Activity Overload

Some of the feature requests we get from users are so forehead-slapping-ly obvious, we can't believe we didn't think of them ourselves. Such is the case with a very common-sense observation made by Beth A White (Special School District) in an email she sent to me last month (Sep 25):


HI- I would really like to have a spot where I could list one activity for a group, instead of having to retype all the same activity for the 5 kids I might have at the same time. Is this possible?... I guess I could cut and paste, but ... just wondering if there was another way. Beth


What she's asking for makes a lot of sense. In most cases, if you're working with a group, you will be working on the same activity with all the kiddos present. That's why we decided to go ahead and make the adjustment for her (and for all of you) as quickly as possible. The scheduling form is something we modify with great care and only after serious though, because it's such a critical part of our website, but in this case I felt it was important to go ahead and get the project done. Here's the result:

As you can see, there's a new button below every activity, and it does exactly what Beth was looking for.  Have 5 students in your group and want to use the same activity for all of them?  Just add all your students to the group like usual, then fill in the activity for one of them and press the button right below it.  Like the label says, it will take that activity and copy it into every other student's first activity box, saving you the effort of retyping it or copying and pasting several times.

As we've said before, we want to help you improve your workflow wherever we can.  Do you have ideas or suggestions for ways to improve this application?  Leave us a comment, and we promise we'll do everything we can to make it happen.

~Ethan