Introducing Tip of the Day
I created a new category that I’ll store these tips under, Tip of the Day. Of course that may be an overly optimistic category but tip-of-the-every-couple-days just doesn’t sound as good.
Today, I’ll give a brief overview of how to contact us and one other product tip. First of all you can always post a comment in the blog. We moderate comments so they may not show up instantaneously but we update as quickly as we can. You can also email us at support @ myhomeschoolplan.com.
Once logged in, in the upper right there are two links, one for forums and one for suggestions. The forum is a great place to post bugs, questions, or just general opinions. In addition to the blog we’ll post announcements in one of the forums.
If you have an idea or suggestion for improvement, use the suggestion link. We’re utilizing the terrific uservoice.com service for this and so far the results have been great.
So beyond how to contact us, let’s talk about Subjects. Subjects are the highest level of curriculum, such as Math, Science, Foreign Language, etc. (And, thanks to one of your suggestions, we added a couple new ones as well as an ‘Other’.) Within our Setup page, you have the ability to create Courses. Courses are a subset of Subjects. For example, under the Subject Math, you may have a Course called Algebra, Logic, Fractions, etc.
When you create a course, we require you to add a grade level. This allows you to view reports by grade level so you can see how many hours your student has spent on various grade levels, e.g. a gifted student spends a semester divided between 6th, 7th, and 9th grade level courses.
However, and again, this is based on your feedback, we’ve made a tweak that we think many of you will really like (in fact, we’ve already received positive responses.) Not everyone wants or cares about the grade level reporting. Many parents care most about getting things set up quickly so they can spend time teaching. So we created a grade level called Multi-grade. This allows you to create a course, then later assign an activity easily to many students without having to recreate the activity multiple times.
We hope little touches like this will make this an enjoyable application, and enjoyable experience for you.
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