Application
Overview
School
Plan Management (Plan4Me)
facilitates the creation, modification, retrieval and presentation of
word processed and graphical school
planning
documentation in a
compressed
database format, which follows the principle
concepts and
requirements for BS EN ISO9000 Quality system compliance.
Data compression is
used to enable a
significant amount of information to be retained and accessed quickly,
including the updated complete
schemes of
work with graphics for
all subjects and the
full National Curriculum.
The record sorting, export
and import facilities enable document
groups to be selected and
transferred between PC's to
facilitate home
working.
STplans exported to
floppy disk on your school
system
may be Imported,
modified and printed
using the FREE version
on another/home
based PC.
There is no program restriction as to the number of documents retained
nor the number of
user names.
Revised software and Plan
data (including updated schemes of work) may be downloaded
FREE
from web site. Using Preview,
previously saved
school Plans/graphics/reports
may be
loaded, viewed and printed by all
versions including the FREE version.
Pupil records,
including attainment and attendance,
are
integrated within the extended version of the program with report and
benchmark data being created and compared automatically to national
tables.
Conceptual design is by Teachers
for the Teacher
and aims at being user friendly,
however,
a teacher's duties are not simple
and so during normal
program operation
context sensitive help
is available by
pressing the function key F1.
The Search for Help on ... option
in the Help menu enables keywords and individual words to
be found within the support documentation.
School Plan Management features are available via three programs,
Plan4MeLite, Plan4Me and Plan4MeFull. There are a number of version
categories which provide progressive functionality when using these
programs.
WordFile4Me, the word processor with nine different stages/faces to
simplify pupil instuction, along with the Thesaurus/Dictionary are
integrated within all three programs, with WordBase being included from
the Plan4Me.
Plan
data is divided into Long, Medium and Short Term Plan screens with 'send' facilities for
data transfer, plus auto duplication facilities to ease
the
Plan/Evaluate/Re-Plan process and therefore
obviate the need to rewrite or type copy from government/published
data.
Scheme Graphics are auto accessed from plan
documents when using the Presentation
Manager.
For security and data integrity reasons registered
access to the program is via a Password panel. Edit/delete
facilities are only available if the Plan Teacher field and user name
are identical, unless program
accessed using the system administrator's 'Teacher Name'. Names and
passwords are created initially during Registration but thereafter
passwords can be changed by the individual and new 'Teacher Names' can
be issued by the system administrator. There is
no limit set in the program as to the number of Teachers who can use
the system.
When the Logon procedure is completed, initially the Short Term Plan
window is visible and access to the other windows, for example, Medium
Term Plan, Long Term
Plan, WordBase, and WordFile is via window menu selection or by use of
the Next button. Subsequent use returns to the
window in view
when the program was last closed.
For details on Plan4Me and its uses, click the underlined text or the
Index or Contents button of this 'Help'
window and browse or search for the subject you are interested in.
For assistance see Getting Started, Basic Controls, and Tutorials. If
entering your own reference
documents then an understanding of Primary Keys and how to avoid key
violation may help.
