Toolbox Support Closed 7/03/09(Friday) Through 7/06/09(Monday) Thursday, July 2,2009
Our Toolbox support office will be closed in connection with the national holiday starting Friday July-3 and will reopen on Wednesday-7.
Our Toolbox support office will be closed in connection with the national holiday starting Friday July-3 and will reopen on Wednesday-7. We will be checking voice mail messages and email, so if you have an emergency please leave a message at 828-414-4536 or send an email to toolbox@learningfocused.com. You may continue to use Toolbox during this time. Have a great day!
Toolbox 4.0 Release Coming Soon! Try it Now! Thursday, June 25,2009
We Invite You to Try Our Beta Version of Toolbox Before its Released!
Learning-Focused will be releasing a new version of Toolbox in the coming weeks. As a result, we have decided to allow our members to sign in and preview the upcoming changes on a special beta site. You can sign in with the same email address and password that you currently use with Toolbox. The appearance and layout of the Unit and Course planner is different from our current version. However, the basic concepts that drive Toolbox unit and course planning stay intact. The next version will not only fix some of the bugs that we have had in the past but make your planning simpler. Quickly get started by clicking on the Toolbox Beta Version image above or the link below. You will need to sign into our beta version. Remember that any work that you do here will not be saved. Also, please realize that this is not a finished product, so you may find glitches here and there. We are looking forward to your feedback and comments! Click Here to Provide Feedback!
Welcome to our new online Twitter presence! Friday, June 5,2009
Learning-Focused is Now Twittering!
Learning-Focused has joined twitter! We think it is great way to stay in contact with our appreciated clients. We will be sending out tips, announcements,feedback request, and everything else you can think of! We excitedly invite you to follow us on twitter! Click on the twitter image to access our twitter profile page...
The Learning-Focused Summer Institute on Sustaining Exemplary Practice Tuesday, May 12,2009
The Learning-Focused Summer Institute on Sustaining Exemplary Practice
Included workshops are Toolbox Training,Toolbox Administrator Training, Learning-Focused Strategies Model (Part 1) - Transforming Standards into Learning, Actualizing your Power Curriculum, and much more! This will be held in Greensboro, NC on July 13-17, 2009.
Notice:Sharing Your Documents Friday, March 13,2009
You may have noticed that when you right click on a document on the "My Dashboard" page, the sharing feature is not there under "Utilities". Currently, the Sharing feature has to be accessed from the "Toolbox Explorer" page. Navigate to the "Toolbox Explorer" page by clicking on Tools...Explorer. Once there, you will find the sharing feature in the right click menu under "Utilities" for your documents. Thank you for your patience. We are working on this and will keep you informed of new updates concerning this.
Toolbox Planner Update! Tuesday, February 24,2009
We are pleased to announce that the Toolbox development team has finalized a software update for the Toolbox planner that not only fixes some of the issues we’ve heard about, but also introduces several cool new features.
In this latest update you will find:
Click and Drag Feature on the Acquisition Lessons Decision: Toolbox has a new feature that lets you click and drag preloaded Activating Strategies, Graphic Organizer titles, Extending Thinking Activities, and Summarizing Strategies into your Acquisition Lessons.
Ability to Add Assessment Prompts: This new feature allows you to create Assessment Prompt(s) on the Acquisition Lesson decision. These prompts can then be clicked and dragged into the "Instruction" field found on the Acquisition Lesson decision.
Student Assessment Decision Change: The previous Student Assessment decision is now combined with the previous Culminating Activity decision.This new combined decision is called "Assessments". It is located beside the KUD decision.
Check out the Help Contents to learn what is new and how to use these new features.
Updating any program is something that takes a lot of effort to do –not only do teachers, trainers, programmers, and production designers all have to be involved at some point, but each change has to go through a rigorous Quality Assurance pass to make sure that it doesn't introduce any new issues (like corrupting old save data, for example). The entire process can take weeks for a simple day's worth of fixing!
Because of this, we're very aware that there are features that Toolbox Members have requested that aren't addressed in this software update. We want to make it very clear that we're listening to all of your requests, and actively want to get these features into Toolbox in the future –but when we do add them, we also want them to be 100% perfect, and not rushed just to make it into any specific software update.
Lastly, and most importantly, thanks for being an awesome community! There are changes in this software update that wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the well-reasoned and polite attitude that most of the members on Toolbox have. Thank you for contributing your ideas and suggestions! We look forward to providing you with great new features every month.
Do you know a teacher that needs a license to use Toolbox? If your school/district has purchased sets of Learning-Focused notebooks or flipcharts in the past year, complete the form on My Licenses to request keys. Learning-Focused is dedicated to providing Toolbox for planning and development for our workshop and book clients.
Learning Focused Collections Catalog Thursday, February 12,2009
Solutions For You!
Learning Focused has created a collection of tools and help that addresses your specific needs. Please download the Learning Focused Collections Catalog below...
Toolbox has a new feature that lets you customize what you see when you sign in. My Dashboard has everything you are familiar with –Create, My Documents, News, Tips, and My Curriculum –plus you can now have Course Timelines, Unit Timelines, My Groups, and more. My Dashboard lets you keep everything you need right at your finger tips! Have a look at a demo video below...
What is the Curriculum Editor Tool? Thursday, January 29,2009
What is the Curriculum Editor Tool?
The Curriculum Editor Tool is an exciting new feature that allows administrators to customize their groups' state standards and objectives. The customization of your standards includes adding, deleting, revising, editing, duplicating, and rearranging. This powerful tool helps schools and districts tailor their curriculum to the specific needs of their group. While Learning-Focused Toolbox Support continues to ensure that each State's standards are up-to-date, you now have the ability to have full control of the standards driving learning in your school or district. We have created a guide to provide you with assistance using this tool. This tool requires a license. See page 5 for more details. It is available for download...
