Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: waeup.kofa
Version: 1.3.2
Summary: A student online information and  registration portal
Home-page: http://www.waeup.org/
Author: The WAeUP team.
Author-email: UNKNOWN
License: GPL
Description: What is WAeUP.Kofa ?
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        Kofa means 'entrance' or 'portal' in Hausa language.
        
        WAeUP.Kofa is a multifunctional, open source, web based student
        management system to provide transparent and comprehensive
        information about application and study progress. The system
        controls all kinds of application and student registration processes
        at large schools and universities in Nigeria. It is a generic system
        which can be deployed by, and is useful to most universities,
        colleges or schools wordlwide.
        
        WAeUP.Kofa is the flagship of the West African eUniversity Project
        (WAeUP). See http://www.waeup.org to learn more about WAeUP.
        
        WAeUP.Kofa is really an allrounder. The best way to briefly describe
        its functionality, is to explain what the software can *not* do for
        you, rather than trying to describe all its features in just a few
        words. Kofa is primarily not an e-learning system, although, it has
        some basic content management features which can be used by
        lecturers to disseminate course material. Kofa is also not a
        scheduler which generates lesson plans or timetables for lecturers
        or students. Although students register their courses with Kofa and
        can see or print course lists for each academic session, so far,
        courses do not contain information, when or where they take place.
        However, due to the modular design of Kofa, a scheduler or room
        planner could be easily added.
        
        WAeUP.Kofa is divided into sections. Each section has its own folder
        in Kofa's `object database`. When starting Kofa in debug mode::
        
          $ ./bin/kofactl debug
        
        we can use simple Python expression to view the first two levels of
        the database structure::
        
          >>> list(root.keys())
          [u'app']
          >>> list(root['app'].keys())
          [u'accesscodes', u'applicants', u'configuration', u'datacenter',
           u'documents', u'faculties', u'hostels', u'mandates', u'reports',
           u'students', u'users']
        
        
        The section/folder structure can be figured as follows::
        
          root (Database Root)
          |
          +---> app (University)
                |
                +---> faculties (Academic Section)
                |
                +---> students (Students Section)
                |
                +---> applicants (Aplicants Section)
                |
                +---> documents (Documents Section)
                |
                +---> hostels (Accommodation Section)
                |
                +---> accesscodes (Access Codes Section)
                |
                +---> configuration (Configuration Section)
                |
                +---> users (Officers)
                |
                +---> datacenter (Data Center)
                |
                +---> mandates (Mandates)
                |
                +---> reports (Reports)
        
        The user handbook follows this organizational structure and adds
        further chapters where needed. Also installation instructions and
        basic information about customization can be found there.
        
        You can also find latest docs at https://kofa-doc.waeup.org/
        
        
        Changes
        *******
        
        1.3.2 (2015-09-14)
        ==================
        
        * Add public page to check application status without password.
        
        * Fix department breakdown of student statistics.
        
        * Enable purging of applicants containers.
        
        * Enable pre-filling of applicants containers with empty
          application records which are used during self-registration
          to avoid excessive growth of the Data.fs.
        
        * Do only allow one running export job.
        
        * Add switch to disable all exports.
        
        * Enable import of list-of-choices fields.
        
        * Include 'end day' when searching for payments in a given period.
        
        * Do not create special application payment tickets with zero amount.
        
        * Remove manual clearance lock. Replace `clearance_locked` field by
          property attribute.
        
        * Make student email field required.
        
        * Rename application workflow transitions and remove forbidden transitions.
        
        * Rename 'application section' for the sake of consistency.
        
        * Rename student views which are not layout-aware and thus not pages.
        
        * Register KofaSourceOrderedMultiSelectWidget for IterableSource and
          KofaSourceOrderedMultiSelectWidget for IVocabularyTokenized.
        
        * Implement session-specific course registration deadline and
          late registration payment.
        
        * Remove quite old bug in `doImport`: Replace empty strings *and* lists with
          ignore-markers in update *and* create mode.
        
        * Add StudentUnpaidPaymentExporter to export only unpaid tickets.
          This exporter is designed for finding and finally purging outdated
          payment ticket.
        
        * Remove deprecated xml importer and exporter components.
        
        * Rearrange datacenter upload page. Provide modal windows to view all
          processors and sources and vocabularies.
        
        * Reorganize doctests. Remove deprecated doctests.
        
        * Enable temporary suspension of officer accounts. Plugins must be
          updated after restart.
        
        * Rename 'Portal Users' 'Officers'.
        
        * Add link 'Kofa Docs for this page' at the end of the content box
          which refers to the corresponding section of the
          `Kofa Documentation <http://kofa-doc.waeup.org>`_.
        
        * Filter students by current level in reports.
        
        * Add `StudentsUtils.increaseMatricInteger` method which allows to use various
          matric number counters when computing the matric number.
        
        * Bypass school fee payment activation code creation if student is allowed
          to proceed to next session.
        
        * Convert `level` into a schema field to be consistent with the documentation.
        
        * Rename classes `StudentPaymentsExporter` and `BedTicketsExporter` to be
          in accordance with other exporter names.
        
        * Add `ReportsOfficer` and `ReportsManager` roles with corresponding
          permissions.
        
        * Do not automatically allow import managers to import user data.
        
        * Skip empty rows produced by spreadsheet software.
        
        * Add components to  configure a student export jobs in faculties.
        
        * `StudentOnlinePaymentProcessor` : Raise `DuplicationError` if payment
          (in state ``paid``) with same `p_session` and `p_category` exists.
        
        * Add new payment state ``waived``. This state can only be set by import
          and is only used for the payments overview exporter to
          mark sessions with waived fees.
        
        * Add exporter methods and export page to filter student data exports 
          by entering a list of student ids.
        
        * Student statistic can now be broken down by faculties or by departments.
        
        * Check if `p_id` exists in payments catalog when importing payment tickets in
          create mode.
        
        
        1.3.1 (2015-01-14)
        ==================
        
        * 1.3 was a brown bag release. Fix uploaded files.
        
        
        1.3 (2015-01-13)
        ================
        
        * Add documents package.
        
        * Do not compare ResultEntry objects but their attributes.
        
        * Modify getWidgetsData so that we always get the same error format.
        
        * Validate all codes in university.
        
        * Catch traceback when creating an application slip with a corrupted
          image file.
        
        * Remove deprecated HTML and REST widgets and use html2dict and rest2dict
          instead.
        
        * UserProcessor: Check if imported roles do exist in the portal.
        
        * Enable localization of batch processing modules.
        
        * Hide 'Create students' button. Only user admin can see this button.
        
        * Add application_slip_notice field to ApplicantsContainer.
        
        * Remove 'Size' column from logfiles table.
        
        * Add permission, page and button to mass-clear all students in a department.
        
        * Hide export download button 24 hours after file generation.
        
        * Add helper to allow `meminfo` checks for cached memory, etc.
        
        * Allow external checks of system load before performing expensive
          actions.
        
        * Add new dependency: `psutil` (required to check system state).
        
        * Show flash message on general search page for the academic section.
        
        * Fix CertificateCourseProcessor. Mandatory is not a required field
          and might be missing in import files. Improve logging. Extend and
          fix CertCourseProcessorTests.
        
        * Provide customizable method for disabling clearance by clearance
          officers.
        
        * Merge Javascript functions into one file. Add Javascript function to
          calculate copyright notice year automatically.
        
        * Use lastname (surname) instead of firstname to verify found
          application record on ApplicantRegistrationPage.
        
        * Append hash '#' also to datetimes to circumvent unwanted excel
          automatic.
        
        * Method for (customizable) application passport upload requirements
          added.
        
        * Filter payment ticket data exports by specifying the payment_date
          period.
        
        * Method for (customizable) application payment slip download
          requirements added.
        
        * Method for (customizable) application payment ticket upload
          requirements added.
        
        * Remove unused rowadd javascript function.
        
        * certcode and reg_number added to DataForBursaryExporter.
        
        * Some batch processor names corrected.
        
        * Fixed ReST markup in setup.py long description.
        
        
        1.2 (2014-06-16)
        ================
        
        * Redirect to login page after using password mandate.
        
        * Adding student payment tickets is logged.
        
        * Provide XMLRPC services for storing and retrieving fingerprint
          scans.
        
        * Sort ContextualDictSource by dictionary values not by keys.
        
        * Add regular school fee and balance payments when exporting payments
          overviews.
        
        * Add samePaymentMade method to StudentsUtils.
        
        * Fingerprint file upload enabled.
        
        * is_fresh property method added to Student class.
        
        * Special application procedure modified. Special applicants must submit
          their form before they can download payment slips. Thus the regular
          workflow is now applied but, in contrast to regular applications,
          special applicants can create and pay more than one payment ticket.
          Also application slips are hidden.
        
        * Add setMatricNumber and constructMatricNumber methods to StudentsUtils.
        
        * When sending mails, always set from-address to 'no-reply@waeup.org'.
          Real from-addresses are now set in Cc and Reply-To fields. This is
          to tackle problems with yahoo (does not allow yahoo.com mails to be
          sent from non-yahoo servers).
        
        * Multiple payments in special application containers enabled.
          Special payment applicants remain in state started after payment.
        
        * File input fields brought into shape with Bootstrap 3.
        
        * Transcript and access code pagetemplates adjusted.
        
        * Print QR codes on all student slips.
        
        * Allow adding current_level to base data section on all student slips
          (requested by Uniben).
        
        * Windows is no longer supported. Installation manual removed.
        
        * Added JS helper to scroll to sequencelists after adding/removing items.
        
        
        1.1 (2014-03-13)
        ================
        
        * Add display_fullname column to CourseTicketExporter (requested by Uniben).
        
        * Do also export student and course ticket data of students on probation.
        
        * 'Create student' option removed from 'Application Transition'
          select field.
        
        * API docs added.
        
        * Back-to links replaced by animated jQuery plugins.
        
        * Default frontpage text updated.
        
        * Use absolute urls on datacenter pages.
        
        * Provide customizable method for disabling student payments.
        
        * After login and logout, regular users (officers) are redirected
          to the portal's index page not to the portal's root. The
          root URL can now be rewritten be Nginx or Apache so that the user
          is being redirected to the university website
          when entering the root URL directly or clicking the acronym.
        
        * Show tooltip alert and warning window before updating plugins.
        
        * JSAction has been deprecated. KofaAction can be used instead. Additional
          parameters can be used in @action decorators to enable tooltips and/or
          warning windows. The old @jsaction decorator still triggers a default
          warning message.
        
        * jquery-ui.min.js is also used for tooltips.
        
        * Do not create TSC AC batch when updating plugins.
          All TSC batches are created.
        
        * Make table on applicantsrootpage responsive.
        
        * Change width of input, select and textarea fields.
        
        * Use only https in theme.html.
        
        * INSTALL.txt updated and integrated into Sphinx documentation.
        
        * Redundancies removed in docs.
        
        
        1.0 (2014-02-22)
        ================
        
        * Diazofied the complete package.
        
        
        0.2.1 (2014-02-21)
        ==================
        
        * Send mails to from-address, if site-wide config admin is
          different from it.
        
        * Change flash message for successful applicants.
        
        * Use more attributes of applicants with payer objects.
        
        * Update copyright infos (year).
        
        * Localization updates.
        
        
        0.2 (2014-01-09)
        ================
        
        Tons of changes.
        
        
        0.1 (never released)
        ====================
        
        Initial version. Copy from waeup.sirp.
        
        
        Download
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Keywords: portal waeup kofa student university registration grok zope
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Environment :: Web Environment
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Education
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Operating System :: POSIX
Classifier: Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux
Classifier: Framework :: Zope3
Classifier: Topic :: Education
Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP
