International
Baccalaureate  
Database-driven
web site on Visual Arts projects 
 
The
IBO needed to provide examples of students' work submitted
for the various 'Visual Arts' qualifications. These are
to be used by teachers worldwide to develop their skills
in fairly assessing work, according to the exam criteria
and using actual examiners' comments as 'exemplars'.
IBO also wanted to be able to maintain all content on
the web site themselves and without the need for any
web programming. They also wanted to be able to easily
generate different language versions, again without web
programming.
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TNA
was awarded the contract to develop the complete site using
Cold Fusion linked to an Oracle database.Every item of
text in the site (student and examiners' comments, button
labels, section titles, user instructions, etc.) are drawn
from fields in the database. Every scanned image is also
referenced by its file name in a database field, rather
than being 'hard coded' in HTML. The visitor may choose
their language (English initially, Spanish and French to
be added in 2003) and may inspect up to 8 different student
exemplars. Each has up to 12 submitted images and a workbook
with up to 24 images.
(The Visual Arts Exemplars are held in a private area of
the IBO web site and are only accessible to authorised
teaching staff.)
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