Teacher - A teacher
Parent - A parent
Student - A student - linked to a parent. A parent can have zero or more students.
Location - A place, e.g. a school
Appointment - A scheduled event.
Event - When something takes place. Comprises of one or more teachers, zero or more students, a location and a time/duration.
Student Lesson - A special type of event. Comprises of a single teacher, a lesson type, a student, a location and a time/duration.
The screenshots linked to in this document are large. These may take some time to display on your screen and you may have to use your browser’s zoom facility to view them properly.
Gives an overview of all student lessons/events:
· http://www.jdnet.co.uk/TASC/01_GlobalSchedule_WorkWeek.jpg
Each appointment's background can be colour coded. By default it's the location's colour however it can be overridden. Notice the appointment on Sat, 07 Feb at 10:00 ... each little coloured box is a category which you have associated with the appointment. When you move your mouse over the appointment a tooltip pops up showing the appointment summary. You have your other normal calendar views of course:
· http://www.jdnet.co.uk/TASC/01_GlobalSchedule_DayView.jpg
· http://www.jdnet.co.uk/TASC/01_GlobalSchedule_WeekView.jpg
· http://www.jdnet.co.uk/TASC/01_GlobalSchedule_MonthView.jpg
You can also group the schedule in many ways, e.g.:
· http://www.jdnet.co.uk/TASC/02_GlobalSchedule_GroupBy.jpg
You can drag'n'drop appointments to reschedule them. TASC will keep note of the appointments movements, so you can see a history of changes. You can right click on one (or more than one) appointment and bring up the context menu. You have the normal cut/copy/paste facilities as well as the ability to edit the appointment, e.g.:
· http://www.jdnet.co.uk/TASC/04_EditStudentLesson.jpg
By default double-clicking on an appointment will edit it however you can get it to optionally go straight to the appointment’s lesson plan screen:
· http://www.jdnet.co.uk/TASC/04_EditStudentLesson_LessonPlan.jpg
This allows you to take quickly take notes, etc during a lesson if needed.
You also have the SMS ability, whereby you can send a text message to student’s (and/or their parent):
· http://www.jdnet.co.uk/TASC/07_SmsAppointment.jpg
This also shows the token replacement facility you have whereby you can generate personalised messages. Note that in order to send an SMS you must connect your mobile phone to your PC (either via the phone’s supplied cable or via Bluetooth). Any messages sent will be as if you sent them normally via your phone, therefore you may incur network charges.
When you create student lessons/events you have various ways of generating dates/times for the appointments:
· http://www.jdnet.co.uk/TASC/08_AppointmentGenerator_OncePerWeek.jpg
· http://www.jdnet.co.uk/TASC/08_AppointmentGenerator_RunningRota.jpg
However you do it all these appointments are linked together in a series. This allows you to optionally add/delete/edit everything in this series. For example here is the screen to quickly reschedule appointments in a series:
· http://www.jdnet.co.uk/TASC/04_RescheduleStudentLessonSeries.jpg
You can also see your upcoming appointments (the outlook tab):
· http://www.jdnet.co.uk/TASC/02_GlobalSchedule_Outlook.jpg
Clicking on one of these will show the appointment in the global schedule however hitting ctrl+click will show the parent/student tab:
· http://www.jdnet.co.uk/TASC/03_ParentsAndStudents_StudentSchedule.jpg
This screen is split into 3 parts:
1. Left pane - parent quick list - allows you to quickly drill down to find parents/students, e.g.: http://www.jdnet.co.uk/TASC/03_ParentsAndStudents_QuickList.jpg
2. Middle pane - view the selected parent
3. Right pane - students associated with the parent
In the middle pane you can see little icons. The little globe beside the postcode will show the postcode in google maps. The little phone beside the module numbers will bring up the SMS. In the right hand pane are the students for the parent. The tab at the top shows you the student names. The tabs at the bottom show you the various screens for the student:
· General – shows general information about the student: http://www.jdnet.co.uk/TASC/03_ParentsAndStudents_StudentGeneral.jpg
· Schedule – shows the students personal schedule: http://www.jdnet.co.uk/TASC/03_ParentsAndStudents_StudentSchedule.jpg
· Targets – shows the student targets screen so you can keep track of their progress: http://www.jdnet.co.uk/TASC/03_ParentsAndStudents_StudentTargets.jpg
· Examinations – shows the student examinations and their results: http://www.jdnet.co.uk/TASC/03_ParentsAndStudents_StudentExaminations.jpg
· Books – shows the student books screen where you can see what books they have bought: http://www.jdnet.co.uk/TASC/03_ParentsAndStudents_StudentBooks.jpg
· Reports – shows the student reports screen where you can write reports on the student: http://www.jdnet.co.uk/TASC/03_ParentsAndStudents_StudentReports.jpg
There are some in-built reports:
· See all parents - http://www.jdnet.co.uk/TASC/05_Report_Parents.jpg
· Schedule summary - http://www.jdnet.co.uk/TASC/05_Report_ScheduleSummary.jpg
· Write your own - http://www.jdnet.co.uk/TASC/05_Report_SqlQuery.jpg
All of the data can be printed or exported to XML, CSV, etc.
There are some in-built charts, e.g.:
· Show the students by school - http://www.jdnet.co.uk/TASC/06_Chart_StudentsBySchool.jpg
· Show students by age - http://www.jdnet.co.uk/TASC/06_Chart_StudentsByAge.jpg (remember, this is synthetic data hence the negative age)
You can also print schedule labels which are useful for putting on student’s practice books: http://www.jdnet.co.uk/TASC/08_PrintLabels.jpg
If you have any questions, email James Dickson on jamie@jdnet.co.uk
