     This is a shareware version of this program and can be freely distributed.

     The Classroom Data Management System is a teacher tool which can be used
by classroom teachers to help keep track of student information.  There are
three main areas of data tracked: 

  1) Roster Information - includes student name, address, DOB, sex, phone 
     number, and contact name.  The roster will hold 36 students.  You can add
     to the database or display current information.  In the registered version
     you can also alter student roster data.

  2) Attendance Information - includes entries for every day of the year. 
     Teachers can set attendance data globally (all students in the roster) for 
     Holidays, Non-scheduled days, Conference days, and Days present (of course
     these can be set individually as well.)  In addition, they can set 
     absences, days tardy, and half days individually by student.  Summary 
     reports show the total number of student days, days present (number and 
     percent), days absent (number and percent), number of holidays, conference 
     days, suspensions, etc.

  3) Grade Information - Grades are tracked in ten categories (each is named by
     the teacher - e.g. Math, Science, Social Studies, etc. - and four sub-
     categories for each main category (homework, tests, projects, and misc.)
     Each grade can be individually weighted and has its own comment field.
     Grade are entered in percent format (0-100) for each student.  Reports 
     (which show averages as determined by weights) areavailable as 1) Summary 
     for all Categories  2) Summary for 1 Category  3) Summary for one Student 
     in all categories  4) Summary for one Student in one Category and one sub-
     category.  Weighting of grades is important since a quiz entered in the
     test subcategory certainly does not count as much in grading as a chapter
     or unit test.  Therefore you can weight quizes as 1, chapter tests as 3, 
     and unit tests as 5 (examples only).  This would mean the chapter test
     counts 3 times as much as the quiz, and the unit test counts 5 times as
     much.  Weights (and student grades) can be changed at any time.

     You can have up to 80 grades per subcategory per student which means that
     there can be up to 320 grades for each student in each catagory (320
     grades in science, for example.)  With ten categories to choose from, each
     student could have up to 3,200 grades entered for the school year.

     The shareware version is limited to the 1996 / 1997 school year while the
full version allows you to enter any starting year. Also, the shareware version
has a preset password - classroom (all lower case) - which cannot be changed. 
The registered version allows you to set the password to anything you want.

     This program requires a hard disk as the total disk space needed is nearly
2MB. It can be copied from the diskette (or unzipped to the hard drive) in any
directory (e.g. \CDMS).

     Using the program is quite simple as all the key functions available are 
displayed on the screen.  The only real keys used to control CDMS are the ENTER
key, F1, F2, F3, and the cursor keys.  To install the program, copy all of the
files from the diskette to the hard drive and type CDMS.  You will be prompted 
for the password (classroom).  Next, you will be told that the databases do not
exist and the program will automatically set them up for you.  Finally, you 
will be presented with the main menu.  Just follow the instructions as you go 
along.

     Classroom Data Management System is a nice tool for the classroom teacher 
to have.  It will help keep track of all of the information above in one, neat 
part of your computer's hard drive.  The shareware version may be distributed 
freely and the registered version costs only $25.00  Send a check or money 
order (no credit cards or purchase orders please) to:

                                William Jimerson
                                720 Margo Drive
                                Simi Valley, CA 93065

     I will rush you a diskette with the full program and a printed manual to
help explain some of the nice features of the Classroom data Management System.
If you have questions or comments, you can E-mail me at:

                                WJimer6887@aol.com
