I know that I am into the Autumn season, not only because my beloved Philadelphia Eagles have started their season, but because my phone has been silent for the last thirty minutes! That means that the August/September rush is drawing to a close, and I hope you are having a wonderful start to the '09-'10 school year.
Now that almost all of our schools are up-and-running, we are focusing on incorporating our teacher feedback into the major upgrades that we are releasing over the next few months.
It seems that you've wasted no time with the updates we've made already. While taking Support calls, I've seen that lots of teachers have started using the To-Do List feature of the OnCourse Dashboard - it seems to be the most popular widget so far! I've also seen that the Reoccuring Events feature of the Calendar is being used quite a bit.
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That makes me very optimistic that our upgrades to the Documents Library and Lesson Planner will be well-received. We've taken extreme care that the program functions stay consistent, even though we are making major changes in the background. Then, in the Documents Library for example, we've re-worked the whole system, however it will look even MORE familiar now because it mimics your operating system.
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One suggestion we heard loud and clear at the beginning of the school year was, "CAN WE HAVE SOME NEW WEBSITE THEMES??!"
We immediately got on the task, and now there are a handful of new themes and headers in the Website Designer, with more on the way.
Tip Of The Week: I received a question at the beginning of the year about adding custom headers to the website. Because the space of the header is limited, we definitely recommend using one of the headers we have built
already, because it fits so nice and snug right in the frame!! However, if you insist: go to your Design Assistant > Category : Colors > and choose a blank color header to match your site. Save that. Then click the Edit Pencil on the header and add a picture just like you would to the main body of your site.
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Have a great weekend everyone!
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