I (think I) remember emailing James Bassett (at the request of Kim Slagel, AP Calculus teacher), the creator of the Basmati software and format, about how he came up with the name I believe he responded with something along the lines of eating basmati rice and his travels.įor KS Connect, I kept the parsing engine and the COURSEINFO and GMSCORES MySQL tables that stored the data but built an entirely different wrapper around it for students, teachers, and parents to access grades. Misty City's Grade Machine and OrbisSoft's Easy Grade Pro supported it, which I believe are now all defunct programs (although one of the school districts I support was still using Easy Grade Pro up until two years ago). It allowed teachers to upload into the software an XML export file of their gradebooks, which then students and parents could view. The Basmati software is an open-source PHP project from 2001.
I guess the KS teachers were googling quite a bit to get us to be the fourth hit in Google's eyes. and the fourth hit is instructions for Kamehameha Schools teachers to upload grades in the Basmati format to KS Connect! Mark Ewald's and my instructions, originally penned in July of 2005 in the teacher's workroom on the 2nd floor of Pākī hall.
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And to my surprise, the first hit is instructions on how to upload grades to the Basmati open source software, the second hit is eSIS instructions for downloading and uploading grades to Teacher Assist, the third hit is the EGP manual.