Donna Young's Homeschool V-Planner - Contents

Contents of Help Files for The V Planner

Latest version - V Planner V2.5-DT

This page will serve as a topic index of the help files for the V Planner. Many of the links will be repeated under applicable headings.

Attendance Attendance is marked on the Days sheet by entering a Y in each student's column next to the dates.

• Attendance is marked at the "Days" sheet
• Mark Attendance and an attendance caveat with beginning and ending term dates

Back-up

• Backing up Your V Planner
• Managing / Saving Your Lesson Plans for Later

Book Lists The book list is or can be the same as the reading list. The list is entered at the Data sheet

Bump Column The bump column is in V Planner DT. It allows you to customize class dates for each class without touching the list of lesson plans. Keep in mind that the Bump column is linear. You cannot schedule a lesson from two weeks ago amid lesson plans that are scheduled for this week. THAT is what the number set system is for - scheduling any lesson at any time.

• How to use the Bump Column
• Missing a Class When the Bump Column is Fully Set-up
• Missing a Class or Rescheduling a Class
• Example of Class with a Monday, Wednesday, Friday Sequence
• Negative Numbers in the Bump Column
• Making a Lesson Plan or Comment Not Show in Planners

Calendar The Calendar is not the school calendar. It is more of a personal organizer. Items from Calendar appear on some planners and the Today sheet.

• The Calendar Sheet
• At Days - Mark the School Calendar - Setting the Official School Days

Course of Study The COS sheet gets information from Data. The COS is a "report" sheet. No information is entered into the COS sheet.

• The COS Sheet

Curriculum The books that you are using for curriculum are listed on the Data sheet. From there the book titles are sent to the S-Sheets and the COS. "Additional" books are sent only to COS.

Date System The date system is one of two ways to send lesson plans to planners. The date system use only those planners that have in the Tab name "-D". The date system uses the dates from the S-Sheets to send lesson plans. The date system is not connected in any way to the Number System.

Dates There are two types of dates in the V Planner - official school dates and dates that are not official school dates. An official school date is made or unmade at Days.

• Mark the School Calendar - Setting the Official School Days
• Set the Dates for the Lesson Planners
• Mark Attendance

Days Set official school dates, mark attendance, set the dates for the planners at Days

• The Days Sheet
• Mark Attendance
• Mark the School Calendar
• Set Planner Dates
• Each Term Grader must use official school dates for the Beginning and Ending Dates

Dynamic Term Average Record is "pinned" at the top of every S-Sheet. Use it to highlight the current term. Highlighting the current term helps you place the grades correctly in columns F-I. See this video: V-Planner - Videos - S-Sheets - The Dynamic Term Average Record

Grades Grades are counted and averaged only after you have 1. Set up Terms in Column D and 2. Activated grade columns in Term Calculators

• See Video regarding setting up terms and activating grade columns

Grade Cards Grade card can be used only after you have 1. Set up Terms in Column D and 2. Activated grade columns in Term Calculators

• Donna Young's Homeschool V-Planner Report Cards

Grading Terms A grading term is a portion of the school year. In that school year portion (term), grades are averaged and attendance is counted. In the V Planner you can have 1 to 6 grading terms. There are report cards for 2-term, 3-term, 4-term, 5-term, and 6 term school years. The Term Grade Average Calculators that make all this possible are located on the S-Sheets.

• The V Planner- Grading Terms

Lesson Plans

• Managing / Saving Your Lesson Plans for Later
• V Planner DT- Adding Lesson Plans

Lesson Planners There are 4 Dynamic Lesson Planners and each student has a Daily and a Weekly Lesson Planner. The All planner and the DPT planner is designed for the parent.

• Set the Dates for the Lesson Planners
• Video - Choose Name in Dynamic Planners and Resizing Rows
• Video - V-Planner - Choosing Lessons for a Planner

Lists Lists is a sheet in the V Planner. The name is descriptive - lists are typed here. In V Planner V2, Lists has set aside 6 columns for six particular lists. One for each student, one for your "Notes" topics, and a list for the "Today" greetings. The student lists can be picked up by some of the lesson planners: Daily Planner Cell C12, The WkS# Planners, and Dynamic Planners DPV and DVH

Navigating the V Planner I have placed links to some of the sheets that I think will be used most. The links in the V Planner will work as long as the Tab Names are not changed.

• Navigating the V Planner

Number System1-5 - The numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 are used at the Tabs: Days and all of the S-Sheets. The numbers do nearly the same thing - The numbers reserve a slot of the planners. Numbers at "Days" reserves a date slot on the planners. Numbers at the "S-Sheets" reserve a lesson plan slot on the planners. Read more at the links listed below.
Note- DT planners do not use the Number System. The two systems for sending lesson plans are completely independt of each other. This means that you can use either one any time one is better over the other. If you want to schedule lessons out of order, use the Number System, otherwise; the Date System usually would work in most cases.

• Use Numbers 1-5 to Set the Dates for the Lesson Planners
• Use Numbers 1-5 to send Lessons to the Lesson Planners - Marking Column A
• Video - V-Planner - Choosing Lessons for a Planner

Planners ( the same as Lesson Planners, above)

• Set the Dates for the Lesson Planners Number System
• Video - Choose Name in Dynamic Planners and Resizing Rows
• Video - V-Planner - Choosing Lessons for a Planner
• The Row Planner L#-D for DT
• The 7-Day Planners in DT
• The 6-Day WkS#-D Planners in DT - How to Unhide Day 6

Planner Dates The dates for the planners are set in the Days sheet.

• Set the Dates for the Lesson Planners Number System

Random Entries placed in the cells in the Random sheet appear randomly on the Today sheet.

• The Random Sheet

Reading List The reading list is the same as the Book List. The list is entered at the Data sheet. The book list appears on the COS sheet.

Report Card V Planner has 5 report card sheets and one transcript. Read more at the links below.

• Donna Young's Homeschool V-Planner Report Cards
• Donna Young's Homeschool V-Planner Transcript

S-Sheets Huge and useful and full of data are the S-Sheets. S stands for student. At S-Sheet you will: Enter Lesson Plans and Teacher's Notes, Define Grading Terms, Set up the active grading columns and after all of that - which is that much, you will come back to the S-Sheets to select lesson plans for the planner and to add grades. There are many help pages for the S-Sheets. One set of help files is redundant, but I added the set just in case it would be easier to use. I've crossed linked the help files to make your bunny trails through the files more productive.

Filed Under S-Sheets
• Overview By Columns
  • Col-A
  • Col-B
  • Col-C
  • Col-D
  • Col-E
  • Col-F, G, H, I
  • Col-J
  • Col-K
  • Col-L
  • Col-U
• Marking A Column
• Lesson Plans
• Terms
• Term Calculators
• Err
• Grades
• Dynamic Term
• Time
• Credits & GPA

School Calendar / School Dates The school calendar is marked at Days

• Mark the School Calendar

School Terms A school term in the V Planner is the same thing as a grading term. The grading term is a portion of the school year. In that school year portion (term), grades are averaged and attendance is counted. In the V Planner you can have 1 to 6 grading terms. There are report cards for 2-term, 3-term, 4-term, 5-term, and 6 term school years. The Term Grade Average Calculators that make all this possible are located on the S-Sheets.

Standardized Tests On the Data sheet you can record up to three standardized test names and test scores. The information is then sent to the Report Cards and the Transcript.

Tabs Shown at the bottom of the sheets, the tabs are named by me and I made them colorful too. =p

• Navigating the V Planner

Teacher's Notes Teacher's notes are related to lesson plans. While typing the lesson plans into Column B of the S-Sheets, you can enter teacher's notes in Column C. Teacher's notes are sent to these sheets: student planner - DP-S-T, student planner - DPT, the planners "Daily#", and the Report Sheet - PR-S.

Terms All of the 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1 and 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2 that you see on the S-Sheets are defining grading terms

• The V Planner- Grading Terms
• The Dynamic Term Average Record
• Term Calculators
• Videos - The Dynamic Term Average Record
• Videos - S-Sheet Setting up a Grading Term
• Mark Attendance - an attendance caveat with beginning and ending term dates

Term Grade Column Names This is the name that you give a grade column once you make it active by giving it a weight. This is done in the Term Calculators. See also Videos - S-Sheet Setting up a Grading Term

Terminology

• Terminology

Today The today sheet greets you with some information. Donna Young's Homeschool V-Planner - Today Sheet

Transcript There is a one-year transcript included with the V Planner. Donna Young's Homeschool V-Planner Transcript

Weights This refers to how much a grade counts into the total pool of other grades.

 

 

 

 

 

Donna Young
May, 2011