I have a web app that created report cards. A teacher who logs in sees a list of their students (no matter the subject) and when they click a student, they are brought to a page with all the subjects that they teach that student.
The issue is that every year this extremely long process needs to be done: Assigning a teacher to a student in each subject.
Any ideas for how to make this simpler?
If you have a large drop-down list (for example, a list of students), consider adding a search to the drop-down list. This will speed up the ability to search while not increasing the length of the drop-down list.
In addition, add the ability to enter text into the search field immediately after the user clicks on the dropdown. Thus, the user will not even look at the drop-down list, but will immediately start entering the student's first or last name.
Lastly, add a full view or advanced search button to the dropdown. There will probably be exceptions when the user will need to open a large modal window where he can more accurately find the student.
You have not mentioned who is responsible of doing this. First try to outline the user task of the person that does this and the information structure where the teacher sits in. Are teachers part of a certain subject ? How many teachers have the same subject? Are teachers part of multiple subjects?
Assuming there are less teachers than students I would create another view, like a teacher's students views and in there with a dropdown with search I would add the students of the particular teacher.
Or a subject view, maybe cards for each subjects, inside of the subjects the teachers and under teachers the students.
Just map out the data and see what would be the easiest way. Because instead of associating a teacher for each individual students, let's say you have 50 students / 5 teachers. It would be easier to go to each 5 teachers and associate a number of students.
