[MACEP] Spreadsheets for Signups

[Tim Chase]

>
> Hi, I need some advice.
>
> I am opening a computer lab at my site. For reasons of demand, I  
> have to tightly control access to this lab. Folks who need to use it  
> for study or for workshops need to be signed up for access to the  
> lab. So I need a tool that others will have access to so they can  
> sign someone up for the lab or workshop in 1 hour increments. I also  
> need something that won't allow folks to sign up too many people.  
> I've thought of creating an excel worksheet or even a database.
>
> Does anyone have have a suggestion for me? I'd like to see if  
> someone has already invented such a thing.
>
> Thanks!!
> Cathy Kreisman

Cathy,

I'm looking forward to seeing the MACEP replies to this--I'm sure  
someone's invented the tool and I don't know yet what it is.  Another  
tool that I'm just sure is invented is a library-lending tool to track  
who has what book and who wants it next.  Our regional edtech group, www.coedtech.org 
, has a modest lending library and no good tool to track the books.

But in case nobody does suggest a tool for you, you absolutely can't  
afford to do a local spreadsheet!  I suppose a spreadsheet housed on a  
server might do the trick, but still it's less of a solution than an  
online GoogleDoc spreadsheet.  One nice thing about a GD spreadsheet  
is that there is a revision history.  So if I've signed up for the lab  
and I meet Mr. Brown and his class there . . . and we go look and his  
name is where mine used to be (he's sneaky that way), we can check the  
revision history and find out who removed my name from that cell (and  
when).

There are even new slick templates for GoogleDocs that are, well,  
slick.  http://docs.google.com/templates

~Tim

You can be great!  Don’t settle for merely happy.
  __________________
Tim Chase
Technology / Reading
La Pine Middle School
Bend La Pine School District
<edtech2020 at gmail.com>

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