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1. OOSH Curriculum Plan Template: A new curriculum plan template is now available for OOSH Before and After School cares.
2. Control Panel: Introducing a control panel feature for all forms. These control panels are located at the bottom of all pages and they contain various buttons to modify the template based on your needs. The control panels are visible on screen only and they do not print.
3. FDC and LDC versions: You can now choose between a “Long daycare (LDC)” version and a “Family Daycare (FDC)” version for Curriculum plans and Reflections of our Day. The FDC version does not have the Educators and Room fields. These versions can be selected from the form’s control panel.
4. Educators Field: The Educator field is now modified to hold more than 1 name. This field now auto-expands based on the length of the characters in it. Please note that the maximum character allowed for the educator field is 30.
5. Font Sizes: You can now increase or decrease font sizes for some text fields based on your needs. To change font sizes, click on the “+” or “-” buttons next to “Font Size” in the control panel.
6. Photos: You can now toggle between “Stretch” and “Fit” settings for photos in Learning Stories and Reflections of our Day. So this now gives the users an ability to add portrait photos without being stretched and distorted.
7. Weekends: Weekends can be added to the weekly curriculum plans for centres that are open during the weekends. To include weekends to the curriculum plan template, simply click on the “Add” or “Del” button next to “Weekends” in the control panel (this only applies to the Weekly Curriculum Plan Sheets).
8. Centre logos: Users now have the ability to change the dimension of the centre logo field based on the size and shape of your centre logo. You can now change the logo dimension by clicking on the “Square” or “Rectangle” buttons next to “Centre Logo” in control panel (also refer to "Known Limitations" below).
9. Individual Learning Stories: The fields for the Learning Stories changes based on your selection for “Individual” or “Group”. The “Individual” setting will now add new fields to include child’s D.O.B and child’s name.
10. FAQ, Troubleshoot and Video Tutorial pages updated.
11. Known Limitations & Bugfix: There are some known limitations for the current version. Also some minor bug fixes are resolved. Please read below on more info on "Known Limitations" and "Bug Fixes".

Bugfix from last version:

1) Print Form button fixed for Daily curriculum plan Learning Outcomes.
2) Fixed the learning outcomes drop down lists for "weekly curriculum Plan Play Based".
3) Removed borders around centre logos in Add-on pages.

Known Limitations:

1) Centre Logo (square): There is a known limitation for the centre logo on this version. From reading the above, you will notice that you can now change the centre logo dimensions between square and rectangle by clicking on the appropriate button in the form's control panel. Please note that if you are choosing the "Square" settings for the centre logo, the logo field in the additional pages (i.e page 2 onwards) will reset back to rectangle after you click on the "Finalize Form" button. So in this case, remember that you need to click on the "Square" settings again AFTER you finalize the form to make sure that all pages have the same dimension for centre logos. (This limitation applies to only Daily & Weekly Curriculum Plans on Learning Outcomes and Play based Learning formats)

2) Educator Field Length: "30" is the maximum character allowed in the educator's field.

Hope you all like the changes!

Cheers ,
L.A

"I can't seem to get the forms to open more than once. it tells me adobe reader is out of memory.
Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks
Marion"

I was just wondering if I could put in a request for your 0.0.3 release (im pushing it arent i) that there is an oshc version of the learning story and observation.. I personally would keep everything the same just alter the few outcomes to reflect MTOP framework.

by fran s » Tue Apr 03, 2012 9:18 pm
just wondering if there is a FDC version of the learning story. The rest seems great. Thanks