This morning was my MAEDS 2018 presentation. I presented “Creating Workflows with Open Source Software”. This presentation focused on creating workflows for the approval process.
As an example, I used the situation of a principal requesting an additional teacher. Traditionally, this has been done with paper. Recently, many people have moved to using Google Forms. While this is electronic and has some advantages over paper, it doesn’t solve the whole problem. Those problems include the original (in this case the principal), doesn’t know where the process is.
What I presented on today was using Joget. Joget is open source software that allows one to create a very easy to use system for end users. Although it isn’t quite as easy to create the workflows (you do need to have some basic understanding of programming), it is MUCH easier than other options that I’ve found. Joget is very visual based. To create workflows, you drag and drop elements.
The biggest issue is frequently defining exactly what the process is.
The group was a great group with good questions and suggestions. I will be following up the presentation with the suggestions that were brought forth.
Sharing is important. I was very pleased at the number and interest for my presentation.
Now back to the conference…
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