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June 2006: Version 1.2 of
Liberator MS was
released which incorporated a new report card format,
and additional middle school subjects.
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May 2006: Woodward IT held a professional development
course on Curriculum Liberator for Bethania Lutheran
College, tutoring over 20 teachers in a single setting.
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April 2006 & June 2006: Woodward IT modified a version
of Curriculum Liberator for Bentley Park College in Cairns
which encompassed both Junior and Middle School functionality.
This version encompassed a Rubricks style marker board and
report card format.
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April 2006: April saw
Curriculum Liberator
modified for a New Basics special school. Claremont Special School
near Ipswich tailored the application to fit their special
needs.
The output for the final product hardly resembles the
North Lakes version but shows the power of personalised
software.
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January 2006: The first major development on
Curriculum Liberator
for another school was completed. The entire Townsville Catholic
diocese purchased the software and made a range of personalisations
including the Religious Education outcomes and elaborations.
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November 2005: Woodward IT was involved with
Curriculum Liberator
conferences in Townsville and Brisbane as a co-presenter
that saw many schools adopt the program. Woodward IT ran a full
day of the conference providing hands-on experience for 20
teachers at a time.
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August 2005: Development of Liberator MS version 1.0 was completed and is being
tested by North Lakes. Liberator MS is a middle school version of
Curriculum Liberator that
caters for years 7 to 9. The differences for the middle school
version include:
- Replacement of tasks with subjects
- Outcomes and elaborations for: Agricultural Education, Business,
Home Economics, Industrial Technology and Design, Information and
Communications Technology
- Students are linked with each subject and not the entire
discovery quest. In this way subjects can be treated as electives
- A bank of report card comments can be populated.
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April 2005: Version 1.1 of Curriculum Liberator was developed for North Lakes
State College. The new version contained the following modifications:
- The new Queensland mathematics syllabus
- Mathematics elaborations and core content
- The ability to record comments against tasks for a student or group
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January 2005: An intranet application known as
Communicator was developed
by Woodward IT to manage the needs for a growing school. The application
is extremely functional and provides the following:
- Daily Notices
- Calendar Management
- Absentees
- Staff Contact
- Policy & Procedural Framework
- Professional Development
- Room Hire
- Minutes of Meetings
- Shop Orders
- Document Management
- Maintenance Requests
- Todo Items
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April 2004: Woodward IT was asked to create a 4 page colour
brochure on Curriculum Liberator, a multimedia CD of Curriculum
Liberator in action, and a demo version of the software for the
Queensland Education Showcase Awards. The multimedia presentation
was an interactive CD featuring voice and screen capture in a
real time environment.
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October 2003 - February 2004: Woodward IT was asked
by North Lakes State College, to enable their planning philosophy
into a manageable desktop application. As a result of an extensive
user requirements phase and detailed specification documents, the
application known as
Curriculum Liberator
was born.
The user requirements analysis was composed of interviews with
teachers and administration staff, in order to come to terms with
the new concept of outcomes based education and level attainment.
The application had to be modelled similar to the existing school
planning practices already carried out at North Lakes State College.
One of the major steps in the project was the development of a
graphical functional design specification. Instead of dot points
of the required functionality, draft GUI documents were used with
the functionality listed against each button/widget. This allowed
the customer to readily identify and approve the agreed functionality
needed. The user interface was slightly modified to appear much
more "user-friendly" while still being feature rich.
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