Virtual Enrollment Party

Reading other people's blogs can sometimes be productive. I just found the following site by going to Anne Adrian's blog (she's from Auburn and writes some interesting posts about social networking), then following a link to a Twitter account called "ittotd" which stands for IT Tip of the Day... and that led me to this Microsoft site. Never underestimate the power of social networks on the web!

Anyway, I know that some of you have new computers, and that they may have been pre-loaded with Office 2007, which has a very different look and feel than the previous version. It'll do the same things (maybe more), but it does them in a completely different way, which can lead to frustration, and in my case, lower productivity. It took me longer to get things done. So I solved the problem by uninstalling Office 2007 and reinstalling Office 2003, and I'm happy.

In case you'd like to EMBRACE new technology, rather than IGNORING it, go to the training site on the Microsoft website that has some comprehensive lessons on various tasks you might be doing in Office 2007.

Posted by Becky at 01:23 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I've had several questions in the past couple of weeks, all related to project codes, and most related to this year's winner of the "We Should Have Thought About that Twice" Award--Horseless Horse.

Horseless Horse has been project 1214. REAL Horse Level 1 was project 1211. The problem was that although that was Level 1, the project literature we use for the project has "Level 2" in its title, & Level 1 of that curriculum is Horseless Horse. That seemed to be too confusing, so a decision was made (and nobody asked me) to re-number and re-name all the horse projects, assigning current numbers to different projects. That's where the problem came in.

How does this affect your enrollment process? Well, it's giving us a great opportunity to know who has installed the project and lit file updates. If you are trying to enter a project enrollment for 1210 (Horseless Horse) and it's telling you it's an invalid code, it's because you haven't done those updates. They are available on the BR Updates webpage, along with instructions for downloading/installing.

A few key facts: Installing now will NOT affect any enrollments you already have done. There were many price changes in the literature, so if you DON'T install them, not only will you have the Horseless Horse Issue, but also your lit orders will not add up the same in BR as they do on the web order form. You only have to do this installation ONCE, regardless of how many computers are loaded with Blue Ribbon. And, finally, you should not log in as Administrator when you do this.

Posted by Becky at 09:39 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)