Assign and Easy Hour Assignments With Excel Software for Windows

StudyMinder Lite
$0 - StudyMinder Software

StudyMinder LITE free student planner for Windows helps students get organized and get better grades. StudyMinder LITE organizes assignment information and records study time. StudyMinder LITE shows the total time you need to prepare for school each day and whether all your assignments are completed. You can even share your assignment instructions with classmates.

StudyMinder Lite has dozens of features for organizing homework that are not available in a general purpose software planner:

- Track assignments, tests and quizzes, even large projects
- See all of your assignments at a glance - by class, day and week
- List your assignments by difficulty, estimated time, status, type and more
- Displays the amount of time you need to study for each assignment
- View your total study time by assignment, class, day and week
- Lets you share assignment instructions with your classmates

StudyMinder LITE is especially helpful for managing large projects. The total amount of homework due and the estimated completion time are always shown, so you won't wait until it's too late. As you complete some of the project each day, StudyMinder LITE updates the time remaining. You can record up to 99 study sessions for each assignment.

StudyMinder LITE is designed to help students of all ages get better grades. Using StudyMinder Lite, you'll be able to see how much time you are studying for each class, and the grades you receive for each assignment. With this information, you'll know where to focus your efforts to improve and maintain your grades.

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Keyboard Manager Deluxe
$29.95 - Polyphony Software

Keyboard Manager Deluxe provides you with the power to assign shortcuts, text, and objects to over 350 keyboard hotkeys or key combinations for automatic, click-free activation and pasting.

You can create shortcut functionality for drives, folders, programs and other file types, the control panel, printers, DOS applications, Internet webpages, and other items. You can press hotkeys to run programs, or applications, such as the calculator program, to open files or folders, such as the Documents folder, or to access your favorite Internet webpages.

With text functionality, you can assign plain text to key combinations for pasting. You can press hotkeys to paste instantly assigned text into window text boxes and documents.

Object functionality enables you to assign entire files, folders, images, sounds, formatted text, and other objects to key combinations for pasting. You can press hotkeys to paste these objects into active windows. For example, you can press key combinations to paste assigned images into other images, within photo-editing programs. You can press hotkeys to copy assigned files into desired folders.

Keyboard Manager includes a main, keyboard window, which contains a standard keyboard layout. Here, you can select key combinations for functionality assignment creation and editing. An assignment list window provides a quick-reference to existing combination assignments.

Each hotkey or key combination consists of one primary key, and, optionally, one or two companion keys. The primary keys include function keys (F1 through F12), letter keys, number keys, the space key, punctuation keys, directional keys, and editing keys. The companion keys are the Shift, Ctrl, and Alt keys. Examples are F9, Alt + Q, and Shift + Ctrl + Backspace. Keyboard Manager represents key combinations in two formats: graphical and text.

The Keyboard Manager Network version empowers multiple users to share the same hotkey assignments.

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StudyMinder Homework System
$29.95 - StudyMinder Software

The StudyMinder Homework System is an electronic student planner for Windows that helps students of all ages, from middle school and high school to college level, track their grades, prioritize assignments and better manage their study time. StudyMinder shows the total time needed to prepare for school each day and the status of all assignments. Students can even share assignment instructions with classmates. The latest version includes a series of video tutorials to get you started quickly. Take control, get organized and get it done with this powerful student planner.

The StudyMinder Homework System has dozens of features for managing homework that are not available in a general purpose software planner:

- Track assignments, tests and quizzes, even large projects
- See all assignments at a glance - by class, day and week
- List assignments by difficulty, estimated time, status, type and more
- Be reminded about upcoming assignments and projects
- Displays the amount of time needed to study for each assignment
- View total study time by assignment, class, day and week
- Calculates current grade point average for each class
- Lets students share assignment instructions with your classmates

The StudyMinder Homework System is especially helpful for managing large projects. The total amount of homework due and the estimated completion time are always shown, so students won't wait until it's too late. As you complete some of the project each day, StudyMinder updates the time remaining. You can record up to 99 study sessions for each assignment.

StudyMinder shows how much time is spent studying for each class, and the grades received for each assignment. With this information, students know where to focus their efforts to improve and maintain their grades. Along with the student planner, StudyMinder also includes a Task list and Event calendar.

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School Bus Driver and Route Schedules
$249 - Shift Schedules

Need help scheduling your school bus fleet to daily routes and assigning qualified drivers to those buses and routes? This Excel spreadsheet keeps track of which drivers are qualified for each route and lets you assign them to two shifts a day (morning and afternoon or any other 2 shifts) each day for a month. Built-in logic keeps you from assigning unqualified drivers to routes and also prevents you from assigning drivers to overlapping shifts. When you are finished assigning buses to routes and drivers to buses, simply click a button to send the schedule to everyone by e-mail. It just can't get any easier than that. No more missed routes and no more assigning drivers to routes they are not qualified to navigate. Spreadsheets are available for 50, 100, 200 and 300 buses and drivers and 100, 200, 400 and 500 routes. You can download any of these spreadsheets and use them on a free trial basis for evaluation.

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Easy Shift Scheduler for Excel
$99 - Shift Schedules

Specify your daily shifts and then assign them to up to 25 people using drop-down menus of available shifts. Shifts are removed from the menu as they are assigned and when the menu is empty you are done. Created to schedule nurses, but can be used to schedule anyone to daily shifts and it keeps track of shifts for 3 different groups. Employee vacations can be entered and you are prevented from assigning shifts to employees who are on vacation.

The Easy Shift Scheduler saves you scheduling headaches and time by allowing you to simply specify your daily shifts and then assign them to up to 25 people using drop-down menus of available shifts. Shifts are removed from the menu as they are assigned and when the menu is empty you are done for the day. Repeat a few times and before you know it you have easily created a 2 week schedule. The program keeps track of shifts for 3 different groups of employees and was created to schedule nurses, but can be used to schedule anyone to daily shifts.

Up to 10 vacation periods for each employee can be entered in the vacation table and you are prevented from assigning shifts to employees who are on vacation. Outputs include individual and team schedules, an employee hours summary, a file that you can e-mail to selected employees and a file that you can import into your Outlook Calendar, PDA or Smart Phone so your schedules will always be available for easy reference.

The Excel spreadsheets are available in sizes to schedule 25, 50 and 100 employees and can be downloaded from our website and used on a free trial basis for evaluation. Other easy-to-use spreadsheets to schedule your people to daily tasks or daily hours are also available.

Spreadsheets for other scheduling applications are available at the website.

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SQLBox
$30 - Harry Doldersum

SQLBox - the SQL assignment processor.

Using SQLBox, you can retrieve, edit or otherwise modify large amounts of database information with a single assignment. Any viewable result data, is instantly displayed on a view grid. The contents of both the tab pages (the assignment and it's result) are instantly printable, by using the print assignments (through a preview window, allowing you to judge your page before actually printing it.

A full SQL enabled User Report Generator (URD) is included, allowing you to do in-depth SQL reporting. The URD also reports to both screen and printer.

Simple, quick and easy. Shareware: registration costs US$30, with free upgrades and support.

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