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The Progress Report Vers:Shareware A Tool for Educators (C) Copyright 1993 by AP Software PO Box 205 Westford, Massachusetts 01886 (508) 692-3726 System Requirements: PC/XT/AT or Compatible 256 K RAM DOS 2.1 or greater Sample Report: Your Schoolname --------------- PROGRESS REPORT STUDENT : name SUBJECT : subject name DATE : date TEACHER : teacher name ACADEMIC YEAR : year The following is a detailed analysis of this student's performance. COMMENTS FOR PROGRESS REPORT 1 Comment 1 15 Comment 15 2 Comment 2 16 Comment 16 3 Comment 3 17 Comment 17 4 Comment 4 18 Comment 18 5 Comment 5 19 Comment 19 6 Comment 6 20 Comment 20 7 Comment 7 21 Comment 21 8 Comment 8 22 Comment 22 9 Comment 9 23 Comment 23 10 Comment 10 24 Comment 24 11 Comment 11 25 Comment 25 12 Comment 12 26 Comment 26 13 Comment 13 27 Comment 27 14 Comment 14 28 Comment 28 An asterisk (*) indicates comments selected by the teacher. ADDITIONAL TEACHER COMMENTS 1. Your individualized comment Grade Cat ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### Average ###.# Upon request the teacher will be glad to give more information. Comment/Response : ____________________________________________________ (space for parental response) _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ Signature_______________________________ Date_______________________________ Registration Cost: $35 (check or money order) Disk Format: 3 1/2 or 5 1/4 available. Please specify. Payable to: A.P. Software Address: PO Box 205 Westford, Massachusetts 01886 (508) 692-3726 The purchaser may use this program for a trial period long enough to determine whether this program will be useful in their profession. If it is decided that the program is not useful, the purchaser may either erase the program, destroy the disk, or pass the shareware program on to another individual. If it is decided that the program is useful, the purchaser must register with A.P. Software. By registering, the purchaser will receive the latest version of The Progress Report and be entitled to telephone support at (508) 692 - 3726 Registration entitles the user to the latest version of The Progress Report. The additional features available on the registered version include: Edit capability for 28 progress comments. Two (2) individualized teacher comments. Three (3) categories of grades with weighting and a Weighted Average. Optional addition of telephone number of teacher. Three (3) lines of general text, with editing capability, at the bottom of all progress reports. Ability to print a single blank report. Ability to print a student "Quick Report". Printing of a summary report for the teachers use. Ability to selectively delete class reports. Removal of the introductory shareware screen 1.0 Introduction ---------------- The Progress Report 3.0 is an easy to use tool for creating, saving, printing and retrieving student progress reports. It is designed to be used by the classroom teacher with up to 5 different classes of 36 students each. A teacher enters his/her own particular data (schoolname, year, etc.). Classes are created and student names are entered. A set of progress reports for that class, is then created and saved. The set may be printed out in its entirety or as individual reports. Each class can have up to 8 different sets of reports. The progress report features a selection of 28 preinstalled comments. One additional individualized comment may be entered for each student. Additionally, the instructor may elect to enter up to 8 individual grades. They are then averaged together. A.P. Software assumes no responsibility or liability for use of this program. All comments , suggestions and enhancements for future versions should be sent to A.P. Software at the above address. 2.0 Program Operation ----------------------- One Drive System - Boot your system with your DOS disk. Place the Progress Report disk in drive A. Type TPR3SW and hit the return key. Hard Drive System - Create a subdirectory and copy all files from the Progress Report disk to it. Type TPR3SW and hit the return key. Enter todays date (or the date you want to appear in the reports). Use a three letter abbreviation for month. (EX: Jan or JAN). The year cannot be greater than 2100. When you are done, hit return. The Main menu will appear. 3.0 Main Menu --------------- The Main Menu contains 6 choices. They are as follows: 1. Run Initial Set Up Procedure - Enter and edit teachername, schoolname, and academic year. 2. Create/Edit Class Information - Enter/edit classname, and studentnames. 3. Create Progress Reports - Enter data for new set of reports or continue with an incomplete set. 4. Print Progress Reports - Print an entire class of reports or one individual report. 5. Delete Class Information/Progress Reports - Delete all classes and reports. 6. End this program - return to DOS. 4.0 Run Initial Set Up Procedure -------------------------------- 4.1 Enter/Edit Teacher - This allows the entry of the name of the teacher using The Progress Report. A maximum of 25 characters is allowed. Hitting RETURN, with no characters entered, or hitting ESC cancels the name change operation, leaving the original intact. 4.2 Enter/Edit Schoolname - This allows entry of the school of the teacher using The Progress Report. A maximum of 30 characters is allowed. Hitting RETURN, with no characters entered, or hitting ESC cancels the name change operation, leaving the original intact. 4.3 Enter/Edit Academic Year - This allows entry of the current academic year. A maximum of 10 characters is allowed. Hitting RETURN, with no characters entered, or hitting ESC cancels the year change operation, leaving the original intact. 4.4 Return to Main Menu - All data is saved and control return to the Main Menu. 5.0 Create/Edit Class Information/Student Data ---------------------------------------------- 5.1 Create a New Class - The next available class (numbers 1-5) is selected automatically and a series of questions are asked. They are: Class/Subject Name 20 Character max. The Class/Subject name is the name of the course. Student names are then entered. The maximum length is 25 characters. To stop entering names and return control to the previous menu, hit RETURN without entering any name. There is a maximum of 36 names for each class. Use of ESC, at any time, will cancel this procedure and return control to the to previous menu. 5.2 Edit an Existing Class - Allows the editing of any data previously entered for any class. The user must select a class number (1-5). ESC, RETURN or 9 will return to previous menu. User may then do the following: 5.2.1 View Class Information - Allows user to view all the current data (classname and student names) about the selected class. 5.2.2 Edit the classname - The maximum length is 20 characters. RETURN, with no characters entered, or ESC will cancel this operation and return control to previous menu. 5.2.3 Add a Student - The maximum length is 25 characters. To return control to the previous menu, hit RETURN without entering any name. ESC will cancel the current entry and return control to the previous menu. 5.2.4 Edit a Student - A student number from 1-36 must be selected. If RETURN is hit without entering a number, control returns to the previous menu. ESC returns control to the previous menu. The current name is then displayed. To edit, just enter a new name. If RETURN is hit, without entering a change, or ESC, the name remains unchanged and control returns to the previous menu. 5.2.5 Delete a Student - A student number from 1-36 must be selected. If RETURN is hit without entering a number, control returns to the previous menu. ESC returns control to the previous menu. The current name is then displayed. To delete, just answer Y. To cancel the deletion, enter N. If ESC or RETURN are hit, instead of Y/N, the deletion is cancelled. Control is returned to the previous menu. The verification question is always asked. 5.2.6 Return to Main menu - Class information is saved and control returns to the main menu. 6.0 Create Progress Reports --------------------------- User MUST select a class (1-5). Classes must be defined prior to selection. See 5.1. ESC, RETURN or 9 will return control to the Main menu. 6.1 Create New Reports - Allows user to create a full set of progress reports for the selected class. Up to 8 different sets of reports can be created for each class. If more reports are desired, the user must delete an existing set. See 8.0. Student names, from the selected class, are automatically placed on screen. The user has 4 choices for each name. A-Accept name and create a report R-Reject name and advance to next student S-Save current entered information and complete this report session another time. ESC-Cancel all entries made for this set of reports during this working session. A verification question is asked before control is returned to the class selection menu 6.0. If A-Accept is chosen, comment numbers, grades and individualized comments are then entered. Comment selection is displayed on screen and allows a choice of selections 1 thru 28. A maximum of 24 of the 28 comments may be selected, for any one progress report. Hitting Return, with no comment # selection, completes the entries for comments and advances to the Test Grade option. ESC cancels the current entry and advances to a data verification question. The Test Grade option appears next. Up to 8 test grades may be entered. These grades and their average will appear on the progress report. Hitting Return, for grades 2 through 7, without a grade entry or entering grade 8 advances to the Teacher Comment. ESC cancels the current entry and advances to the data verification question. The last item to enter is the additional individualized teacher comment. You may use up to 75 characters to create 1 individual comment for each student. RETURN advances to the verification question. ESC cancels the current entry and advances to the data verification question. You are asked to verify the data. A "Y" continues to the next student. A "N" allows you to re-enter the data for the student you are currently working on. This process is repeated for each student in the selected class. If R-Reject is chosen, no report is generated for this student and the next student name is retrieved. If S-Save is chosen, all current entered data is saved, and control passes to the previous menu. This data may be retrieved at a later time to continue the process of creating reports. When all students in a class have been utilized for a set of reports, the report data is automatically saved. The current date is used to identify this set of reports. All data from the initial set up, except school and teacher name, is saved along with the student data. This allows the user to retrieve and reprint these reports exactly as they were created. Future reports can have different initial set ups, not affecting previously created reports. 6.2 Continue With Previous Set of Reports - Allows user to complete a previously started, but incomplete, set of reports. The report status of each of the 8 report sessions is displayed and a selection of 1-8 for continuation must be made. RETURN , ESC or 9 returns control to the previous menu. The incomplete session are identified by INC preceeding the date. All completed sessions are identified by date only. Once a session is selected, the program resumes the process of creating new reports (6.1), starting where it left off due to a previous S-Save. When all students in a class have been utilized for a set of reports, the report data is automatically saved. The current date is used to identify this set of reports. 6.3 Return to Previous Menu 7.0 Print Progress Reports -------------------------- Allows printing of previously created reports. The F10 key can be used to cancel printing. 7.1 Print Reports from a Class - Allows selection of a class and set of reports for printing. Only completed report sessions can be printed. Completed reports can be identified by the date which they were created. First a class selection (1-5) must be made. Then selection of a report session (1-8) must be made. RETURN , ESC or 9 returns control to each previous menu. Selecting 1-8 will return the following option menu. 7.1.1 Print Individual Reports - This allows the selection of individual reports for printing. A class list is displayed with an * located next to the names of students that have had reports created for them. Reports are printed by selecting a student number from 1-36. Hitting RETURN, without entering a number returns control to the previous menu. ESC returns control to the menu decribed in 7.0. 7.1.2 Print Class Reports Only - This will print the entire set of the reports created on the selected date. Please make sure that there is enough paper available. 7.1.3 Return to previous menu 7.2 Return to Main Menu 8.0 Delete Class Information/Progress Reports --------------------------------------------- The user is asked to verify all deletion requests before deletions are performed. ESC, RETURN or 9 returns control to the previous menu. Delete All 5 Classes and All Reports - Allows the deletion of all stored data regarding all 5 classes and their reports. This can be used in preparation of starting a new year. 9.0 End this Program -------------------- Returns control to DOS level. 10.0 Files --------- A.P. Software has placed 50 files on the shareware disk. Your shareware vendor may have placed additional files. There are 47 files necesary for the operation of The Progress Report. They are: TPR3SW.EXE , TPR3.DAT CLASS1, CLASS2, CLASS3, CLASS4, CLASS5, CLASS1.R1 thru CLASS1.R8, CLASS2.R1 thru CLASS2.R8, CLASS3.R1 thru CLASS3.R8, CLASS4.R1 thru CLASS4.R8, and CLASS5.R1 thru CLASS5.R8. TPR3SW.DOC is the documentation README.DOC is the registration and introductory information README.BAT is the batch file to run README.DOC 11.0 Hard Disk Installation --------------------------- The Progress Report 3.0 is not copy protected. To install on a hard disk, just copy all files listed in 10.0 to a separate sub directory. 12.0 Pre-Installed Progress Comments ------------------------------------ The following 28 comments are already loaded in TPR3SW. You may only change them with the registered version. 1. Shows understanding of concepts 2. Shows enthusiasm for subject 3. Is mature and responsible 4. Excellent classroom behavior 5. Excellent attitude towards learning 6. Has shown much improvement 7. Is very cooperative 8. Is exceptionally capable 9. Works well independently 10. Is talented in subject area 11. Aids positive learning atmosphere 12. Shows sincere effort 13. Is a good consistent student 14. Is an asset to the class 15. Work is incomplete 16. Tests are below requirements 17. Does not prepare homework regularly 18. Failure to report for makeup work 19. Work carelessly done 20. Should improve quality of work 21. Failure to report for extra help 22. Frequently absent or tardy 23. Indifferent attitude 24. Disruptive conduct 25. Not working to potential 26. Arrange for parental conference 27. Has had previous reports sent home 28. This is the 1st 2nd 3rd 4th report -------------------- With your help we can continue to improve The Progress Report. Please send all comments, suggestions and enhancement ideas to: A.P. Software, PO Box 205 , Westford, Mass. 01886 ***** If you have a small or home business, you may be interested in our two other products, The Simple Bookkeeper and The Billing Statement. The Simple Bookkeeper is the easiest single entry bookkeeping system available. It tracks income and expenses of a small or home business for an entire year and produces three different reports. The Billing Statement is an intuitive, easy to use program for creating standard form billing statements on plain or letterhead stationery. It produces two different reports. Both of these programs are intuitive, easy to operate and do not require any accounting or computer expertise. Ask your shareware distributor for a copy. We distribute them under the title of BUSINESSKIT. If they don't have it, have them call or write and we will send them a copy. Registered versions and information are available from A.P. Software. (508) 692-3726. are available from A.P. Software. (508) 692-3726.