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Happy New Year to you all!! Another year starts; and we hope that it will be a productive one. There are some exciting developments planned for First Class during this year, the principal one being the upgrade to SQL Server. An announcement will be made when this new version is available. This will preclude the necessity for First Class Web users to synchronize the First Class database with SQL, and will reduce the generation time of roll data for A+ users.
Implications for First Class are that we have re-written some of the program, which will make it easier to use. Some of the main changes and benefits are...
 | SQL will allow multiple timetables in the one database, so there is no need for multiple databases. Each timetable will have a date range, and because of this... |
| Extras will work better as there will be no need to import extras history. |
| The Blocking grid will feed directly into the timetable blocks, so grid items will disappear. |
| Allocation and block maintenance have been combined into one easier to use window. |
| Instances of classes can be edited without creating daughter blocks, removing daughter blocks as an entity. |
| A class in a block can be placed in a different day/period slot from the rest of the block. |
| No need to have seperate access and SQLServer databases. This was causing a lot of confusion. |
| Greater stability and speed, no more corupt databases. |
| Greater security. |
In the meantime, release 650 of the current version of First Class and First Class Web will be released shortly. Look out for the official announcement.
This is the time of the year when students like to make extra work for year co-ordinators (as if they didn't have enough to do already), and make changes to their courses. Also, new students may appear and need to be slotted into blocked classes.
How do I change a student's choices?
| 1. | From the "Tools" menu, select "Enrol students". |
| 2. | Get into "edit" mode. |
| 3. | Click the "Find Student" button. |
| You can confine the search by selecting the appropriate year level from the "Yearlevel" field, and by typing the first few characters of either the first or last name of the student in the "Student Name" field. | |
| 4. | Select the student either by clicking on their name and clicking "OK", or by double-clicking on the name. |
| 5. | Click on the (new) subjects the student is studying and click "Apply". |
How do I enrol a new student?
| 1. | From the "Tools" menu, select "Enrol students". |
| 2. | Get into "edit" mode. |
| If you had already made some changes to existing students' courses in the current session (see above), the "Existing Student" checkbox will be checked. Uncheck it. | |
| 3. | Key in the new student's details, overtyping the "Code", if necessary. |
| 4. | Click on the subjects the student is studying and click "Apply". |
Looking for an Electronic Roll Marking system?
First Class’s A+ is totally integrated and provides a very affordable solution.
Following on the market acceptance of A+ towards the back end of 2004, we would
like to welcome the following schools who have started the year by ordering A+ in January 2005:
St Peters Cranbourne
Patterson River Secondary College
Oakleigh Greek Orthodox College
Santa Maria Northcote
First Class training, which is held at 427 City Road, South Melbourne will be held on the following dates...
Melbourne
| Thursday, 10 February, 2005 | Introduction to First Class | 9 places left |
| Monday, 14 February, 2005 | First Class Blocking | 8 places left |
| Friday, 18 February, 2005 | First Class Timetabling | 7 places left |
| Wednesday, 23 February, 2005 | First Class Extras | 9 places left |
| Monday, 28 February, 2005 | Advanced First Class Day 1 | 9 places left |
| Tuesday, 1 March, 2005 | Advanced First Class Day 2 | 9 places left |
Sydney
First Class training in Sydney is held at Ground Floor, 48 Chandos Street, St Leonards. The dates are...
| Wednesday, 9 March, 2005 | Introduction to First Class | 10 places left |
| Thursday, 10 March, 2005 | First Class Advanced Day 1 | 10 places left |
| Friday, 11 March, 2005 | First Class Advanced Day 2 | 10 places left |
More dates will be scheduled as needed.
For more information please contact:
Robert Bakker
First Class Support, Implementation and Training team
Phone: 1300 301 931
E-mail: firstclass@humanedge.biz
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