How Do I?

How do I display available teachers for a particular class without using the period filter?

After setting up all your absences in Extras, the usual methods of filtering by period are using the period filter at the top of the right pane, or right-clicking on an appropriate class to be covered and selecting to filter by period. Both of these methods confine the display in the left pane to classes for that period only.

In some cases you may not know which period a class that you need to cover belongs to. A quick way of discovering this, and also displaying a list of available teachers is to:

	Make sure you have all classes for all periods showing
	Tick the HIDE NO CLASS tick box to reduce the display
	In the left pane click on the class you wish to display available teachers for
	The available teachers display in the right pane will jump to that period

Note: It is not a good idea to try to cover say, a period three extra if the period one available teachers are displayed as there is no certainty that the teacher is also available for that period. If the teacher is not available for the other period a dialogue box asking whether you wish to allow the extra will appear.

  Did You Know?

You can now configure First Class more to your liking. The new features in release 282 of First Class allow you to. . .

	Set the Last 10 in extras to whatever number of days' history you want to display
	Set your own block prefix
	Show the count of clashes when editing a timetable, eg, TC-2, instead of TC+

Look out for more great new options in upcoming releases.

  New Training Dates (Melbourne)

We are pleased to announce that 2 extra Training Course have been scheduled for First Class users in Victoria. The following courses will be held at the Human Edge Training Centre, 427 City Road South Melbourne:

	Introduction to First Class	Monday 19 August 2002
	Introduction to First Class	Friday 30 August 2002

These introductory courses provide a great overview of the software as well as tips for using shortcuts and other useful features.

The cost of the course is $245 per person (ex. GST) for schools on Service & Support, or $345 per person (ex. GST) for schools that are not on Service & Support. 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:

	Import data into First Class from First Class 6 and in the form of text files
	Export data from First Class to other programs
	Create and enter data into databases
	Create and enter data into a grid
	Resolve clashes
	Allocate students to classes
	Move students between classes
	Allocate extras
	Generate and edit a timetable

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, but hurry places are filling fast! More courses for New South Wales users are currently being scheduled, stay tuned for details…..

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For more information, please contact:

Robert Bakker
Human Edge Software
Phone: +61 3 9699 9777
Fax: +61 3 9690 2802
Email: firstclass@human-edge.com.au

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