"Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery." - Bill Watterson

When we win the snow lottery here in Western Washington, it's usually for 10 cents.

• Free Account: The form to create a Free Personal Account - a scaled-down version of STAR Online that is aimed at individual users - is now available on the STAR Online site and the overall design was improved in many small ways
  
• Lesson Planner: You can now select multiple lesson plans and export them in bulk as PDF documents
• Manage Building: This page automatically pulls up and displays the building(s) a user has access to in the district
• Learning Walks: A clarifying update was applied to the message that's displayed when custom fields aren’t configured which explains why the fields are useful
• Design: We are continually massaging the design to keep it up-to-date with other areas of development and this week we released a handful of subtle changes that we hope make the application just that much easier to use
  

"The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts.  No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving." - H.U. Westermayer

Hopefully you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!

• Videos: We applied some minor enhancements to the  layout
• SMART Goals: Added "n = <count of observations>" to items in chart legend and added legend to export
• SMART Goals: The Observation Details report, by default, now shows all observations conducted for the selected SMART Goal and the date filter fields are pre-set according to the date range of the observations (i.e. from the date of the first observation to the present date)

Pop Quiz: Where was modern pizza invented?

Pardon us for bringing up pizza, but it's still lunchtime.

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - C.S. Lewis

We're dreaming of automatic saves. Our effort to implement auto-save is still in progress. Stay tuned.

We were too busy working this week to get anything done. - Helpdesk

A couple weeks ago, we published a change to the Lesson Planner in which all data was saved as it was entered in order to give you a more fluid user experience. Unfortunately, this introduced some additional issues in production that we did not experience in testing. We have reverted the functionality back to how it originally was - in which you need to manually save your plan (be sure to give your plans a title!) - until we can confirm the new functionality works seamlessly. You will be seeing an update on this soon, either as its own post or included in another weekly update.

Thanks for your feedback and patience as we continue trying to improve the system!