Introduction
Computers were being used in management applications in some Victorian schools long before the Department of Education got involved in providing administrative software for schools in the mid-1980s. Some schools, in which a particular teacher had an interest in computing, used teacher-designed BASIC programs on Apple// computers for things like scheduling and recording information about the school sports, for word processing in the school office, for assistance with timetabling, and for listings of students in each class. These were very much single school applications (Tatnall 1995).
Every school needs to store large quantities of administrative data relating to matters concerning individual students, groups of students, parents, teachers, events, and curriculum. This entry reports on how one primary school in the Australian state of Victoria makes use of its educational management...
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Tatnall, C. (2020). School Management Software in a Primary School in Victoria, Use of. In: Tatnall, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10576-1_130
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