School Calendar

School Calendar will help you with assignment organization, project due dates, and scheduling. It can even remind you when your scheduled event is about to happen. Included are two viewing modes, search, auto-backup, password protection.

Pros: School Calendar is an application that lets the user set up class schedule, project due date, tasks/assignments etc. To be able to do this planning in absolute details one can draw up detailed lesson plans including listing out resources for it such as instructors, what material to be used and so on. This helps eliminate class timing clashes for a specific student or a group of students. Once drawn up completely this becomes the focal point for information about classes, details, material, notes and comments.

Two modes of viewing are available. One option is as a time line with two variations on the theme a horizontal or a vertical timeline display. The second option is to have a table organization. Reminders help users to be alerted about upcoming events. One could view the payment status of the students too so that the revenue aspect of the business is also taken care of.

The calendar data can be synced with Microsoft Outlook, exported to various formats, such as .xls, .txt, .html, .xml for use in other applications. Included is an auto-backup option with an opportunity to remove old archives automatically.

Complete details of the class schedules, lesson plans, supporting materials are maintained in the internal database. Access to the application is secured by password to protect against unauthorized use. Lesson editor is quite flexible and makes it easy to plan the details including resources that are to be used. While planning resources one could add avatars to be able to identify the type of resource quickly.

The print designer helps print out the schedules in a number of ways. In fact one could organize printing of teaching material too form the data base in flexible ways.

Cons: There’s nothing that is really negative about this application except the difficulty with any database based packages. There’s a lot of details to be entered for the application to be useful.

Overall rating quite good, 3 stars.

School Calendar is a universal calendar for teachers and pupils from high-schools and colleges, letting them track lessons and tasks to do, organize the studies more effectively than before. To plan time and eliminate overlapping of classes, the calendar lets you track a single pupil or teacher, group of pupils, classroom or school teaching staff. The calendar is ideal as a single reference point for information about classes, details, material, notes and comments. The calendar has an automatic search option and auto-completion of information about a class if it has ever been entered into the database. For more convenience, there are different viewing modes: calendar with a vertical or horizontal timeline or a table-like one. Reminders can help users never miss the class or important event again. Introduced specially for teachers is an ability to see the payment details for any particular date. The calendar data can be synced with Microsoft Outlook, exported to various formats, such as .xls, .txt, .html, .xml, .pdf for use in other applications. You can save appointments into an iCalendar file with the .ics extension. It facilitates data transfer between applications that use Scheduler and other applications, such as Apple iCal, Google Calendar, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office Outlook, Novell GroupWise, Windows Calendar. Included is an auto-backup option with an opportunity to remove old archives automatically. There is a low-priced edition of the product for a workgroup that allows users to work simultaneously over the network. You pay for the program only the first time and get all new versions of this program for FREE and for a lifetime!