Create The Best Class Lists with Monkey

In my opinion the best use for Monkey is creating faculty class lists of students in a school. Here are the steps:

  1. Prepare a CSV file of student data and import it into Monkey
  2. Record the web of relationships among the students
  3. Update the group size to the number and size of the classes you need
  4. To stream the classes select the “Group Ability” checkbox
  5. Click generate and watch the Monkey place each student into their best class

You will now be left with a set optimum classes, students with bad relationships in separate classes and students with good relationships in the same class. If you chose to stream then each class will also contain students clustered around an average mark, but the software would have still done its best to keep those relationships in order.

Good, one less barrier to students achieving their educational outcomes and one less headache for school executives and teachers. There is nothing worse than spending every lesson on behaviour management, lets get those class lists right this time.

Comments 1

  1. Richard wrote:

    Step 1 is optional, you could type all the names and marks into Monkey directly, it would just take a long time. If you already store your student data in a computer system (such as Excel) then creating a CSV file would be the least painful route. Obviously, if your not streaming then there is no need to import student marks.

    Posted 14 Apr 2008 at 8:59 am

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