The following list of some of the ARCADE commands gives an indication of the scope of the system. These are all UNIX commands which can be run directly, embedded in scripts or placed in a user's `remote-jobs' file to be run automatically, as appropriate.
absence-summary.........................................show attendance summary bad...................................................show 'bad' irregularities blank.................................................show where data is needed checking...............................report on or switch data checking status course-summary..............................show summary statistics of a module data.......................................................enter or browse data doing........................................show numbers of students on module due..................................................show what needs to be done edit-privileges.......................edit user privileges for current database edit-sheet-details..................edit sheet-details describing lab structure email.............................send email to a group / selection of students excuses.....................................................show excuse details expected.....................................................show expected work fails.............................................show students who are failing final-diffs....................show differences between two sets of final marks full-story..................................show full lab details for a student group-info..............show module group, students and staff hours information help....................get help on ARCADE commands or UNIX commands/facilities histogram............................................show histogram of a module list-all-modules..........show names of ALL modules taken by 1 or more students list-arcade-modules................................show names of ARCADE modules mail-bad-summaries.......send automatic email feedback to students (and tutors) mail-full-stories...............................email students full lab records mail-name-list................................email student details to students mail-report..........email a report to the students in it, with an introduction make-email-script...make an email script for a module (and group), or selection make-final-marks......make final (or predicted) marks for all completed modules marking.........................list sessions which have marking or demo needed name-list-edit...............add new students or edit existing students details name-list-trace.............................trace changes to a student's record name-list-update...........create or update student details from external files omitted....................................show where data is (probably) missed out-of-range..............................list sessions with out-of-range marks outstanding.............................................show oustanding details print-course-summaries...................................print course summaries print-full-stories..............................print students full lab records print-histograms........................................print module histograms progress..................................report simple overview of all modules queries...................................list sessions with unanswered queries read-mail.............................................read email from a student remote-jobs-control..................set up jobs to be done remotely by crontab restore-all-data......................................restore data from back-up scaling........................................show scaling factors for modules sessions-table..........................................show sessions timetable sheets.....................................................print session sheets stud.......................................................show student details supervisors-report....................show `bad' irregularities for a lab-group table...............................show tables for certain students or modules unchecked.....................................list sessions with unchecked data