Where is it?

You may want to watch some of the videos. I had a really hard time trying to figure out how it worked too.

Marcee – as you mentioned, you can only see today and tomorrow for the Daily Plan. 

However, you can see assignments that aren’t assigned for today by clicking on the “Show assignments not scheduled for today” as you also said that you have found.  To mark off assignments you didn’t do, when you find the book/resource you need to mark off, beside the spot that you would click on to mark it off, there is a little arrow.  Click on that, and it gives you a place to mark it off for the last 7 days… and also a little calendar icon to add in a date even further back so you can mark it off at any past date.

I used the free version of Hschool Tracker, and it was a pain if we didn’t do the assignments for a day… they did have a method to push the assignments back, but it was a pain.  And the paid version of Hschool Tracker is totally different from the free version.  (it is a lot more powerful (from what I’ve read on it) but even MORE complicated too.)

Yes, there is a bit of a learning curve for the organizer… but I didn’t find it that bad compared to other programs.  I find it fairly easy to use – wonderful when you don’t complete things when originally planned, etc.  And although it is setup for a certain way of doing things (which works well) – those of us with a few different requirements have found ways to do things.

You can work on an assignment as many times as you like, but it can only be finished once… then it will give you a button to go to the next assignment.

Take, for example a Math lesson.  You can work on the lesson over various days… but when it was finished, it is done.  So then, the student would be working on the next math lesson… If you don’t have the expander open to let you mark off various days it will just automatically bring up the next lesson.  If you have the expander opten to let you mark off various days, the program thinks you may want to mark other days as worked on, or otherwise edit it… so you need to click a button to move on to the next lesson to mark it.

Now – if you are trying to mark off something like a Violin practice or something like that… well there are various ways people record those…  Either making a resource with a lot of divisions so you can mark the divisions as done… or have no divisions and just mark it always as Worked On  (because really, you never “finish” practicing…)  What I do is have a resource with 12 divisions – with the divisions named the same as the months.  So I mark the daily practice as “worked on”… and the last practice of the month is marked “finished”.  Then if I need to mark practices in the past, I don’t get a huge number of dates show up when I expand to mark past work….

Hope that is a bit clearer!

Go into your Daily Plan. Because it’s Sunday you will have to choose See Tomorrow’s Plan. This will show you what you have scheduled for May 23rd. Scroll down past all the items you have scheduled for the 23rd and you will see Not Scheduled for Today in green. If you click on this, it will show you the subjects that are not scheduled for Monday’s or for 5/23. 

For the weekley view be in Daily Plan. (Since it’s Sunday, you will need to click See Tomorrow’s Plan). Once you are on Monday’s Plan, you can click on Expand Everything at the top. It will show you all of your resources scheduled for the week.

Hope this makes sense. I went and watched all the videos and it helped tremendously.

The videos are so helpful!  I think that after watching them things should be a little smoother.  =)  This is not a “regular” planner and grade keeper.  It helps to think of it that way.  =)  And, once you do have your stuff in, you will be amazed at how much easier it is to keep on track of what you are actually doing.   I had the same kind of initial frustrations at getting it all in, but it was so worth it for me.