Feature

NEW
Switched-On Schoolhouse 2009

Benefit

New Format for the Home Page

A fun new way to view SOS, with helpful and interesting new bites of information displayed in widgets of your choosing!

Allows you and your students to modify your Home page and easily access daily work and tools with a single click.

MiSOS Themes

All new, themes for teachers. Themes for students have a new look and feel. Optional widgets available for all.

Allows you and your students to personalize the look and feel of SOS. You even have a customizable theme, so make it your own! You control what options your students have available to choose among.

Daily Work Report

One page summary of the work done by your student(s) for the day.

Lets you see exactly which lessons, projects, quizzes and tests your student spent time working on for a specified date.

Redesigned Student Schoolwork Page

Emphasis on "Current Assignments", with a reminder to double-click to open assignments, and blue links for active assignments.

Makes it very simple for students to see at a glance, which assignments they need to work on today.

Simplified Exclude Day Process

More intuitive flow to exclude a range of days or a repeating day as a schoolday.

Simplified the process to exclude days from your school calendar and added on-screen
instructions.

Modified Term and Calendar Screens

Expanded instruction of calendar functions.

Instructions available on-screen immediately.

Pre-installed Sample Lessons

We've made it easier for you to access and assign the Sample Lessons.

Forget installing the practice lessons. They are already there for you.

Copy Curriculum Capability for Students

Students can copy SOS curriculum onto their computer.

Enables students to copy curriculum directly onto their own computer, so they no longer have to use the CD to access their schoolwork.

Context Sensitive Help Feature

Press F1 on a number of the forms in SOS and go directly to the Help for that form.

One-click takes you directly to help for the SOS window you are currently viewing. Saves you search time.

New Lesson Plan Icons

Visual alert on Lesson Plan screen for all assignment types

Identify, at a glance, if an assignment is a lesson, project, quiz or test.

Single-click to Zero-out an Assignment

One-step method to clear the work and grades in an assignment and mark it as complete.

Provides a point-and-click, single step to clear work and mark it done.

Keyboard Shortcut for "Save & Exit" functions

Provides a streamlined method for grading student's work.

Makes grading simpler for you by using a one-click shortcut to "save and exit" after
grading an assignment.

Additional Access to Create Custom Assignments

Use the Edit Student Subject window to create a custom assignment for a student.

Provides you an additional option to creating custom assignments for your students.