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I want to say—I am SO GRATEFUL that you included a collapse feature with this new overview feature, so I can “hide” it and not print it!!!!!!!!
This looks great! Is it possible to print details of that week’s planned assignments in a week too? Realizing the assignments could change, but could I print an overview of what books and pages, etc. that we hope to accomplish that week? This would be very helpful, like the daily but it is for the week.
I agree with some of the above posters. It would be great to be able to see and print a weekly or simply a five day view in chart form. That would be fabulous!
I admit I’d prefer the children to be ordered by age too, although it has always been alphabetical on the organizer.
We hadn’t thought about age order but I can see how that could make sense. What do the rest of you think? If we sorted by age would you be wishing for alphabetical?
Is it possible to mark subjects as Worked On or Complete from the Weekly Overview screen?
Yes and no. You can’t from the overview itself because it doesn’t show the individual assignments. However, it’s not on a screen by itself. It’s at the top of multiple screens. So if you go to your daily plan you will see the overview at the top then you can scroll down a bit and mark off assignments.
Is it possible to print details of that week’s planned assignments in a week too?
Nope, and that’s intentional. Remember, the CM Organizer is a flexible, what’s-next planner, not a rigid, assign-every-lesson-to-a-date-and-stress-me-out-planner.
The CM Organizer has no idea how many lessons each child will do for each subject so it has no way to figure out what you’ll be doing several days from now. For example, you may do one history lesson on a particular day, but only half a math lesson. And on another day you may do a full math lesson and enjoy a history reading so much that you decide to read an extra chapter.No problem. The next day you just do what’s next. Don’t you feel relaxed already?
With the new weekly summary, you could print that first page and see at a glance what subjects you are doing that day. Let’s say you’re doing math today. You pull out the math book and continue where you left off. Easy … and you don’t have to go online to figure it out. Then just update the CM Organizer with what was done.
Or, we could force you to enter how many of each lesson for each subject for each child you will do each day. You would have to do a bunch more data entry to be able to see exactly what you planned for each day. And then you would get ahead or behind and lose the flexibility of just doing what’s next. And then you would feel stressed. And you might blame it on us and not be our online friend anymore. And the CM Organizer would be like all the other planners out there that we’re trying to escape.
Just a thought: It would be neat if I could customize the order of subjects in the weekly overview so that my students would be able to see their subjects in order of how they do their work. The daily assignment section could then remain in alphabetical order, and that subject order issue is simply solved. I really love how the weekly overview gives a big picture view while maintaining the simplicity of the organizer. Thank you.
Okay, I see your point Doug. I may have to give it a try sometime. The new weekly overview is certainly an improvement that I would use.
The simplicity is important to maintain. I agree totally. I just greatly prefer a weekly list to a daily if I’m printing OR I would like to have the ability to have my kids login and check their own work without messing anything up.
@Janell, We do have changing the order of subjects on our list of things we’d like to do.
@misscegee, So you’re saying that having a week of assignments for you isn’t so much about schedule and dates but allowing your kids to work independently, right?
If your kids could log in and check their own work, what are the things you would want them to be able to do and what are the things that you don’t trust them to leave alone and would need blocked?
That’s right, Doug. For me it isn’t about dates at all, but independence. I like the idea of having that weekly list because it means I only need to login once per week to check off and print the next week. If I get ahead or behind, I’ll check off accordingly. I just have issues with doing it daily. I plan by weeks and think in weeks and my kids like seeing the week laid out. If we miss something, we bump it, but by seeing the week’s work, they have opportunity to work ahead if they know something is coming. A chart or a similar list that simply allows you to print 5 days at a time would work. There is a likelihood that we won’t get to something, but when I check off at the end of the week, it would adjust same as now.
Alternatively, if there were student logins, I would only want them to access the daily plan and nothing else. I wouldn’t want the scheduling, resources, or account info. to accidentally be changed. It would be slightly less important to have the weekly option with student logins, but ideally there would be both. 😉 in my fantasy planner anyway. This would be the best of the best in my mind.
Thanks for always considering customer requests even if they don’t pan out.
Christie
My kids show up in age order. I must have alphabetized them at birth. Heh!
They’re color coded, too, btw. Giggle.I check of *usually* daily, so this works fine for me. I don’t mind the order because we change our order from time to time based on random needs anyway. Glancing at the list of subjects that we OUGHT to do according to the original plan I had in mind is plenty for us at this point. Adding in the suggestions that help others will be fine, too.
Thanks for everything!!!
I also want the kids to be able to use it independently. I agree with the list above. I’m also worried that they might finish a resource by accident and I won’t be able to undo it
I would like to see the names of my children by age with the Family’s work at the very top. That would be extremely helpful! But, I LOVE this new feature!
The CM Organizer has no idea how many lessons each child will do for each subject so it has no way to figure out what you’ll be doing several days from now. For example, you may do one history lesson on a particular day, but only half a math lesson. And on another day you may do a full math lesson and enjoy a history reading so much that you decide to read an extra chapter.
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