July 6, 2008

• Attendance menu: Attendance Reports screen: Reduced the time a report for multiple students takes.
• Administration menu: Update School-Class-Staff screen: Added ability to inactivate a staff member so they no longer appear in the Staff Roster report. Inactivating a staff member automatically un assigns them from all classrooms and erases their Login ID, Password and School Email address.
• Administration menu: Class Directory and School Directory screens: Eliminated error that occurred when individuals names were extremely long causing the directories not to appear.

• Record/Plan menu: Record Progress-Planning screen: Added a new button titled Group Lesson. It will appear when you select a lesson. When you click the Group Lesson button, MRX will select all students ready for that lesson. Those students who have not been presented, practiced or mastered the selected lesson and who have either been presented, practiced or mastered the previous lesson are selected on the left side of the screen.
• Student Info menu: Allergies-Medications report: Correction made so that it now appears whenever allergies and medications have been entered and all emergency contacts appear also.
• Conference menu: Report Comments screen: When updating a status in the grid at the bottom of the screen, the list of Concepts/lessons no longer scrolls to the top of the grid.
• Conference menu: Generate Report screen: The "Preview Report as PDF" button reappears after generating a report for a student who had no statuses recorded for the school period(s) selected.
• Administration menu: Individual screen: Correction was made so that any phone contacts added when adding a new individual will be saved.
• Administration menu: Class Directory: Available to anyone assigned to a classroom and all MRX administrators. The Class Directory report provides information about each student including their name, mailing address and birth date including each parents name, email address and phone number.
• Administration menu: School Directory: Available only to MRX administrators. The Class Directory report provides information about each student including their name, mailing address and birth date including each parents name, email address and phone number.

• Student Info menu: Student Activity screen: Corrected problem when using the All button to select all students when no students had been selected. Previously, the error message "Please select at least one student" would appear.

• All screens: Changed MRX date selector. It now shows leap days and all the days of each month. The date text will display in red if the date is set to any day other than today's date.
• Record/Plan menu - Record Progress-Planning: Created new Help screen that displays when selecting "Show me a movie about this screen". Individual, non-narrated but captioned movies can be selected. Each movie describes a specific feature.

• Attendance menu - Attendance Report: Display holiday name on school attendance reports if a holiday description is present.

• Student Info - Cumulative Record: Corrected problem where the report was always displaying all works/lessons, even if the "All Works/Lessons" checkbox was not selected.
• Administration - School Periods: When deleting a School Period, a check is done to determine if any conference report comments where created for that School Period. A new message will appear warning that if the School Period is deleted, the conference report comments entered for that School Period will not be accessible. They will not appear on the Report Comments screen or on a conference report.

• Attendance - Attendance Reports: The following error was corrected. When selecting a date range, selecting the option "Summary", and clicking the button "Preview Report as PDF", an error would occur.
• Administration - Individuals: The following error was corrected. When adding a new individual, after saving the new individual their name would appear in the list of individuals but it would not be selected.
• Administration - Individuals: The following error was corrected. If the new individual was saved and then Phone Contact Info was added, the contact info was not saved when the Save button was clicked.
• Administration - Students: The following error was corrected. On the Relationships tab, when selecting an individual and clicking the Individual Info button, the Individuals popup would appear without the Phone Contact Info showing. Note: The Phone Contact Info is now appearing but it cannot be update on this popup.

• All screens: The Preview Report button has been removed from all screens. Now to either print or email a report, click the Preview Report as PDF button. The report will appear in another tab or window. If it does not, you are blocking popups for our web site and you need to change the popup blocker settings in your browser to allow popups for www.MontessoriRX.com. Contact me if you would like help making this change.

• All screens: Changed the message that appears when retrieving or saving data. The sentence "Do not proceed until this message disappears..." was added.
• Record/Plan - Student Notes: After generating a report for a student, the report and Email Report button are removed when selecting a different student.
• Conference - Generate Reports: After generating a report for a student, the report and Email Report button are removed when selecting a different student.

• Record/Plan - Review Plan: Corrected error that occurred when viewing data or a report when selecting the options "Present not Practiced" or "Practiced not Mastered" where multiple rows for the same lesson were appearing.

• Conference - Generate Reports: On Category and Summary comments, made the School Period and School Year bold and comment regular text instead of italics.
• Administration - Groups: Corrected problem when adding a new Group that caused duplicate student names to appear in the student list on other screens.
• Administration - Add-Update Works-Lessons: Corrected problem when adding a new Area and MRX would not allow the new Area name to be entered.
• Administration - Add-Update Works-Lessons: When moving works/lessons from one Area to another, the works/lessons will be added to the bottom of the sequence of the Area to which the works/lessons are moved.

• Record/Plan - Review Plan: Updated the reports for the Presented not Practiced and the Practiced not Mastered options. Note: these options will be titled differently if you changed the status names for your classroom. Now both reports will be sorted by student and then by area and work/lesson name. Each report will page break between each student when multiple students are selected. We have also added the comment field to display the comment you recorded when recording the status on the Record Progress-Planning screen. These changes will make it much easier to track homework/classwork.

• Initial screen - Tips, with the date the tip was added, are displayed. Below the tips the renewal date for the selected classroom is displayed. To view Tips and Renewal date after selecting a menu option, click the MRX logo in the lower left corner.
• Record/Plan - Review Plan : Multiple students can be selected when choosing either the "Presented not Practicing" or "Practicing not Mastered" options.
  

• All screens - Name pulldown: Added "No Student Activity this week", "No Presentations this week" and "No Plans this week". The "No Student Activity this week" option will display only those students who have not had any Practicing or Mastered statuses recorded for them between Monday and Sunday of the current week. The "No Presentations this week" option will display only those students who have not had any presentations recorded for them between Monday and Sunday of the current week. The "No Plans this week" option will display only those students who have not had any works/lessons planned for them between Monday and Sunday of the current week.
• All screens - Email Reports: On the Email Reports window that appears after displaying a report and clicking the Email Report button, the Student's email address is included in list of Email Recipients immediately after any Individual email addresses.
• Student Info - Cumulative Record: Added a "All Works/Lessons" checkbox. When selected, not only the lessons presented, practiced or mastered appear on the report, all lessons in that class appear, too. This report now includes both active and inactive works/lessons and is in order by Area and within Area by Sequence.
• Student Info - Student Activity: Multiple students can be selected at the same time.
• Conference - Report Comments: When selecting a Category, the Concepts and their assigned Works/Lessons appear in the grid at the bottom of the screen titled "Students statuses for Concepts in Selected Category" in the order they will appear on the conference report.
• Administration - Student Assignments: Added "Add Student" button to allow MRX administrators to add a new student without assigning them to a class.
• Login screen - Displays new graphics, links to material companies, recent upgrades, tips and news.
  

• Attendance - Attendance Reports: Corrected error where the summary section of the Summary & Detail report was not appearing.
• Conference - Generate Report: Corrected error that occurred when clicking Preview Report button twice. The Preview Report and the Preview Report are now hidden while waiting for a report to appear.
• Conference - Generate Report: Since Report Card type conference reports can only be non-cumulative, only the non-cumulative option appears for a Report Card type conference report on the Report Parameters popup window..
• Conference - Design Report: Added checkbox titled 'Allow others to copy reports' below Report list that allows others to view and copy your report designs.
• Conference - Design Report: Added ability to add a description for each Category on any conference report.
• Conference - Design Report: Added Spell Check button for Category and Concept lists.

• Conference - Generate Report: Added ability to generate a cumulative or non-cumulative report.
• Conference - Generate Report: Added ability to display Works/Lessons only if progress has been recorded for them.
• Conference - Generate Report: Added ability to display Presentations only if progress has been recorded for them.
• Conference - Design Report: Increased the size of each legend field to 70 characters.

• Attendance - Take Attendance: Corrected problem where student and staff were not appearing in the list.
• Student Info - Allergies-Medications: Added Physical Impairment and Emergency Contacts.
• Conference - Design Report: Now only lessons appear in the All Active Works/Lessons grid that are not assigned to the selected Concept.
• Conference - Design Report: Added ability to delete more than one assignment to a Concept at one time.
• Administration - Student Assignments: Corrected problem where only the Withdrawal tab appeared when clicking the Student Info button.
• Administration - Add-Update Works-Lessons: Corrected problem where the Move button disappeared when the grid was not sorted in ascending alphabetic order on Sequence.

• Attendance - Attendance: Added ability to remove attendance taken for students. Added Group selector.
• Attendance - Attendance Reports: Added No Attendance column to all reports.
• Administration - Students: Determines whether a student has already been entered based on first, middle and last name instead of just first and last name.
• Administration - Individuals: Added new screen that allows the entry of multiple phone numbers and allows MRX administrators to delete an individual.
• Administration - Student Assignments: Allow MRX administrators to delete a student.
• Administration - Groups: Corrected problem when changing group name and when deleting group.
• Administration - Add-Update Works-Lessons: Corrected problem when changing Area to 'Select an Area' the Add button was not appearing.
• Administration - Copy Works-Lessons: Added Email feature that displays email window with all staff member's email addresses for the selected classroom so a teacher can ask staff about how to present a lesson.

• Login : Prevent passwords with backslashes.
• Menus: Change titles of menus from Record Progress to Record Progress/Planning and Planning Info to Review Planning.
• Attendance - Attendance Reports: Remove staff members from the Summary-School and Absent-School reports.
• Record/Plan - Record Progress/Planning: Improved performance. When multiple students are selected and statuses are selected, the dates for all students in grid on left appear much faster.
• Record/Plan - Record Progress/Planning: Corrected problem that occurred when selecting multiple students or all students before an Area is selected (the retrieve message displayed indefinitely).
• Record/Plan - Record Progress/Planning: Corrected error that occurred when first opening Record Progress screen and selecting a Student then an Area, no status appeared for the Highest Status or Most Recent Status fields.
• Conference - Copy Report: Corrected problems that occurred when selecting "Select a level", "Select a class" or "Select a report".
• Administration - Students: Corrected problem that occurred when navigating from the Attendance Report screen to Students screen, staff members name's where in the Name list.
• Administration - Students: Added messages indicating when Short Name, Social Security Number, Student's City, Zip Code, Email, Home Phone, Work Phone or Cell Phone were too long.
• Administration - Students: When selecting an individual from the Copy Address From pulldown, the Home Phone is now copied, too.
• Administration - Groups: Prevent adding new group until first add is saved.
• Administration - Groups: When adding a new group, keep new group name selected.
• Administration - Copy Works-Lessons: Corrected problems that occurred when selecting "Select a level", "Select a class" or "Select a report".
• Administration - Update School-Class-Staff: Select Institution and display institution info at open.
• Administration - Student Assignments: Improved performance of inactivating a student.

• The Basic tab contains the old student information plus Religious Exemption, Parental Relationship, Student address, a pulldown that allows you to select an Individual's information to copy to the student's address, Student email, and Student phone numbers.
• The Relationships tab stores all the relationships a student has with other individuals at the school like their mother, father, aunts and uncles. Through the button 'Individual Info' on this tab you can enter parent email addresses and mailing addresses. This tab is divided into 2 sections - Current Relationships and Individuals in School. From the Individuals in School list you can select and associate an individual with a student. Once associated, you can indicate the following: Type of relationship, Emergency Contact Sequence, Emergency Contact Phone #, Whether they are an Emergency Contact, Whether they are Financially Responsibility, Whether they should be contacted in case of a Disaster, Whether they can Pick Up the student You can also add new individuals from this tab.
• The Medical tab contains allergies and medications but also includes: Physician contact information, Dentist contact information, The ability to copy Physician and Dentist contact information from another student, Physical Impairments/Medical Conditions, Medical Exemption
• The Education tab contains the IEP checkbox and the Years in Montessori fields.
• The Withdrawal tab allows you to inactivate a student and to collect the following information about the student's withdrawal: Reason for withdrawal, Comment, Withdrawal Date, Whether they withdrew at the end of a cycle, Number of years at school, The location of their new school, Name of new school, Whether records were sent to new school, Whether the new school is public or private, Type of new school
• The Alumni tab allows you to store contact information about alumni and contact notes. It includes the following information: Whether the alumnus can be contacted via email, phone or mail, Email address, Phone number, Mailing address, Comment.

• Email popup: Removed the ability to CC and BCC individuals due to spam filter preventing large numbers of email to be sent.
• Conference - Report Comments: Redesigned the layout of the screen and added message that no new comment can be added.
• Administration - Email: Removed the ability to CC and BCC individuals due to spam filter preventing large numbers of email to be sent.

• Conference - Generate Report: Corrected problem where Works/Lessons were not appearing that had no progress recorded for them if "Include Concepts w/o Status" was not check and either "Include Works/Less" or "Include Presentations" were checked.
• Conference - Generate Report: Removed on all footers the phrase "of [total pages] pages".

• Attendance - Attendance Reports: Corrected problem which caused an error when emailing a report.
• Student Info - Allergies-Medications: Turned off the display of a PDF version of the report when emailing the list since it was a duplicate.
• Student Info - Birthday List: Turned off the display of a PDF version of the report when emailing the list since it was a duplicate.
• Student Info - Student Activity: Corrected problem where comments were not appearing on the PDF version of the report.
• Conference - Report Comments: Corrected problem where the message "Your information is being retrieved" appeared and did not go away when selecting a different student.
• Conference - Report Comments: Corrected problem that allowed multiple comments to be added for the same student and school period that led to an error when generating a conference report.
• Administration - Add-Update Works-Lessons: Corrected problem when adding album page that occurred when selecting a file by double-click the file name in the popup. This led to an album page being associated to the wrong work/lesson.
• Administration - Staff List: Turned off the display of a PDF version of the Staff List when emailing the list since it was a duplicate.

• Attendance - Attendance Reports: Corrected problem where the "To" and "From" calendars were partially hidden when a report was already displayed.
• Attendance - Attendance Reports: On the "From" and "To" date calendar, arrows were added below the month and year that decrements or increments date one year each time clicked.
• Record/Plan - Record Progress: Corrected problem when resorting student names by "Age-Des" the message "Your information is being retrieved" would not disappear.
• Student Info - Student Activity: Corrected problem where the "To" and "From" calendars were partially hidden when a report was already displayed.
• Student Info - Student Activity: On the "From" and "To" date calendar, arrows were added below the month and year that decrements or increments date one year each time clicked.
• Conference - Design Report: Extended the number of characters that can be entered for each Legend field from 12 to 25.
• Administration - Students: Added a calendar for the student birth date.
• Administration - Students: On the student birth date calendar, arrows were added below the month and year that decrements or increments date one year each time clicked.
• Administration - Students: Added 3 new ethnicities: African American/White/Anglo, Asian/White/Anglo and Latino/White/Anglo.

• Record/Plan - Record Progress: Added a Select All button (titled "All") below Name list that will select all names currently appearing in the Name list.
• Record/Plan - Record Progress: Added Grades-Asc and Grades-Des options in the pulldown below the Name list.
• Record/Plan - Record Progress: Selecting a status for a Work/Lesson now selects that Work/Lesson and displays in the Name list the dates for each student.
• Conference - Report Comments: Corrected problem where school periods where missing from previous Category comments.

• All screens with reports: Added a 'Preview Report as PDF' option that creates a PDF version of the report in a new window or tab.
• Record/Plan - Record Progress: Added a status button that will deselect a status selected by mistake.
• Record/Plan - Record Progress: Returned the ability to sort the Works/Lesson grid by any column.
• Record/Plan - Record Progress: Returned the ability to display the entire text in a cell in the Works/Lessons grid by placing ones cursor over the cell.
• Conference - Report Comments: Removed the Period pulldown in the Comments grid in the upper right corner which was causing some subscribers to create a report comment for the wrong period.
• Administration - Groups: New screen where custom groups within a class are defined and edited.
• All screens with Name list: Changed sorting of Name list to a pulldown with the options of Name ascending, Name descending, Age ascending, Age descending and each grade students are defined as on the Students screen (Administration menu). Any custom groups created on the Groups screen (Administration menu) appear in the list. When selecting an option in this pulldown, either the total list of active students in the class are sorted or if a grade or custom group is selected, only the students in that grade or group appear in the Name list.

• History screen: Added the ability to delete on the History screen (launched from the Record Progress, Planning Information or Report Comments screens) one or more statuses you have record by mistake.
• Student Info - Student Activity: Added the ability to delete one or more statuses when Viewing Data.

• Record/Plan - Record Progress: Prevent a score containing anything other than up to 3 numbers, a decimal place and one decimal place.
• Record/Plan - Student Notes: Corrected error that occurred when adding a new note, clicking the Spell Check button and the word "undefined" appeared in Spell Check window.
• Record/Plan - Planning Information: Prevent a score containing anything other than up to 3 numbers, a decimal place and one decimal place.
• Student Info - Student Activity: Error message appears if you attempt to View Date, Preview Report or Export to Excel when no statuses are selected in Step 3 "Select Info to Include:".
• Conference - Design Report: Status Setting Methods for each Concept was backwards on the "Categories, Concepts and Assigned Works/Lessons" report.
• Conference - Design Report: When deleting Categories, Concepts or Assigned Works/Lesson, MRX was not re sequencing the remaining items. MRX now re sequences Categories, Concepts and Assigned Works/Lessons after deletes.
• Administration - Update School-Class-Staff: Added Canadian provinces to the State pulldown for Institution and School information.

• Most screens: Changed colors slightly to make it easier to navigate within screens.
• Student Info - Cumulative Record: Can now preview or email this report showing a student's progress achieved in prior classrooms. Can limit report to a specific Area.
• Student Info - Student Activity: Can now preview, email or export to Excel this report showing a student's statuses and Work/Lesson comments achieved in prior classrooms.
• Conference - Generate Report: Added option titled "Include Neither" to allow the de selection of the "Include Works/Lessons" or "Include Presentations" options.
• Conference - Copy Report: When copying a report, the assignments of any assigned Works/Lessons that match Works/Lessons in your classroom will now be copied. The assigned Work/Lesson must match Works/Lesson in your class with identical Area, Topic, Presentation and Work/Lesson fields.
• Administration - Copy Works/Lessons: Select one or more Works/Lessons to be copied by clicking one or more rows instead of using the Select checkbox. To copy Works/Lessons, click the Copy button below the grid on the right instead of the Save button.
• Administration - Reusable Comments: New screen appears when clicking the Sample Reusable Comments button. The new screen displays a distinct list of all comments entered by teachers in the MRX community for the type of Reusable Comment selected in the Comment Type pulldown on the Reusable Comments screen. One or more Reusable Comments can be selected and copied by clicking the Copy button below the grid on the right.

• Most screens: Most screens and all reports can now be scrolled by using the scroll wheel found on most mice.
• Most screens: When sorting the Name list found on most screens by Grade, students are sorted by grade and within grade in ascending alphabetic short name order.

• Conference - Generate Report: Added "Include Presentation" under "Select Info to Include". All Presentations will display, with statuses if this option is chosen.
• Conference - Generate Report: Report will display signatures based on what has been entered on the Report Design screen (Click Parameters button below Report list).
• Conference - Generate Report: Either Works/Lessons (if "Include Works/Lessons" is selected) or Presentations (if "Include Presentations" is selected) will be in sequence, based on sequencing set on the Design Report screen.
• Conference - Design Report: Parameters for a report (report type, symbols vs words, legend and abbreviations) have been moved to a popup window accessed by selecting a report name and clicking the Parameters button below the report list. 8 signature fields have been added to allow you to control which and how many signature fields are displayed on the report.
• Conference - Design Report: Assigned Works/Lessons can now be sequenced using the up and down arrows added to the right of the Assigned Works/Lessons grid.
• Conference - Design Report: More than one Work/Lesson can be assigned to a Concept at one time.
• Administration - Reusable Comments: Corrected problem where grid turned white when attempting to add a new comment.

• Administration - Student Assignments: New screen. Allows MRX Administrators to manage their student rosters. MRX Administrators can assign and remove students from classes and inactivate and activate students within their school. They can view demographics for their whole school or each individual class.

• Conference - Generate Report: If Include Works/Lessons is selected and Include Concepts W/O Statuses is not selected, Works/Lessons without statuses for the select school period(s) will not appear on the report.

• Attendance - Attendance Reports: Added new report for MRX administrators that shows Summary Attendance report for entire school.
• Attendance - Attendance Reports: Added new report for MRX administrators that shows an Absent Attendance report for entire school.
• Conference - Report Comments: Added Period Start and Period end dates to Period pulldown.
• Conference - Generate Report: Display error message when no Works/Lessons have been assigned to any Concepts.
• Conference - Generate Report: Display error message when no statuses have been set for a student as of the School Period(s) selected on any Works/Lessons assigned to any Concepts.
• Administration - Student: Correct problem where when adding a student the Student ID, IEP (Individual Education Plan) and Sibling at school field was not being saved.

• Conference - Design Report: Correct sort order of School Period pulldown.
• Conference - Report Comments: Prevent a blank comment from being saved.
• Conference - Design Report: Changed Topic to Category to avoid confusion with Works/Lessons.
• Conference - Copy Report: Added Training Center to the list of Levels if your classroom is a training center.
• Administration - Student: Added Student ID, IEP (Individual Education Plan) and Sibling at school field.
• Administration - Copy Works/Lessons: Added Training Center to the list of Levels if your classroom is a training center.
• Administration - Reusable Comments: Prevent blank comments from being save which caused grid to go white.
• Help: Added or updated movies for the following screens - Planning Information, Report Comments. Generate Report, Update School-Class-Staff.

• Record/Plan - Record Progress: References to the 4 status of Planned, Presented, Practicing, Mastered are now determined by what an MRX administrator has set them to on the Update School-Class-Staff screen.
• Record/Plan - Student Notes: References to the 4 status of Planned, Presented, Practicing, Mastered are now determined by what an MRX administrator has set them to on the Update School-Class-Staff screen.
• Record/Plan - Planning: References to the 4 status of Planned, Presented, Practicing, Mastered are now determined by what an MRX administrator has set them to on the Update School-Class-Staff screen.
• Student Info - Student Activity: References to the 4 status of Planned, Presented, Practicing, Mastered are now determined by what an MRX administrator has set them to on the Update School-Class-Staff screen.
• Conference - Design Report: Corrected sort order of Topics and Concepts on the Preview Conference Report option on the Report pulldown to match the order on the Design Report screen.
• Administration - Students: After each Add of a student the fields will be cleared and hidden.
• All reports: The Name on Reports field will display when any report is generated by an MRX administrator.
• Help: Added or updated movies for the following screens - Take Attendance, Record Progress, Student Notes, Add-Update Works-Lessons.