CanDo08
 A Web-Based, Freely-Distributed
Competency Teaching &Tracking System
SchoolTool® is a project and trademark of The Shuttleworth Foundation.
CanDo is a module of SchoolTool, and a project of the Arlington Public Schools in Arlington, Virginia.  
 

 

  

CanDo STUDENT COMPETENCY TRACKER

CanDo is a web-based, skill tracking application, developed by Virginia State teachers and students for teachers and students everywhere! CanDo is built into SchoolTool, a powerful suite of free software that helps schools manage their operations. Click here to obtain a pdf of the current CanDo-SchoolTool brochure.

CanDo and SchoolTool can be downloaded and used for free, but must be run on a web server. Setting-up CanDo/SchoolTool is probably far easier than you think, either on a computer dedicated to the purpose, or on a server leased from a web hosting company for as little as $30 per month. To log onto a demo version of CanDo, click "TRY CanDo" on the lefthand menu. To learn about how to set-up your own CanDo/SchoolTool server, click "SETUP CanDo" on the lefthand menu.

Project Description

CanDo is a web-based, freely-distributed skills tracking program developed by teachers and students in Arlington, Virginia. It was written to help teachers track which skills their students are acquiring in their classes and at what level of competency. CanDo automatically reports skill-levels for students and the class, and issues an official Student Competency Record (SCR) for each student.

Because CanDo is a web-based application, teachers and students may access the program using secure logins from anywhere they have internet access and the Mozilla Firefox web browser (a free download at www.mozilla.org).

Contributors

Arlington County Public Schools, Office of Career & Technical Education
(CanDo05 -- $4,500; CanDo06 -- $24,000; CanDo07 -- $45,000; CanDo08 -- $10,000)
Michael R. Morton - Director; Kris Martini - Supervisor, Trade & Industrial Education

Virginia Department of Career & Technical Education
(CanDo06 -- $35,000; CanDo07 -- $40,000; CanDo08 -- $15,000)
Elizabeth M. Russell, Virginia State CTE Director

SchoolTool -- CanDo's Open-Source School Software Parent Project
(CanDo07 -- $10,000)
Tom Hoffman, Project Director

Center for Innovative Communities (CanDo04 -- $15,000)

  

Arlington Career Center
816 S. Walter Reed Dr.
Arlington, VA 22204
Tel.: (703) 228-5800
Fax: (703) 228-5815