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The school-wide lesson planning solution.
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2010-06-29
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Welcome teachers from Canterbury. If you are here as a result of the flyer I sent to you yesterday, start by downloading and installing the software first. Have a look at the tutorials in conjunction with the software. There is also substantial documentation in the User Guide inside the software. Any questions feel free to email me. My email address is sales@creditscore.co.nz
Cheers Rob Kellock |
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2010-05-27
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Added a Microsoft Word 97-2003 mail merge report into the directory C:\Classmaker\Reports. Microsoft Word mail merge makes a good interactive report writer. Just print your reports to HTML file and use them as the recipient list in Microsoft Word. The sample report is your classic Unit of Work with a cover page followed by each lesson to a page. The sample report uses either the Print All (Print All Lessons for Today) or Print Unit (Print Entire Unit) reports from the Print Lessons screen.
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2010-03-22
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I'm pleased to announce that Classmaker now works on all Microsoft's 64 bit operating systems. The backing up issue turned out to be very simple, the Firebird database gets installed under C:\Program Files (x86)\Firebird in the 64 bit OS's but C:\Program Files\Firebird in the 32 bit OS's. This was causing problems for the backup batch file.
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2010-02-08
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From April 01, 2010 Classmaker will require an annual licence fee to operate. What impact will this have on you? If you are an existing user, email me your full contact details, including your name, address and telephone number plus the contact details of your school. Include a copy of your Classmaker++.bak file in the same email as an attachment. Do this before April 01, 2010 and I will email you a free single user licence for the 2010/11 year.
There could be money in this change for you too! The licence fee structure includes a commission to any teacher that purchases Classmaker and then sells a Classmaker multi-user licence to their school. See the home page on this site for further details. |
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2010-01-06
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A business and economics teacher at an all girls high school from Jamaica has told me that the Database backup batch file does not work on Vista X64, hence my restriction to 32 bit Windows operating systems for now. She is managing the problem in the interim by simply Stopping ClassmakerService, copying the Classmaker++.gdb database file to another location and Starting ClassmakerService again. This is what her first email to me said. "I just want to say that I have been using your software from September (2009) to
organize my lesson plans, and It is pretty cool." What I'm really impressed with is that she only needed to contact me to tell me that my software didn't work, not how to use it. Wow!
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2009-10-20
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Added some video tutorials of Classmaker in Shockwave Flash format.
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2008-05-17
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I'm pleased to announce that Classmaker now works on Microsoft's Vista. The problem wasn't Classmaker, but the Firebird database it uses. This download upgrades from Firebird 1.5 to Firebird 2.0 which appears to run faster than Firebird 1.5. Please note the warning about Firebird's Control Applet and Vista on the download page and ensure that you uncheck the Firebird Control Applet option when prompted.
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2007-09-06
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I give up! Microsoft's Vista is unstable and it's too early to migrate Classmaker to it just yet. Maybe in 12 months time when Vista Service Pack 2 is released. In the meantime, this download upgrades from Firebird 1.0 to Firebird 1.5, the latest stable version of the Firebird database.
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2007-08-15
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Just discovered that Classmaker does NOT work on Windows Vista. Something different about how it's Services work. Will be upgrading the software to cope with these changes shortly. In the meantime, Classmaker still works on XP, 2000, NT4, ME and 98SE.
Drop me an email with any suggestions you have to improve your experience of using Classmaker. Your feedback is appreciated. |
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2007-07-10
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Well, Classmaker is finished at last! As you no doubt know, software is never truly finished. When it stops being maintained it is no longer in use. But what I can say is that Classmaker's feature set is finished. The to-do list has been exhausted and apart from bug fixes and usability enhancements, I have no plans to extend Classmaker further.
Right now, I am working on Classmaker's documentation. Inside Classmaker you will find a Long Term plan called User Guide. This contains the help file so far. Eventually, I will probably convert it into your typical help file, but while it's a work in progress, that's where most of Classmaker's documentation resides. |