to be uploaded anew and teachers had to register anew.
• Compare to the size of the database, only a very very small number of schools were actually taking part in Bebras

Also, the fact that every school/teacher association had to be renewed every year was not always ideal.

• Teachers could not prepare contests for the coming school year before the organizers changed the ‘current year’ in the database
• Once the ‘current year’ was changed, teachers could no longer review results from the previous year

Nice-to-haves?

• Allow the organiser to add school names and addresses in bulk from a spreadsheet. E.g., from a country’s official list of schools
• Years are added by an organiser.

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