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Chapter 3 Classes – Class Roster 53
Creating and Maintaining a Class Roster
As described earlier, Class Rosters can be developed locally as part of the
Class definition, or they can be developed outside PRS and imported into the
Class definition. A Roster associated with a Class definition can be maintained
using the Add Name and Delete Name Function Buttons. Rosters developed
using third part CMS applications are usually maintained in the application
and reimported into the Class definition.
A somewhat unique situation exists when a Class Roster is developed using
the Web-based PRS Registration Application described in Chapter Seven. The
Web-based PRS Registration Application can be set up so that students
required to buy a PRS Transmitter for one or more classes can register online
for those classes. The resulting Roster, in addition to being managed online in
the Admin portion of the PRS Registration application, can be downloaded to
the PRS/Roster directory for import into a Class definition. Conversely, a
Roster developed locally in PRS for a Class definition using the Add Names
function can be imported into the PRS Web Registration Application. The
registration files created by PRS and the PRS Web Registration Application
are stored separately. Online registrations are maintained in a database on the
PRS Registration Application Web site. Rosters created in PRS using the Add
Names function and downloaded Rosters are stored and maintained in the
PRS/Roster directory on the computer. If you want to keep individual Rosters
synchronized, you should make all changes at one location and download or
import to the other location.
Roster Display Mode
During a Session, the Class Roster can be displayed in one of two ways in the
Response Area below each Question and its Response Choices. The Roster
can be displayed in a Response Grid, or as an Attendee List.
A Response Grid is made up of individual Response Boxes that are arranged
in a grid of rows and columns. When a student transmits a Response to a
Question, confirmation of a received signal in the form of the student's
Transmitter ID number or his name (this identification selection is made in
the Response Window Defaults dialog of the New Class definition) is
displayed in a Response Box in the Response Grid. When a Response Map
(the next tab) has been set up as part of the New Class definition, each
student will have an assigned Response Box—a permanent location—in the
Response Grid, where that confirmation of transmission and receipt of his or
her Responses will always appear.
The Attendee List (the list of everyone from the Class Roster who is in
attendance during the Session) is also displayed in the Response Area below
each Question and its Response Choices. As each student transmits his