We made some major changes in this update. We wanted to get your feedback about the changes as soon as possible, so we are delivering these changes now, before we have finished testing to the level that we would if the product were publicly available. We believe they should work just fine, but if you run into anything that seems unusual or incorrect, please let us know right away.

The changes in this update include:

Both Classes and “Everything Else” activities can now have both Assignments (which get checkboxes) and Notes (which do not). There is a separate tab for Notes, where you can enter those. The “Every day” assignments will now have checkboxes, so that you can track which were completed each day.

You can now add additional assignments to the “Every day” section, so you can have multiple, checkable items every day

There is a new option in the “Show calendars for” menu that will let you hide recurring activities, like classes, to make it easier to see the exceptional items in your schedule (doctor’s appointments, etc).

The “all day” section of the weekly and daily calendars grows and shrinks to fit whatever activities you have scheduled there, and now will grow to almost the full height of the calendar if needed. There is also a new button (between the two sections) that will let you lock the height instead to a very small area at the top, if you need to see more of the time-scheduled events.

Assignments and notes that have more than one line of text will appear full-sized when you edit them, without having to click in them first to get them to resize.

Note that the change to the Assignments and Notes will change the way that “Every day” items appear. Previously, those were displayed without a checkbox; now they will have a checkbox. If you want to have that text again without a checkbox, cut and paste it from the Assignments tab onto the Notes tab.

Thanks again for participating in the Homeschool Planet Beta Test! Your help has already made the product better, and we look forward to hearing more of your thoughts and suggestions!