Robert Bakker will be holding training courses in Sydney from Monday October 16 to Wednesday October 19. There are still vacancies for the introductory course on the 19th, but the advanced course has proved very popular and we are not taking any more bookings. If you would like to attend a future advanced course please contact Robert direct – he will place you on a priority waiting list.

For schools that would like a more personal touch, Consultancies can be arranged either at your school or in our offices. Check the following link for consultancy rates.
http://www.humanedge.biz/firstclass/consultancies.htm

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The training and implementation in First Class and Outcomes at the International School of Beijing - (ISB) was very successful, as was the First Class training at the Yew Chung International School. The Middle School timetable will now run smoothly, and the Elementary School are very excited about being able to enter their timetable into First Class. The attendees from both the Beijing and Shanghai campuses of the Yew Chung Schools now have a good understanding of First Class and will be able to easily complete the timetables at their respective schools.

The Beijing expedition included the installation and set up of OUTCOMES, Human Edge’s new student assessment, reporting and analysis program in the middle school at ISB. This part of the school represents over 500 students, 72 teachers and 181 classes. First Class data is imported directly into the Outcomes Administrator module to avoid duplication of data entry tasks. Reporting periods, assessment areas, marking schemes and templates where set up according to the school’s individual needs. Teachers are now able to access their own classes and subjects for marking via a web interface at any time. All staff have have already begun marking their Interim Reports. The Yew Chung schools are also very interested in adopting Outcomes as their student reporting software. The interface from First Class brings a powerful combination of software together to streamline school operations.

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• An "Active for Roll" field in Year Level Maintenance to block certain year levels in the school (eg P/K-6 in a P/K-12 school), and in Period Maintenance to allow you to determine which periods are to be roll marked.
• Reports will use the Year Level for Rollover for the breakdown of years, instead of the Year Level (Blocking). This means that, if you have combined year levels for the purpose of Blocking, the year levels will be split for the reports.
• For Victorian schools the two types of CASES reports can now be accessed from the one screen. You can specify whether you wish to use the AM/PM summation, or individual periods for roll marking, and whether you want the day-by-day absence report (formerly called the "Cases Significant Absence Report"), or a summary report (formerly called the "Cases Absence Summary Report").
• The "Roll Edit" screen will have a "Mark All", with a reason selector, allowing you to mark all students in the selected class, or all periods for the selected student to be marked with the same reason. You will also be able to update the roll over a data range making the maintenance of this information significantly quicker! Rather than needing to update every period separately with the same reason, you will be able to apply a Reason or an explanation to a range of periods for a student.
• If you have any suggestions after looking at the software upon release please let us know.
• The class drop-down list in "Roll Edit" in A+ will sort by "Explanation Letter". This will allow you to sort by students whose parents have explained an absence.

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Did You Know?

Software You can get subject lists from First Class by following these steps... Save your database as a new one. from the TOOLS menu, select BLOCK GENERATION. Right-click on the grid header and select "Clear All Lines". Save the changes. From the REPORTS menu, select CLASS and then LISTS. Click on the “Unallocated” radio button. Print as usual. Note that steps 1-3 are not necessary if no student has been allocated to a class yet.

Support We have highly qualified support analysts able to assist you in your SQL Server setup and database management. For instance, if you have any problems setting up your database for A+ and/or First Class Web, you can call our support line on 1300 301 931 and ask for Max.

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