The information on this page specifically applies to the Elementary Report Card program.  This main focus of this web page is to provide directions, instructions and resources for users of the report card software. If users wish, they may use their browser's (Internet Explorer or Netscape) "File/Print" menu items to print out the installation steps for reference.

Before each reporting session, educators MUST ENSURE that they are running the latest, most up-to-date version.

The Elementary Report Card Resources on this web page include:

         File name: ELEMENTARYREPORTMANUAL3-5A.pdf
         Approximate File Size: 2.1 MB

Brian Metcalfe, of Technology Education, has prepared and distributed the "Elementary Report Card Grades 1-6 Stand-Alone" manual. Although this manual was originally created using Publisher, it is available for download off this web page in Adobe's portable document format (PDF). Users, who download the manual in this format, can use their computer to search and browse the bookmarked areas quickly. In addition, one can also print out the manual without requiring Publisher (on which it was originally created) or a laser printer.

To begin downloading the manual to your local hard drive, one can click on the above report manual link. If the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software is installed on your computer, the manual will start to transfer to your computer and will automatically appear in the reader window from which it can be printed. If Adobe Acrobat Reader is not installed, it will be necessary to click on the Adobe link below and select the free download of the reader from the Adobe site. Once the reader software is installed on your computer, you can click on the link at the start of this section to transfer the manual in portable document format (PDF) to your computer.  From the Adobe link below, please select and download the current Acrobat Reader with Search and Accessibility. Ensure that it is English for Windows 95, 98, Me, NT 4.0, 2000 and XP.

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/alternate.html

Steve Broda-Milian, from Stanley Knowles School, prepared the following one-page set of explicit directions for his staff to download a "Full Installation" of this software over the Internet. This same page of directions is available in four different file formats to accommodate all users. Based on the word processor which you use most, click on one of the files below and save it to your hard drive. Open the downloaded file with your word processor of choice and print the one page download directions for reference.

This set of instructions is written to assist installation on The Winnipeg School Division No. 1 computers. Regardless of whether the Elementary Report Card software is being installed by downloading it off the Internet, from a CD or from a series of floppy diskettes, the installation on school computers MUST be done at the "TEACHER" level.

Installation on a home machine is similar but may not require all of the steps in this installation.

1.  If DeepFreeze is running, make  certain to "thaw" the computer first. Logon to a Windows 95 or Windows 98 workstation as the user “Teacher” with the appropriate password.

Change the resolution to 800 x 600 (any amount of colours) by completing the following steps: In the System Tray (extreme bottom right corner of the screen), find the small icon that resembles a monitor. Click once on this icon. The user should see a listing of possible settings for the video card in the computer. If you need to change the display settings, choose the appropriate setting and if prompted to “Apply the settings without restarting?”, click on the “OK” button. (Once you have launched the Display icon the first time, the user may place a check in the box beside “Don’t ask this question again” and this prompt will not appear on subsequent changes.) Wait a few seconds (you will see a black screen) and the settings’ adjustments will be made.

640X480 256 colors – means 640 pixels in width by 480 in length and 256 colors
800X600 256 colors – means 800 pixels in width by 600 in length and 256 colors

16 bit color indicates 64,000 colors
24 bit color indicates 16 million colors
32 bit color indicates 16 million colors

2. Insert the Elementary Report Card CD in the CD-ROM drive.

3. Make sure no other software is running when you do any installation.

4. Click on Start | Run | and enter “D:\setup.exe” (without quotes
- where D is the name of your CD-ROM drive) in the “Open” field.
Click the “OK” button.

5. At the prompt “This will install Elementary Report Card. Do you wish to continue?”, click on the “Yes” button.

6. When the “Elementary Report Card Setup Wizard” welcome screen is displayed, close any open programs as advised and click on the “Next” button.

7. When the “Select Additional Tasks” window is displayed,
one can choose to “Create a desktop icon” and/or “Create a Quick Launch icon”. 
Click to place a checkmark in the options you wish to install.
Educators installing this software at home may wish to install a “Quick Launch” icon (which will appear at the bottom of the screen immediately to the right of the “Start” buttons).
Such “Quick Launch” icons only require a single click to launch programs.
Click on the “Next” button to proceed.

8. The “Ready to Install” window will confirm which additional tasks have been selected. Click on the “Install” button to proceed.

9. A horizontal progress bar will display as the Elementary Report Card components are installed.

10. When prompted that “Setup has finished installing Elementary Report Card on your computer”, click on the “Finish” button which will launch the software by default. If one removes the checkmark beside “Launch Elementary Report Card” and clicks the “Finish” button, the software can be installed so that a user will be able to launch the program with any of the following three ways:

A. As menu items: Start | Programs | Elementary Report Card |Elementary Report Card;
B. Desktop shortcut; or
C. Quick Launch icon.

If the computer is to be used by students, logout of the "Teacher" mode and login as a "Student".

Lastly if DeepFreeze is installed, make certain to "freeze" the computer as the last step.

Educators whose microcomputer does not have Internet access nor a CD-ROM drive have up until now been out-of-luck. However Patrick Logan, from Educational Technology, has recently compressed the latest version of the  Elementary Report Card software on to a sequence of five diskettes.

Directions: Educators wishing to acquire these five compressed diskettes will need to have a colleague gain access to the Internet and download and copy/save the files, which follow, on to five diskettes keeping the EXACT same file name and structure. Click on the six files below and save them (with the EXACT same name to one's hard drive). Next copy the six files to five formatted floppy diskettes making certain that BOTH "setup.exe" and "setup.001" are copied to the first diskette.

Elementary Report Card Software on disk - Version 4.0a

MANDATORY UPGRADE

It is assumed that the computer without Internet access and no CD-ROM drive has sufficient power to run the Elementary Report Card software. As a minimum, one needs a Pentium computer running either Windows 95, 98, 2000 Professional or NT 4.0 with at least 16MB of RAM.

The installer should insert Disk 1(with the two files on it) into the computer and execute the "setup.exe" file on the floppy by double clicking on it. Alternatively, one can clicks the "Start/Run" menu items, enter "A:setup.exe" (without quotes) into the "Open" field and click the "OK" button to start the extraction process. The self-extracting archive, which spans the five diskettes, will prompt the user to install each of the remaining four diskettes in sequence. Once the last diskette has been extracted, one can then proceed with the standard Elementary Report Card installation.