 Date Set for Next Release of First Class
The next release of First Class is in its final testing phase and has been scheduled for release on Wednesday 9th April. It contains some fantastic improvements that were featured in Issue 48 of our newsletter. If you happened to miss the article, click on the following link to see what exciting features have been added.
http://www.humanedge.biz/firstclass/newsletter/FC2k%20Newsletter%20Issue%2048.htm
Melbourne Training Course
An additional First Class Introductory course has been scheduled for Victorian schools as follows:
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Introduction to First Class
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Tuesday 29 April 2003
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The course will be held at our Training Centre in City Road South Melbourne and provides a great overview of the software as well as tips for using shortcuts and other useful features.
The cost of the course is $280 per person (ex. GST) for schools on Service & Support, or $350 per person (ex. GST) for schools not on Service & Support. Discounts apply for multiple bookings, please see our website for further details.
http://www.humanedge.biz/firstclass/fc2000training.htm
A light lunch will be supplied and you will also receive a copy of the First Class training manual for you to keep.
On completion of the course you will know how to:
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Import data into First Class from other programs
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Export data from First Class to other programs
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Create and enter data into databases
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Create and enter data into a grid
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Resolve clashes
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Allocate students to classes
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Move students between classes
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Allocate extras
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Generate and edit a timetable
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The course commences at 9.00 am and concludes at approximately 4.00 pm. As our training courses are a forum for you to have your questions about the software dealt with, we remain flexible about the finishing time. Our instructors want to make sure that you get as much as possible out of your day and part of this is ensuring that we spend as much time as necessary answering your queries!
If you would like to reserve a place in this course please contact us using the link below or call 1300 550 765, we still have plenty of places available.
Training Booking
First Class Developer Kit
Exciting news!
The First Class Developer Kit will soon work with File Maker Pro. This will enable users of FileMaker to gain access to all of the First Class data. This can be used to import live up-to-the-minute First Class data directly into your FileMaker pro applications without the need to export it from First Class. It can be used to create reports, Windows applications and web pages.
The Developer Kit also works with Visual Basic, Excel, Word, Microsoft Access, Delphi, C++, ASP, Microsoft.net (Visual Basic, C#, C++ and ASP). ASP is free with Windows 2000 and Windows XP Pro, great for anyone wanting to write web pages using the First Class data.
Did You Know?
When dragging a double period on a timetable, the display of clashes has caused some confusion.
If a double period is being dragged to a different slot on the timetable the situation may arise where there are no clashes shown for the first half of the double but it appears that there are clashes for the second half. This gives the impression that moving the double to this new slot will result in clashes but in fact this is not the case.
The display of clashes shows the clashes that will occur if the double starts in a particular slot, not the clashes that will occur if the double continues through a particular slot. Therefore, even though you are moving a double period, the only slot that you need to check for clashes is the slot where the double period will begin.
In the example below no clashes will be created if the class is moved to Day 3, Period 4. The clash shown for Day 3, Period 5, can be ignored as the double period is not starting in this slot, it is simply continuing for this slot.
Website of the Week
www.museumofhoaxes.com/aprilframe.html
Were you taken in by any April Fool’s Day hoaxes this year? If you were chances are you weren’t alone!
There has long been debate about the origin of April Fool’s Day, and the April Fool’s Day section of the Museum of Hoaxes website outlines a few of the most common theories.
Of course the list of Top 100 April Fool’s Day hoaxes of all time is one of the best things about the site. You may have heard of some of the more famous ones, such as the Swiss Spaghetti Harvest and the UFO that landed just outside London in 1989, but some of the others are just as good.
A few of the hoaxes on the list are so outrageous that you wonder how anyone believed them in the first place, but others walk a finer line and may have been harder to pick at the time. To see this for yourself, why not do the April Fool’s Day Quiz? The Quiz consists of a list of news stories and asks you to pick which ones you think are genuine and which are hoaxes. Try it for yourself, the results may surprise you...
Websites of the Week on the Human Edge Website!
We have added a new page to the Links section of our website, on which you will find links to all websites of the week featured in the Human Edge newsletters.
So now you won’t need to spend time searching your old copies of newsletters to find that interesting website - simply go to our "one-stop-shop" for quick, easy access!
Quote of the Week
"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."
Stephen King, Author
For more information, please contact:
Robert Bakker
Human Edge Software
Phone: 1300 301 931
Fax: +61 3 9690 2802
Email: firstclass@humanedge.biz
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