Second semester grades for thousands of students in Evansville's public schools vanished during last week's spring break.Of course it would malfunction in the middle of a backup. That's the way Murphy's Law operates.
A computer crash, officially described in a news release as a "hardware malfunction," zapped the information Thursday.
It happened during scheduled maintenance on the Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corp. server.
"Disk errors occurred when the system was powered back up," the release stated.
News of the mishap was spread Monday via an e-mail from EVSC. Teachers, parents and students were stunned.
My favorite quote comes from a high school math teacher who kept her grades on paper:
"So it's not a major inconvenience for me," Oliver said. "I guess I'm a bit old school."Here in the Olympia School District, we use Skyward. Sometimes it goes down. I don't think it's ever erased data. Sounds like it might be time for once-per-month mandatory paper trails, just in case.
Ah, technology. Makes life easier.
We use Skyward as well except that we keep our grades on Easy Grade Pro (or in the old-fashioned paper grade books) and transfer report card grades to Skyward.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine keeping everything on a single electronic program. Good way to lose it all. Of course, I'm known for my organization and multiple back-ups (and get humorously teased for it). I got a bit paranoid about grades when my neighbor lost everything half-way through a semester.