Search results matching tag 'calendar'

Ensure Your Attendance Cycle Days are Correct After Labor Day

309508C7-B51C-415E-8F34-219403B952EE — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:13:00 GMT

If school is out on Labor Day, ensure your attendance days will be correct when you return by skipping Labor Day on the Configuration scheduling calendar.

When you add a date on the Scheduling Calendar tab of the Academic Year, you are prompted to add the dates to the Session Scheduling Calendar. When you click Yes, you are prompted to mark those dates as in session or skip them. If you mark In Session, the cycle days will remain in order and you can enter attendance for those dates; an example would be Awards Day when classes are still meeting. If you mark the Skip? checkbox, the next date in session starts with the cycle day of the skipped date. If you do not mark either of those checkboxes, the schedule will resume as usual.

For example, if classes are out for Labor Day, enter September 7 on your scheduling calendar. If you want Tuesday's schedule to resume as usual, leave the Skip? checkbox unmarked. If you want the attendance cycle for Monday to meet on the Tuesday, mark the Skip? checkbox.

An easy way to double check your cycle is to click the Calendar icon in the session's Calendar. You'll see each cycle day listed beside the date.

If you return from Labor Day and your attendance dates are off, you can still reset the cycle days. In the Date column, enter the date to set as an exception to the cycle sequence. For example, if Labor Day was entered, enter the first day back to class as your exception date. Mark the In Session checkbox. In the Cycle Day column, select the new cycle day for the date. This resets the sequence of subsequent dates in the scheduling calendar.

Note: If attendance entries exist for the reset date or dates afterward, you will receive the message "Error: Attendance already exists on or after this date and Scheduling calendar entries cannot be created, changed, or deleted". Refer to Knowledgebase solution BB193070 for steps to resolve the message.

It's not too late to skip cycle days for your future holidays.

search capabilities

5DB30DED-994B-47BF-9033-8B37B7FDC8B1 — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:02:52 GMT

I want to set up our events calendar so it can be searched in a variety of ways (e.g. by participant name, by event name, by the name of the person being honoured, by date, etc.) They tell me that the calendar has no search capability. Has anyone done something like this, and, if so, how? Thanks.

Scheduling Calendar...what? who? when? where? why?

B3AA5EB3-E4F5-48BB-909A-80F859616220 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:00:00 GMT

Happy New Year! Working with schools, I have found that a New Year brings different adventures. In high schools, Seniors have a full case of Senioritis, Juniors know they will soon be the head of the school, Sophomores are one step closer to graduating, and Freshman know they are only one semester away from picking on the new class of Frosh. As the snow days start and spring break looms on the horizon; it is a great time to start thinking about your scheduling calendar. "What?" you say…"scheduling calendar?" Let’s look at the what, who, when, where, and why on this crazy thing called the scheduling calendar (don’t forget to get out your magnifying glasses).

What: I think it is the most important aspect of the calendar and after all, I am the blogger. The scheduling calendar lists the dates when your school is in session with classes, when they are in session without classes, and when the students are out of session.

Who: With "what" out of the way, we can tackle the rest. It is a good idea to have your Registrar take a look at the scheduling calendar at the beginning of every semester and prior to any school holiday.

When: I've already covered that one with who; I’m a little tricky like that.

Where: The scheduling calendar is located in the session for every academic year. When you open the academic year in Configuration, open the session and select the Scheduling Calendar tab. Enter the dates that your school is not in session or is in an irregular session, such as a holiday break. If you would like to see the total academic year in calendar grid form, click the calendar icon to open a year calendar with important terms dates that are entered into the system.

Why: This is a big one! If term events are not entered into the system, your attendance will be affected. For example, if Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is not entered on the Scheduling Calendar and you have that day off; teachers will be able to enter attendance on this day.

If you have a rotating schedule, and your Monday classes are supposed to be shifted to Tuesday and all classes going forward are supposed to be shifted, the system will not know to do this unless the Martin Luther King, Jr. date is entered and "Skip?" is marked on the Scheduling Calendar tab. If "Skip?" is marked, this can affect attendance if you have Cycle Days named after the days of the week; before you know it, a Tuesday will be named Monday on your scheduling calendar.

For more information on this topic, check out:
How to select, readjust, or skip a specific cycle day: BB131632
Holiday calendar entry reflects school is in session: BB143889
How to define calendar events: BB131631

One last thing to leave you with: After future attendance has been entered, you can't update the scheduling calendar. This is because the attendance would have to be shifted to a different day, and the program won't know what attendance codes to enter for the future dates. In order to change the scheduling calendar for a day that attendance exists, the attendance from the day being changed and forward will have to be deleted and re-entered.

Good luck to all you crazy EE folks!

Calendar Control

EA510BD0-8193-4A50-9EAC-58C4C883D722 — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:26:50 GMT

I am looking for a calendar (date) control like the one that appears in the date column of the attributes pages in RE.

It is not one of the default controls. I tried RE7_SC72.SuperCalendar, but that is not what I want.