1) Fixed some problems with the Show all file links list not scrolling or displaying correctly after an add or delete.
2) Added a drop upwards to the file links instead of dropping down so that it doesn't get obscured when the window is maximised
3) I did a lot of extra testing and error coding on the highlighter control - this should now work better - please report any errors you have when selecting the highlighter in this version.

1) Greatly improved the quality of a resized picture when capturing images in the Pupil Information.
This allows for images to be resized from SIMS with better quality results - (XP and above only)
2) Changed the Excel Import form so that the preview has a sheet selector which mean when importing data from excel you no longer have to make sure that the information you want is in the worksheets default sheet when opened.
3) Added the ability to be able to select your own templates when exporting from the incident reporter. This means that you can export to more than one template at any time without having to change the name of the default template.
4) Added the option to set the location of the Address Book database
5) Added the option to password protect the Address Book
6) Changed the close button in STP to a basic button in order to stop some problems.
7) Fixed the Calendar of Events for none UK academics years - hopefully this will solve problems that my Australian and New Zealand users have been experiencing.
8) Add week numbers and A/B weeks to title bar of Daily Plan so you can see what week you are in :)
9) Added options and a new template for the Export of multiple Short Term Plans to the daily planning. You can also create and choose your own template now. These templates use a single table per lesson per page in the document and use the custom document properties to define which the tables cell location for the information to be sent to. Bookmarks have been removed since with multiple pages in a document the bookmarks would not identify other pages. The normal STP daily planning template has also been changed to remove the text boxes and just used a fixed size table.
10) Added an option for the popup of homework details (if entered) when TPIM is minimised. At the moment you can only enter the number of minutes prior to the end of the lesson that you would like the popup to be shown.
Other settings will become available shortly like selecting a sound to coincide with the popup etc
11) Added MULTIPLE GRADE SHEETS option, note however that hiding columns in the default grade sheet is only temporary unless you select the save current layout option after hiding in which case the columns will stay hidden until you unhide them.
12) Added some Network support for synchronising databases when used on two or more computers. If you store your database on a wireless network drive use the option to prevent the computer from entering standby since this will prevent the disconnection to the database - These facilities are currently being tested with the idea of creating a centralised database store for incident reports on a network shared drive which will be available to Heads of Year or Heads of House and SLT.

1) Fixed a small bug with timetable of greater than 9 lessons per day being unable to display the Short Term Planning in the Daily Planning sheet for these lessons.
2) Added options in the General Settings - Planning section to be able to change the captions for 'Main Activity', 'Homework', 'Dinner Time', 'After School' and 'Notes'
3) Added a facility in the General Settings - File Locations section to show installed Word Export Templates. These templates can be opened in Word for editing by selecting the template and clicking Edit. Note it is important that the bookmarks within the templates are not changed otherwise the Export may not work correctly.
4) Fixed a small problem with the display of the drop down class list in Lesson Properties. Previously the list would not refresh any empty classes when moving from one day to the next.
5) Added a function to the incident form to allow incidents to be imported from another TPIM database (eg last years)
6) When renaming a grade column, entering the name and pressing Enter would crash the program - FIXED
7) If the lesson timings have not be entered or are not correct Loading the register when the seating plan is already loaded will now automatically show the class that is selected in the seating plan. The opposite effect was implemented several versions back. If the lesson timings have been allocated correctly loading the Register form or the Seating plan will now automatically select the class that is current for the time and date of the computer.
8) Added option to change the names of the periods. Default is 1,2,3 etc In this way a database for a 6 period day can be created with 7 periods to include lunch in the planning and then the periods can be renamed.
9) Added File Attachments to the Incident Reporter - Details Tab. These attachments will automatically get picked up when an incident report is created as a HTML Email for Outlook. On the Email Form the attachments may be removed or other attachments may be made.

1) Added option to turn off Alpha Blending in balloon messages to help with Windows VISTA operating that are using the Aero Glass desktop. These systems only seem to be able to use this function after a long wait (approx 3mins) NOTE this doesn't happen on VISTA installation that are not using the Aero Glass desktop.If you are using VISTA and are having freezing problems goto Veiw Menu - General Settings and select the View Setting then turn of the Alpha Blending.

2) Changed various control displays to better display on Vista operating systems
3) Removed the border from the weekly plan and added code to allow this facility to be used even when displaying up to about 50 lessons per week for a particular class. If all the lessons cannot fit into one window a scroll bar is used to view them.
4) Fixed the Tab Order in the Short Term Planning sections.
5) Changed the file link buttons in the planning sheets to icon buttons
6) Added a Time Marker to the daily plans to show at point you are within the lesson at a glance. This is only function if you have setup the lesson timings for your timetable.
7) Changed the icons within the Incident Reporter and the Address Book
8) Added the ability within the incident reporter to dump all incidents for a specific pupil to Excel
9) Added the ability within the incident reporter to Select the type of incident and have it shown by the icon. This allows for you to see both Positive and Negative incidents at a glance. Other Icons are also available for Determining types of incident easily.

1) Fixed gradient black band on the background of the main application.
2) Disallowed Character [,],\, and ^ from being used as part of a Classcode
3) Finally managed to prevent the double click on the Main forms title bar from restoring down the application. It is meant to run in full screen mode (maximised) at all times (or minised)
4) Fixed a bug in the Timetable which meant that Room Numbers weren't saved correctly on a two week timetable.
5) Added a scrollbar and formatting button bar to each post-it note for easier formatting of text within the post-it
6) Add a 'To Do List' facility - multiple Categories and links to Scheduled Reminders form.
7) Changed the appearance and some functions of the Schedule Reminder Facility
8) Added Rich Text formatting to the Reminder Window
8) Reorganised the Main Tool button bar - grouped items of a similar nature.
9) Added a Rotate 180 degrees function to the seating plans so its easier to show the plan on an Interactive White Board
10) Added functionality to the lesson Timings such that it now displays the lessons for the current days timetable rather than Lesson 1,2,3 etc. Obviously this will only be seen if a lesson plan can be found for the current day (based on the computers internal calendar)

11) Added a Group facility to the Address Book so that emails can be sent to specific groups of people simply and easily.

12) Added an Outlook Email facility to the Incident Reports so that incident reports can be emailed in HTML format to anyone (or Group) in the address book. By default this sends the email automatically without seeing it but to do so requires that Outlook is setup with an emailing account on the computer. 

1) the Toolbars are now gradient filled although you can turn this off in the settings if you prefer. The gradient colours may be changed from the default in the settings panel.
2) The toolbar buttons now work better, there is no delay in waiting for the tooltip before you can click on a button.
3) The main applications background gradient function has been rewritten for more optimal performance when rendering.
4) In the register/grades/class lists 'What would you like to do today' options - the option to 'Edit a classes Timetable' has been added. This allows you to change the timetable for a specific class if your timetable changes during the year. This function requires considerable manipulation of the database and the regeneration of the register from the date selected.
5) The option to 'Archive a Class' has also been added to the 'What would you like to do today' options of the register/grades/class lists facility.
6) In the timetable - changes are now saved automatically however the save button on the menu is the only way to save changes made in the timetable to the Daily Planning sheet. The icon and tooltip has been changed to reflect this change. Changes made to none teaching periods are also changed in the planning but any colours selected for these periods are not displayed.
7) In the Calendar of Events there is now a Daily Time plan and a Working Week Time plan ie 1 day and 5 days similar to outlook
8) In the timetable there is now the option to reverse the timetable and have Horizonal Periods instead of Vertical ones. The export to word for this however still only exports in the default format at present.
9) Fixed a bug with creating a seating plan for the first class in the list of classes.
10) Added the ability to create a database for up to 12 periods instead of the current 9 periods per day. I should now be able to extend this even further if required. This has meant that the DailyPlan1.dot template has had to be changed since exporting a daily plan for more than 9 periods required a larger table in the template. The template should be replaced automatically in the upgrade process.
11) Changed the layout (a little) for the Daily plan so that not so much space is wasted at the top and bottom of the page. In this way Users who have a large number of Periods per day will have a little more space to see their daily planning entries in.
12) Added a TIme Line facility based on the timings you enter in the Timetable Settings Panel. I'm not sure what I want to do with this Time Line facility as yet so any suggestions would be good.
 

In the last upgrade, the changes made to allow class codes in the timetable to be reflected in the daily planning sheet had a detrimental effect on many other functions throughout the program. If a change was made to the caption of a class on the timetable it would show up on th eplanning but things like the weekly plan, history viewer, word exports, planning imports etc would stop working. I have had to make considerable changes to get these working again and leave the ability to change the class captions in the planning sheet via the timetable. If you come accross something that doesn't work as it did before you changed a class caption in the timetable please let me know. 

1) When selecting a filelink the name of the link is automatically populated with the selected files name.
2) added keyboard shortcuts for bold, italic and underline - Ctrl+B, Ctrl+I ctrl+U respectively to edit boxes that have a formatting toolbar.
3) In the grades sheet - the sort/query panel now also contains a Detail Tab for setting extra options for each grade column. The extra options include a Due date, a Set Date, a linked File and a Comment. This is also where the average for the column data is shown.
4) When the register/grades form is already open and the seating plan is selected the seating plan will now attempt to automatically load the same
class and highlight the same pupil as is currently selected in the register/grades form.
5) When the classcode displayed in the timetable is changed and saved then this should now show up in the planning sheets as well. Changes can only be made in the timetable and editing the classcode in the daily planning sheet has now been disabled.
6) a bug which caused the sofware to crash when exporting a cover sheet of a class that has no pupils entered into it has now been fixed.
7) Keycodes used in the class register can now be set to any colour font. This should allow the register and trends to be more easily seen. Simply go to Settings - Register/Grades and then click on a Register key code to see the option to change it's colour.
8) As requested by someone a while back - In the register/grades/class list form you can now scroll through the "select a class" dropdown using the up/down keys as long as it has the focus. The tab key swaps the focus between the select a class dropdown and the pupil class list.

1) If you add room numbers to the timetable then they will also appear in the daily planning under the period number.
2) The display of the month icon in the calendar of events facility has been fixed
3) Added the option to schedule items every Fortnight and every month as well as daily and weekly items.
4) Added the option to schedule a file or program to be opened.
5) Added mean averages to the grades Stats display tab.
6) Fixed the problem below.

The webupdate program now included within the software has also been changed and after installing or upgrading please check to see that you now have ver 1.0.0.1 of the file WebUpdt.exe
 

This problem manifested itself in such as way that any function that involved the Microsoft Data Control would crash the program. Only users that had not already installed a version of TPIM lower than 1.6.08 were affected. The reason for this problem was a missing dll file which was thought not to be needed now that the grid control has been updated. Unfortunately, the data control also requires this file and it has taken a considerable amount of time and effort to track this down, due to the lack of support available for the intrinsic VB6 controls.

My apologies for any inconvenience caused to any individuals. Should you still have this problem it is recommended that you download the latest version and install over the top of your current version. Alternatively you can find a link to downloading the missing file in the FAQ.

1) added the option to export lesson resources for a time period rather than a select class (science teachers)
2) added the ability to display the last used tab in the short term plan automatically
3) removed an error message with the grade colour selector when moving a column
4) replaced the Toolbar throughout the software - shouldn't notice much difference but it should work better - (gradient highlighted buttons - option to change toolbar colour) - all toolbars are now the same size
5) Changed the colour of the text for highlighted cells in the Register/grades grid so that its easier to read when highlighted.
6) Changed the colour of the inactive tab text in the settings panel so they are easier to read.
7) Bug fixed when deleting a class that has more than one seating plan attached to it. This bug also effected the correct functioning of the Archive facility.

 

This is a major update and requires a reinstall of the application. Existing users can install over the top of the current version without a problem, just download, extract and install.

1) The grid control used in the register and grades has been replaced by another grid control that provides more flexability. So far using this grid I have added
a) colours to the even rows for better definition which may be changed in the settings panel
b) any cell in the register that contains a lesson note should display a small red tag in the corner of the cell.
c) the ability to select a cell or group of cells and set the background colour in the grades sheet
d) the ability to select a group of cells and copy the data to the clipboard
e) better splitting of the key/Notes panel in the register when resizing.

2)The settings panel now contains a place to add a Proxy Server address and port ID used. By adding your schools proxy server settings, you can check for internet upgrades and upgrade from school. This will not effect your ability to upgrade when at home because the program automatically detects if a proxy server is being used to connect to the internet.

3) The internet upgrade facility has been changed again to adapt better to future changes. Upgrading via the built in upgrade facility prior to this version will either download and install a single file upgrade without having to reboot or when required download a special setup file and run a reinstallation without having to reboot.
 

1) Item 9 of ver 1.6.7 caused a bug in adding a new class from the Register/Grades/Class Lists facility. This only affected  databases that contained a single (not biweekly) timetable - this has now been fixed.

1) fixed a bug with the scheduler - clicking on edit or delete when there were no scheduled tasks would crash the program.
2) Fixed a small bug with adding a scheduled homework in the daily plan and then swapping to the weekly plan would cause the item to be displayed in other homework fields that should not contain this item.
3) Added the options to schedule weekly/fortnightly items to the context menu of the weekly plan
4) Added the option to see more of the individual sections in the Short Term Plan Tabs. Just click on any of the box captions for Starter, Main Activity, Homework, Plenary etc to expand the box. Click again to restore the box size.
5) You can now move directly from a weekly plan view of a lesson to the Short Term Planning for this lesson by using the toolbar button in the Weekly View or double clicking on the Title of the lesson.
6) Added a context menu to the right-click of the Lesson Title in the weekly plan so that it matches the context menu of the Daily Plan.
7) Added the text highlighter to the weekly planning view.
8) Under certain types of database corruption - TPIM would simply crash when trying to open the database. TPIM now prompts you about the database corruption and remains available for use. For more info on the type of corruption see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/182867/EN-US/
9) Fixed a bug with adding a new class not displaying in the correct week of a dual timetable if the Week allocations had previously been used to change the some weeks from week A to B or visa versa.

1) Made all imports and exports to excel Late Binding. This means there should no longer be any office version specific bug when exporting/importing to excel.
2) Made some small changes to the import functions for a class list from another TPIM database. (There was a bug when a notes category had been added to the class that was being imported)
3) Rewrote the function which imports the calendar of events from another TPIM datbase - (wasn't working very well)
4) Added an option to completely clear all entries from the COEs
5) Hopefully fixed a little bug in the Register Notes section.

1) Fixed a bug that stopped the paste lesson plan from becoming available when a lesson plan had been copied.
2) Changed the export to MS Word for the daily planning sheet so that it now uses the Word template (DailyPlan1.dot) TPIM will prompt to download this if it doesn't exist in the Templates folder.
3) Added an option in the Resources Section of the Lesson Plan to export the resources outlined to MS Word for multiple lessons.

Nothing special in this upgrade - just added a bit of extra error coding and corrected a few visibility problems caused by changes made in the previous 2 versions.

1) Fixed a problem with adding a Pupil ID number/code to the Pupil Information panel
2) Added the ability to import other field information when importing a class list from Excel.
If you have any of the following Column Titles in the class list Excel Sheet when you import the class list. TPIM will now add this information to the database. Column Titles are the same as the database field names:
      Sex, Address1, Address2, Address3, PostCode, Tel1, Tel2, Email, PID, Notes

Note - TPIM checks Row 1 titles for these names and stops checking for titles when if finds a Column with no title so don't use any empty columns between you data.

1) Added Excel Import and Export functions to the Calendar of events.
2) Integrated MSWord spell checks into the incident reporter and pupil notes categories.
3) Added a reset default positions button to the startup tab of the general settings page - hopefully this may help remove an intermittent error message when opening TPIM if one of the facilities has faulty registry position settings.

Note - If you are using version 1.6.1 you should now be able to use the built-in upgrade facility to upgrade to this version 1.6.2.

1) Added a Wizard which splits the pupil names from one column of an Excel spreadsheet into two columns (Surname and firstname) This was added primarily to help with acquiring data from SIMS.NET (NOVA-T) in a format suitable for import into TPIM.
2) Fixed a bug with adding file links in the weekly planning view which cause the software to shutdown.
3) Added a section in the short term lesson plan for Resources used in the lesson.
4) Fixed the import into COE from outlook so that only events entered for the current academic year will be imported.
5) Added a bulk class email option to the pupil information sheet. Holding the control key down whilst clicking the email button to any pupil will add any other pupil email addresses in this class to the Blind Carbon Copy field.
6) There are several routines within the software that allow the import of data from another TPIM database or archive database. If these databases were password protected these routines would crash the program. This has now been fixed and will prompt for the database password before importing.
7) Added a IMPORT PLANNING WIZARD in order to be able to import one or more lesson plans from another TPIM database. In this way lesson plans can be shared or a set of lessons for a specific class can be archived as a SOW or POS.
8) Added an option to be able to send the selected Month of the Calendar of Events to MS Word. The word template COE1.dot is required in the templates folder which you will be prompted to download if you upgrade and doesn't have this file.

Please NOTE:

There was an error in the changes made to the built in upgrade feature in ver 1.6.0. As a result of this it is not possible to upgrade to ver 1.6.1 using this feature. Please download the whole program and install over the current installation.
 

1) added a better registration routine which doesn't require registry information and will work better with school network logins. (This may require that you re-enter your registration code after upgrading depending on your current version)
2) Added template facility for exporting a cover sheet to word. Cover1.dot
3) Added a category for the notes made in the register panel for each pupil per lesson to be viewed in the Note Categories Section added in version 1.5.002. This category will always be available and cannot be deleted. It collates all the notes that you make in the register notes panel and allows you to see them all in one go without having to export.
4) With the new notes category - added an Export to Word button on the toolbar which uses the templates Notes1.dot for register notes and Category1.dot for any of the other categories that you add. Category notes are exported for the whole class into a table in the word document.
5) Changed the built in internet upgrade facility to help users to upgrade from within the application and provide more upgrade flexibility in the future.
6) When exporting a coversheet the register will now be sorted in alphabetical order via surname as apposed to the order in which the names are stored in the database.
7) Added a summary tab to the Pupil Information panel which gives attendance figures, lesson notes, incidents etc for the selected pupil.
 

1) fixed a couple of bugs with the Incident Reporter which was not saving the correct details for the first incident entered if another incident was created immediately afterwards.
2) fixed the calendar control display - which wasn't showing the selected date as highlighted
3) Added Copy/Paste Plan options to the right-click menu of the daily planning period. This allows you to select a lesson that you have already planned for and copy it then paste it into another lesson. All the short term plan information is copied together with any file links for the planning. Pasting a lesson plan will remove any information already entered into the plan prior to pasting.

4) Added the ability to resize the Post-it notes and set their Title Captions independently of each other.