Why is there a limit on the length of a report in CamCORS?
A. The current limit on the length of report text in CamCORS is 16 lines of up to 60 characters. It was not originally planned that a limit should be set, but there has been strong pressure for us to keep reports to a size that allows for them to be printed and guillotined to A5 format. Few, if any, reports in the paper system would have exceeded this limit. A number of supervisors, however, in subjects in the arts and humanities in particular, have clearly found that the electronic format and the note-keeping facilities of CamCORS have encouraged more expansive reporting, and would like to see the limit removed. Technically this might mean that every report form, if printed out, would have to be printed singly on a sheet of A4, and since most fall considerably under the present limit this would result not only in an additional expense but also in a waste of paper. It is a pity to restrict unnecessarily the useful recording and reporting facilities offered by CamCORS, but it is also tr
