Hello Skyward Customer,

Here is some great news for you and the teachers in your district that use EA+!  The programming staff at Skyward has been working many overtime hours this past month to produce a number of significant improvements to EA+.

These improvements will be available in PMP 1 that will be available on or about January 27^th, 2006.  Below is a laundry list of these improvements.

On or before January 15^th, we will be providing each of you with tutorials that will explain each of these improvements in detail. 

1 - Quick Score option.   

1 - This option will present all students and all assignments on single screen for the teachers to enter scores.

2 - We have also been able to lock the student names in position so the assignments can scroll underneath them.

      3 – We modified the display so the teacher can readily see all missing assignments.

4 – We modified the Score entry to “uncheck” the missing assignment box when a score is entered.

2 – Report Improvements: 

      1 - The report navigation has been modified so it takes only 2 clicks to produce a report.

2 - We created a “Report Template” option that will enable teachers to create and save report format parameters.

3 – Skyward has provided a number of “default templates” (that produce routine report formats) that can be used by the teachers.                

4 – We added an Assignment Master list that readily shows which assignments have been released to families and students.

3 – “Drop Down” tabs on the Main Screen of GradeBook:                      

      1 - We modified the tabs at the top of the Main screen to be “Drop Down” tabs:      

                        Classes Tab; Attendance Tab; Options Tab and the Reports Tab.

      2 - These Drop Down tabs eliminated a lot of unnecessary “clicks”.

4 – “Display Options” and “Report” Drop Down tabs for all Classes”: 

      We are adding these two tabs on the “Classes” screen.

      1- “Display options” for the grade book can be set once and applied to all classes.  

      2- Reports that apply to all classes can be run with a single click.

5 – Grade Sheet sequence number:   We added an option for teachers to sequence their classes in the same order as their manual grade sheets.

6 – Student Selection:    On any of the student display options, you can now jump to any student in the class instead of just going Prev/Next.

7 - SURVEY navigation improvements:  We added Survey navigation to the main screen and the attendance screens.

8 – Attendance Process changes: 

1 – We added a display of the past two weeks of attendance to the Attendance entry screen.

2 – We modified the heading of the attendance column on the main screen to show if attendance has been taken.

      3 – We modified the attendance seating chart to allow for a variety of seating arrangements.
 

9 – Family Access   

1 - The Family Access screens are being redone to make viewing of the Grades and assignments more “User Friendly”.

2 - The Family Access view for the Teacher will now include an Assignment Listing option that will readily display any assignments that are withheld from the Family view.

10 – We standardized all the “Navigation Buttons”:  They will all function identically on every screen.