[[!meta title="Who needs Excel? Managing your students qualifications with org-table"]] [[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2023 Daniel Molina"]] [[!inline pages="internal(2023/info/table-nav)" raw="yes"]] # Who needs Excel? Managing your students qualifications with org-table Daniel Molina (he/him) - website: Mastodon: @dmolina@fosstodon.org, [[!inline pages="internal(2023/info/table-before)" raw="yes"]] In this talk I will explain how to use org-table to review and calculate the qualifications of the students (but the used techniques are general). I will show how to use several tables, one for each partial exam, using weights for create the final table. I also use summarize table with org-aggregate for a general view of results, and export the qualification to PDF. All the process with Emacs! I’ll demonstrate some functionality I use for: - Formula for calculate the qualification using weights, that can be easily updated. - Summarize tables with org-aggregate (). - Create a final table making reference to tables in different files. For several years, I have been using that workflow, and I consider it is very natural with many advantages, like writing the reasons/feedback in the same file with the qualifications, or to be able to use a version control. About the speaker: My name is Daniel Molina Cabrera, I am a senior lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Granada, in Spain. I use only Linux in my computer, and after been using Vim many years, last years I mainly use Emacs for editing, as file manager, as email program, ... In my experience, using org-table is very powerful and useful, but many interesting features are not well-known. Unfortunately, sometimes it is difficult to see examples showing the possibilities, and I think this example could be very informative. [[!inline pages="internal(2023/info/table-after)" raw="yes"]] [[!inline pages="internal(2023/info/table-nav)" raw="yes"]]