The list below describes what has been changed in SM-Marks with each
update. If your copy is not the latest, you can determine what has been
added to the program by reading from the top until you reach the date
shown in the Help|About command of the copy you
are using now.
In general, when a new feature is added the date is changed, otherwise
when a change enhances or fixes an existing feature the letter appended
to the date is changed.
15th July 2009
Fixed the printing in the landscape orientation for printers that previously did not work.
Added the Debug printer option to the Advanced section of the Edit|Preferences command.
Added the Report folder option to the Folders section of the Edit|Preferences
command, this allows set the location of the statement databank from
SM-Reports if it is in a different folder from the markbook.
Improved the spell checking of the Edit|Notes|Report comment command by increasing the number of words in the dictionary.
Improved the Edit|Note|Report comment command to now allow use of the statement databank from SM-Reports, if it is available.
15th March 2009
Fixed the File|Import commands that didn't correctly use the Import with long files names option from the Preferences command.
Add the ERN csv files type to the File|Import|Import and File|Import|Import and Update commands so markbooks can be created with data from the ERN – Enrolment and Registration Number – application of the NSW DET Web Portal. See Answer 16 in the Q&A section of this website for details.
Added the Print|Marks with|Extra column command.
Added the Print|Marks with|Rank command.
Added the Print|Marks with|Student ID command.
Added the Print|Marks with|Class name command.
Added the Print|Marks with|Teacher name command. See the SM-Marks 2 for SM-Marks Users and Command References sections of the help for more details on using these new Print commands.
Added the View|Class name command.
Added the View|Student ID command. These two new commands allow you to conveniently choose whether these columns are shown without having to use the Edit|Preferences command.
Added the Tools|Sort students|By Student ID command.
Added the Left option to the marks pop-up menu.
Added the Centre option to the marks pop-up menu.
Added the Right
option to the marks pop-up menu. These three new commands allows you to
change the alignment of the results in the task columns.
Improved the Edit|Paste command so it can work even when there is no class.
Improved the changing of the widths of the task columns so they can now be changed with a click and drag of the mouse.
Improved the deleting of tasks so that if a task is used by a
calculation, the task used it is listed, so you know why the task
cannot be deleted.
15th April 2008e
Fixed the Opening and Saving of markbooks when the folders include
a period (.) in the path which could cause a "file in use" error.
Fixed the File|Import|Import command which would cause an internal error if the Import with long file names option is set to No in the Edit|Preferences command.
Fixed the Edit|Paste command to work in all cases where the students already exist in the markbook being pasted into.
Fixed the Help|Calculation Assistant
command to not show the Standardise page (which is not needed and is ignored) when setting up the Weight the task while adding calculation.
Fixed the Grade Weight calculation to correctly ignore students that have N/A in a grade task.
15th April 2008
Fixed the File|Import|Import command to work in cases when there are students that have no classes in the OSTUDY.TXT file.
Fixed the Weights dialogue in the Edit|Calculation command which would allow editing of the weight for the first task.
Fixed the Action|Move|Students command which in some cases showed an "internal error" message.
Added the Grade weight calculation to the Edit|Calculation command.
Added the Import with long file names option to the Advanced preferences in the Edit|Preferences command.
Added the Print|Student Report command.
15th March 2008
Fixed the File|Import|Import command to work in cases when there are students that have no classes in the OSTUDY.TXT file.
Fixed the Action|Move|Classes and Action|Move|Tasks commands which in some cases showed an "internal error" message.
Fixed the Print|Notes|Student command for when there are new lines in a note.
Fixed the pop-up hint for the student notes when there are new lines in a note.
Improved the File|Import|Import command so the same student name can be imported into more than one class.
Improved the warning when entering a result larger than the task maximum buy showing the message in a pop-up box.
Added the Keep students sorted option to the Advanced section of the Edit|Preferences command so the settings of the Tools|Sort students menu items are stored in the markbook.
Added the Compare tasks calculation to the Edit|Calculation command.
Added the View|Split screen command.
15th
September 2007a
Fixed
the starting of the program which in some cases would lock up with some
Printer Drivers.
Fixed
the Edit|Paste command to paste student names
copied from a spreadsheet.
Fixed the File|Import|Update command and command
line equivalent to work with CSV files created with SM-Marks 2.
Improved the File|Save command to show a warning if
there is any
problem saving a markbook file.
Improved the Edit|Calculation command to allow
multiple tasks to be selected.
Improved
the Edit|Calculation command to allow drag and drop
actions with the mouse to move tasks to and from the Include list.
Improved the Edit|Advanced|Lock results command to
work with tagged
tasks.
Improved
the Action|Move|Tasks command to allow drag and
drop actions with the mouse to move tasks up and down the list.
Improved access to commands that require the Supervisor password so you
are only asked once for the password while a markbook is kept open.
Improved the SM-Marks 2 icon to look better with Windows
XP/Vista.
Added the note icon to the student and task name in the main
grid when a student or task has a note.
Added the Rank ignores N/A results option to the
Calculation methods item in the Edit|Preferences
command.
Added the Show rank estimates option to the
Calculation methods item
in the Edit|Preferences command.
Added the Show teacher on print marks option to the
Appearance item
in the Edit|Preferences command.
Added the Options page to the Help|Print Assistant
command to allow you
to select the grid or shading of lines.
15th
April 2007
Fixed the opening of markbooks from a Windows folder
that
spaces in the path or filename.
Fixed the /i command line switch which didn't work in some cases.
Fixed the File|Import|Import command to work better
with a wider range of files from OASIS.
Fixed the Print|Graphs|Scatter chart command to
work in all cases when showing separated classes.
Fixed the Tools|Advanced|Change supervisor password
command.
Improved the Edit|Calculation command to be able to
change the cut-off for individual outcomes on the Outcomes page.
Improved the Print|Class roll command to darken the
lines between each week.
Added the /l command line switch (or /L) that creates a log
file SMMARKS2.LOG in the same folder as the program.
Added a pop-up context menu when right clicking
on the marks grid.
Added Use Application Data folder to the Advanced
Options in the Edit|Preferences command to
optionally prevent SM-Marks 2 from storing configuration data in the
program folder.
Added
the Edit|Advanced|Copy
maximum into work file command.
Added Line saver option to the printer
properties in the Edit|Preferences command.
Added
the Print|Notes|Student command.
Added
the Print|Notes|Task command.
Added
the Print|Notes|Class command.
Added
the Print|Notes|Report comment command.
Added
to the SM-Marks 2 Guide and Reference to document
the new commands.
15th January 2007
Fixed the Tools|Estimate results command to
immediately update any calculations after the estimates are done.
Added the Edit|Advanced|Lock results command to
allow individual tasks to be locked so the results cannot change.
Added the Deciles calculation type to the Edit|Calculation
command.
Added
the Quartiles calculation type to the Edit|Calculation
command.
Added more keyboard shortcuts to the menu items.
Improved
the
visibility of the File|Advanced|Close without saving
command by moving it to the File menu.
Improved the Edit|Tasks command to warn if more
than one task has the same name.
Improved the Edit|Outcomes command to warn if more
than one outcome has the same name, or has the same name as a task.
Improved the Edit|Sex|Female and Edit|Sex|Male
commands to be able to
set all tagged students.
Improved the Edit|Calculation command to make the
calculation apply to all classes as the default for a new calculation.
Improved the Edit|Preferences command where if the
Class roll
preferences are changed and another markbook is opened, then the Class
roll dates are copied into the markbook.
Improved the look of the buttons on the toolbars and the pop-up boxes
to a more modern look.
Improved the tabs to
use the same font as the main grid.
Improved the pop-up hints by making them larger.
Improved
the SM-Marks 2 Guide and Reference with more
details in the SM-Marks 2 for SM-Marks 2 Users and
the new Keyboard shortcuts sections.
15th
September 2006
Fixed the File|Import|Import command which in some
cases would cause an Access Violation error.
Fixed
the File|Import|Update command which in some cases
would cause an Access Violation error.
Fixed
the Grade Average
calculation type which wouldn't include all the selected tasks in the
average.
Added the /i and /o command
line parameters to import and overwrite files. See the Command
line parameters section of the Help for details.
Added the Tools|Count results command.
Improved the Tools|Advanced|Error log command to
list more details for diagnosing problems.
15th
July 2006
Fixed
the Rank
calculation type to put the number of students being ranked as the task
maximum.
Added the Edit|Advanced|Paste over existing students
command
that pastes information from the clipboard without adding new students
or changing the class each student is in.
Added the Prompt for folder option in the Edit|Preferences
command in the Options|Folders section to allow the
folder to be chosen each time a markbook is copied, exported or backed
up.
Added the Make backup file option in the Edit|Preferences
command in the Options|Advanced section to make a
backup copy of a markbook each time it is opened.
Added the Tools|Count
grades command to count the number of grades for use on new
style reports.
Added Show split page view button to
Preview Page toolbar to divide the page into two halves when using the Print|Marks
command.
Improved the File|Import|Import command to work
with TCWINDOW.TXT files that do not have a course for every class or use comma delimiters on
the student lines..
Improved the Edit|Paste command to work in cases
where the All
Students tab is selected and the information on the Windows clipboard
does not include class details.
Improved
the use of the ! (exclamation) to keep grades from being overwritten by
a calculation.
Improved the SM-Marks Guide and Reference with new
sections about Why?, New reports
and Backing up and file types.
1st
February 2006b
Fixed printing in landscape orientation to format properly to fit on
the page.
1st February 2006a
Fixed the File|Open command to work with old smk
markbooks that have unexpected data.
Fixed the Print|Class roll command to properly
format the page when there are only a few weeks being displayed.
Fixed the Print|Marks command to print each tagged
class.
Fixed the Print|Marks command to print all tagged
class as a single list if the All students tab is selected.
Added a pop-up hint that shows the full name of the task when the mouse
cursor is kept over the task name.
Added a pop-up hint that shows the type of calculation of the task when
the mouse cursor is kept over the calculator icon above the task name.
Added the File|Export|Outcomes command to create
files compatible with SM-Reports.
Added Action|Tag all classes command.
Improved the File|Import|Import command to work
with a wider range of TCWINDOW.TXT files.
Improved the Edit|Paste command to work with data
from SM-Marks version one.
Improved the Print|Student statistics command to
show the column headings for every student, or you can print one
student per page if the Show alternate view button
on the Print Preview toolbar is down.
Improved the density of the shading when alternate lines are shaded on
a printed page.
Changed the name of the Helper commands to Assistants.
1st November 2005
Fixed the Tools|Advanced|Create OASIS Diskette command.
Fixed the memory error message that appeared in some circumstances when
closing the program.
Fixed a problem where leading or trailing spaces caused numbers to be
treated as text in a calculation.
Added the Tools|Advanced|Convert Smk markbooks command.
Added the student number and total number of students to the status
line.
Added the /s command line parameter to use the shortcut Start up folder
when using the File|Open command.
15th July 2005c
Fixed a problem when a task with a Linear mapping does not have any
number to map to or from.
Fixed a problem where an internal error occurs as startup if there are
many network printers.
Added the ability to make a log file named SMMARKS2.LOG if an error
occurs during the program startup.
15th July 2005
Fixed the Edit|Undo command which sometimes generates an error message.
Fixed the converting of SM-Marks Version 1 files to read the subject
and year from the markbook.
Added the Edit|Advanced|Fill down command.
Added the Action|Move|Outcomes command.
Added
the Tools|Sort|Group students by sex command.
Added a new feature where double clicking on the name of a student or
task selects the Note command for that item.
Added a new feature where SM-Marks 2 can be made to not use the Windows
Registry for storing preferences and settings. See Answer 14 for
details.
Added a new section to the SM-Marks 2 Help file named SM-Marks
2 for SM-Marks Users.
1st June 2005a
Fixed the Edit|Undo command which didn't work in some circumstances.
1st June 2005
Added the Help|When does this trial expire? command
to the free Trial
version.
Added a hint to the status line if the Print|Marks
command is
used without any tagged tasks.
1st May 2005b
Fixed a problem in the Help|Printer Helper command
that prevented a
task from being sorted when sorting is selected.
1st May 2005a
Fixed a problem that prevented opening a markbook in some cases on some
PCs.
Changed the converting of SM-Marks Version 1 files so the teacher name
is put in the family name column.
1st May 2005
Fixed a problem that prevents opening a markbook in a Windows folder.
Added the same command line parameters that were available in
SM-Marks version 1. See the Command line parameter
section in
the help for details.
Added the Export with Tab delimiter to the Advanced
options
in the Edit|Preferences command. This is to allow
the same exporting options
as SM-Marks version 1.
Added a new "drop-down" list to the Print preview toolbar that allows
you to set the width of the student name column in the Print|Marks,
Print|Student statistics and Print|Class
roll commands.
Renamed the File|Import|Import and update command
to
File|Import|Update.
1st February 2005
Fixed a problem when importing from files created in Time Chart.
Added the Edit|Undo command.
15th January 2005a
Added the Print|Graphs commands which were missing from previous
versions.
Improved the starting up so the position and size of the main window is
restored to be the same as when last run.
1st August 2004f and 1st August 2004g
Fixed a problem where old markbooks do not open correctly if the tasks
have been moved.
Fixed a problem where results with decimal places are edited they are
rounded to
the to number of decimals places set for the task.
Fixed the New|Outcomes command which didn't work.
Fixed a problem that prevents classes from being deleted.
Fixed a problem where default grades cutoffs and percents do not appear
in the Help|Calculation Helper command.
Improved the File|Import|Import command to work
with a
a file created from Time Chart.
1st August 2004e
Changed the File|Import|Import command to work
better with a
single CSV file.
1st August 2004d
Fixed a problem was related to old markbooks not opening if task notes
have a newline character.
Fixed the Print|Print one page command which only
printed a blank page.
Added a new "drop-down" list to the Print preview toolbar that allows
you to set the number of columns with the Print|Marks
command.
1st August 2004c
Fixed the File|Import|Import command to work with
single CSV
files.
1st August 2004b and 1st August 2004a
Fixed several problems that affecting the opening of some old markbook
files.
1st August 2004
Added the Outcomes page to the main window and added several command to
allow the handling of outcomes based assessment.
12th June 2004 and earlier
Fixed numerous internal problems related to the initial
release
of SM-Marks 2.
