We are exploring moving to an online bookstore. In order for the online store to be set-up we’ll need to give the retailer a list of books with corresponding course IDs/Names and Section IDs. We currently do not track courses and books together in this way.

For all Registrar’s Office Users:

Are you tracking books used for courses on course or class records?

If so, how? An attribute, note, other?

How do you deal with courses that use multiple books? Separate entry for each book or all within the same attribute/note?

How do you deal with courses where different section teachers use different books?

Have you found this type of tracking worth the effort?

Thanks in advance!

Rachel Welsh
Webmaster and Director of Data Operations
The Shipley School

Rachel,

 The challenge for us is that not all class sections of a course use the same books, let alone editions.  Tom Phelan came up with a local application that tracks book orders by class section, which we have found to be much more useful.

 When I talked with Blackabud about this, they explained that the Billing Tab could be used for this purpose.  I went through the possibilities with this approach but remembered that billing will be at course level.  If only there was one edition for Huck Finn....

Jerry Hart

Peddie School Director of Stuff

Thanks Jerry. We have the same issue with class sections not using the same books. We may try to use an attribute on a class record instead of course record. The challenge is that there are so few entry fields with attributes. 

Does Peddie use an online book distributor? If so, which fields do you have to give the distributor?

 ~Rachel