With the end of the academic year almost upon schools it's time to start planning and thinking about end of year procedures for ConductOnline.

Actions to consider include: new form group allocations; updating national curriculum years; adding/removing staff; year head changes; etc. We can also import new students for Yr 7 when you have the data available.

We can assist with any data import/export and modification. Just send an email to admin @ 3squareassociates.com outlining your requirements.

Following the release of the Apple iPad, we've been looking at porting some of our software titles across to this new and groundbreaking device.

Up until now, the small screen size of iPhone was a bit of a limiting factor for things like lesson plans, assessment tracking, report writing, etc. iPad provides a much better device and screen size for users to interact with our software. We're already converting Lesson Planner to run on iPad and iPhone.

We'll be announcing the release of Lesson Planner for iPad shortly and followers of our RSS feed will be the first to hear about it so watch this space! The app will be available via the iTunes App Store.

ConductOnline is already iPhone and iPad ready, so if you haven't done so, try ConductOnline on your iPhone or iPad!

The new Ofsted inspection framework places increased emphasis on behaviour, are you ready?

ConductOnline already includes all the tools needed for providing inspectors with the data and evidence they need.

Ofsted require:

Documentary evidence about pupils' behaviour, including records of: racist and bullying incidents; the use of any 'on-call' system; the use of 'remove' or 'seclusion' rooms; and the types of incidents which occur at break, lunchtime and social times

Rates and patterns of permanent and overall/repetitive fixed-period exclusions, including any over-representation from different groups

BECTA has announced the winners of their ICT Excellence Awards. The prestigious accolade of 'Best whole school' is given to just one secondary and one primary school annually.

3 Square are pleased to be associated with Prospect House School as users of our SMS Sender text messaging software. True to the ICT excellence within the school, important messages are sent out to parents within minutes to mobile phones or landlines using SMS Sender text messaging.

We will be changing the VAT applied to all our products from 15% to 17.5% from 1st January 2010.

If you want to take advantage of the 15% VAT rate please order online via our web store or by placing a purchase order before 31st December 2009.

We've redesigned and re-launched the ConductOnline website.

The new website offers an enhanced user interface, additional pages and more information about ConductOnline. We've added more videos and a PDF brochure too.

Have a look at the new site by clicking here.

The latest system update allows users to subscribe to a ConductOnline RSS feed for found sets or individual students.

RSS allows users to find a group of students, such as a form, or an individual student and then create an RSS feed. The saved feed can then be read in your browser, using a PDA or even your mobile phone. The RSS feed will automatically update with new conduct entries when your feed reader is opened or refreshed.

Feeds can be managed, copied, etc. using the ConductOnline Admin > My Details > Manage RSS menu.

Ever wanted to use your ConductOnline data with Microsoft Word?

The latest update to ConductOnline allows users to run an export from the Admin Menu > Export for an individual or found set that creates a .MER or .XLS file that includes all conduct incident details.

The exported data can then be used within a Word document that can be formatted to suit your requirements. This is going to be particularly useful for student disciplinary hearings when a pupil has lots of conduct records and the document required is more complex than the current printing and design options within ConductOnline via your browser. You'll be able to format the Word document how you want to present the data.

A demo Word template and demo data files are now available to download. Please click here to download DemoMergeFile.zip

NOTE:

The Excel option is limited to 255 characters in the notes field, due to a cell character limit in Excel, any additional characters will be truncated. The MER file option does not have this limitation. A warning will appear if you create an Excel file where one or more notes fields have 256 or more characters.

Care should be taken to avoid accidentally exporting large record sets, such as the whole school, as this may make your system unresponsive. If you need to export larger record sets, perform finds for smaller data sets first and then export, i.e. find a form group > export.

An update to ConductOnline has been released.

This update has been applied to all current users and includes the following new features:

• merge file export for current student or found set of students
• Excel file export for current student or found set of students
• a number of minor bug fixes

Both export options are available via the Admin menu > Export and allow users to produce a file that can be used directly in MS Excel or in a Word mail merge document via data manager.

NOTE:

The Excel option is limited to 255 characters in the notes field, due to a cell character limit in Excel, any additional characters will be truncated. The MER file option does not have this limitation. A warning will appear if you create an Excel file where one or more notes fields have 256 or more characters.

Care should be taken to avoid accidentally exporting large record sets, such as the whole school, as this may make your system unresponsive. If you need to export larger record sets, perform finds for smaller data sets first and then export, i.e. find a form group > export.

Ever wanted to use your ConductOnline data with Microsoft Word?

The next update to ConductOnline will include the ability to save a merge file or Excel file, for use with Microsoft Word's data merge feature. You'll have the option to export conducts for an individual student or for any found set.

The exported data can then be used within a Word document that can be formatted to suit your requirements. This is going to be particularly useful for student disciplinary hearings when a pupil has lots of conduct records and the document required is more complex than the current printing and design options within ConductOnline via your browser. You'll be able to format the Word document how you want to present the data.

We will also make available a demo template and file for you to download.

An update to ConductOnline has been released.

This update has been applied to all current users and includes the following new features:

• end of year procedure for changing form groups and national curriculum years when ready for when students start the new term
• save RSS feed URL from a found set of conducts, for example, a form group or year group
• manage your RSS feeds menu showing all your saved feeds
• full page print for individual conducts that expands to multiple pages if the incident report is long.
• a number of minor bug fixes

An update to ConductOnline will be released shortly.

This update includes the following new features:

• end of year procedure for changing form groups and national curriculum years when ready for when students start the new term
• save RSS feed URL from a found set of conducts, for example, a form group or year group
• manage your RSS feeds menu showing all your saved feeds
• full page print for individual conducts that expands to multiple pages if the incident report is long.
• a number of minor bug fixes

The latest system update allows users to subscribe to a ConductOnline RSS feed for the whole school or individual students.

RSS allows managers and even outside agencies to view conducts without having to be actively logged in. A secure "key" is generated from an authenticated user who has logged into the system, this can then be inserted into an RSS reader and your feed becomes live. RSS keys for individual students could be generated for EWO's, carers, social workers, other agencies and stake holders in the individual pupils welfare and education. With RSS and the secure key they don't have access to your system but can see conducts for designated students.

ConductOnline can now add the same conduct to multiple students in one go.

Simply select one or more students and create a behaviour entry for them, fill it in with staff, location, conduct type, etc. Click save and your done. The conduct entry is added to all the selected pupils, for pupils who are on a watch list the relevant staff are also automatically emailed or SMS text messaged about the new entry.

ConductOnline now features parental login which will only show parent's conduct details for their child.

With a slick slide down, slide up interface, it's really easy for parents to look at their stored contact details, conduct records, sent letters, behaviour emails, text messages delivered and their son or daughter's behaviour chart.

Keep a close eye on one or more students by adding them to your watch list.

Every conduct they receive will be emailed to you or sent by text to your mobile.