Week at a glance

Sonya,

I was thinking about the week plan aswell. I reckon you could create a week schedule/framework based on the resources that are scheduled. The disclaimer would be that this generated week schedule would be a “tentative guide” and is subject to change due to the things that just happen in life.

What I’m looking at and probably most others is just a simple schedule breaking it down by children/family etc. and seeing what is scheduled for Mon, Tues … etc. Similar to the schedule examples you can download. For now … I’m just using excel to basically replicate the scheduling timings we have already created in CM Organisor.

So the result is not so much a calendar schedule but a simple overview week calendar highlighting the current schedule. I think as changes occur … most users would be happy to print out a fresh one.

Cheers Marcel

Sonya,

I don’t think the scheduler needs to be that complicated … keeping it simple is better. With the example you provided I reckon most parents and students have an idea what the program sequence/pace for that material is because initially … when you move to the next resource you would’ve discussed how the material should be completed.

What I am looking for is like a quick mental jogger of ‘Whats On’ for the day/week as an overview. The details required have already been keyed in when you initially scheduled your resources. The breakdown would be based on Family/Student, Day, Subject, Resource

An example may help with the wordage above 🙂

Assigned Sun Mon Tue ….

Family(1) Bible(2)

Adventures in the Bible(3)

Michael Math(2) Beginner Reading(2)

Saxons Math(3) Phonics Pathway(3)

Samantha History(2)

WW2 Escapes(3)

Impacted by War(3)

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.

.

1=Assigned to, 2=Subject, 3=Resource assigned for that subj.

So if today was say Tuesday, Michael knows he will be doing “Beginning Reading” and using Phonics Pathways. Samantha knows its History day. Michael knows what he is up to and so does Samantha.

The overview is set; its completely flexible and not related to what has/has not been completed. The information is simple and relevant and not cluttered with even more detail that can on days look so overwhelming (You know those days, the odd bad days we all have :-))

If confirmation of what sequence or part the student is up to; then parents can quickly go to the daily planner to see the greater detail.

I know its long. I guess the weekly overview at the end of the day is just tentative and a quick reference as to whats on today. If it hasn’t been mentioned yet … this is only going to be super useful if the parent can print it out. Having the filter option on “Assigned To” would allow us to then print a specific one for the student. We do that when creating a list of chores/routines specific for each of our children. They take away and store it somewhere for them to check 🙂

Anyway … hope that gives you some further food for thought.

Cheers Marcel.

Listing only the resource titles and not the individual assignments for each day would eliminate that pacing problem, that’s for sure. Thanks, Marcel. That just might be the answer!

G’day Bookworm 🙂

Not claiming any new idea’s here. Basically what you do is what I was thinking; an easy thing to check. As the feature is not in CMO yet 🙂 I was going manually key in the ‘birds eye’ info into Excel. It’d be just nice to be able to generate this overview based on the info. that has already been setup in the CMO.

Appreciate your helpfulness with the questions submitted to the forum.

Cheers Marcel

I like Marcel’s idea!