Software Test Center

Beta Test Heroes

Here be the names of some of the heroic individuals who have generously volunteered their time to beta test Schoolhouse Technologies software. They have been instrumental in making your software not only more bug-free but more useful, more intuitive, and more comprehensive than it would otherwise be. They have played key roles in shaping the software you use today. We are most indebted to them.

Chris Wagers	Chris is a CompTIA A+ certified engineer and has been working with PCs and software for over a decade. He got off to a flying start on Schoolhouse Test 2 by finding several bugs in Schoolhouse Test 1 while just getting familiar with the software. Now that he's actually working with version 2 he's keeping us rather busy.
Henry Franco	Henry has given us a real puzzler: a bug that we know is there but can't duplicate. It's a real hair puller. UPDATE: We were finally able to duplicate it and fix it. Henry also suggested that there should be a way to deactivate a set of questions in the test. Done it is.
Rick Shannon	Rick uncovered a whole slew of problems: disappearing text on the start-up page, missing help documentation, and a matching question bug in the answer sheet view. We think we have those taken care of now. Rick also gave us a wish list for additional features. We've added the matching question and we're working on the others.
Anthony Kukuc	Anthony has been championing enhancements for the marks feature which didn't even exist in version 1. The only question now is how many of his suggestions we can incorporate into the program before the final release.
Paul Scarbro	Paul is keeping us current with test layout preferences in the UK. One such preference is the display of the assigned marks on the right hand side of each question rather than the left. And it is also suggested that the marks would stand out a bit more if they were in a box. You can visit Paul's school website at www.st-edwards.plymouth.sch.uk
Larry Kahn	Larry likes the general direction that Schoolhouse Technologies products are moving in and reminds us that today's busy educators just do not have the time to struggle with overly complex software. Just keep it as simple and user-friendly as possible.
Evon Gerace	Evon is a-stay-at home mom with two children (ages 7 and 10). A search for additional worksheet materials resulted in the regular use of Schoolhouse Tech products. Evon was one of the testers who recommended an easy way to add symbols to questions which resulted in the new Symbols dialog. A fill-in-the-blanks question is also on her wish list.
Kara Raymond	Kara teaches algebra and geometry and her number one wish for Schoolhouse Test is an equation editor something like the one in Microsoft Word. We're working on it but it may not make into the final release of version 2. But as soon as we have a working editor we will add it to the program as a minor update. Kara would also like more formatting and layout options, and a way to add a picture to each choice in the multiple choice question type.
Manuel Aroca	Manuel is a spanish teacher in south of France in Lycée Montaury, 30 Nîmes. He is also the administrator of the school LAN. The site is based on SPIP and it is an adaptation of it made by PIPEDU74 called EVA 2.0. Manuel discovered a critical error in Schoolhouse Test 2 which we were happily able to fix thanks to his detailed report.
Regina Holtze	Regina, from New York, helped us as we developed Math Resource Studio 4 by providing us with many suggestions and pointed out some bugs in the program too. Regina was able to provide us with some great usability testing.
Greg Johnson	Greg is a 4th grade teacher in Knox County Schools in Knoxville, Tennessee. He had helped beta test our programs for over a year and reported many errors over that time, including a handful of bugs in Math Resource Studio.
Richard Plecenik	Richard is a teaching assistant in the Wappingers Central School District in New York. He has been teaching remedial math to 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders who are at risk of failing the state math assessment test. After checking out every worksheet generating program and website that he could find, he settled on Mathematics Worksheet Factory as his number one choice. When given the opportunity to beta test Math Resource Studio, he had a few ideas and pointed out some minor bugs too.
Kirsten Rempel	Kirsten, from British Columbia, Canada, was able to provide us numerous suggestions for Math Resource Studio 4. Kirsten was an advocate of the new Math 4 program, even while it was still in beta testing, trying to get other teachers in her school to try it out as well.
Olivier Lembert	Olivier is using our software in France, and says that it may help someone to know that they can use our software in Europe more than the previous version. Olivier says that he's just a father trying to give good work for his children. They have all participating in the evaluation with him and gave him many ideas on how they could see the program should be for them.
Anthony Joe	Anthony teaches third grade in a public school in San Diego and has used the last several versions of the math programs from Schoolhouse Tech to push his students into more advanced and (more interesting) math. They like to work with basic algebra and reducing fractions. The students all have their own Windows computer to use all day, and sometimes make their own math worksheets with our programs.
Anita Angell	Anita, from West Sussex, UK, has over 15 years of IT experience and has identified some errors and made many suggestions to us. When Anita isn't making any of her great suggestions about for our programs, she is running the website www.howtosupportyourchild.com.
Paul A. Jones	Paul is a Mathematics teacher at Lynn Vocational Technical Institute, Lynn MA. He finds that there is a need for software such as that produced by Schoolhouse Technologies and anything he can do to help in the development will in the end help other mathematics teachers to convey the basic concepts for success in mathematics. Paul says that the key to learning is repetition in the basic areas and texts today do not offer this.
Jeannie Veitch	Jeannie, from New South Wales, Australia, was a great help to us when beta testing Math Resource Studio 4. Jeannie was able to point out bugs occuring in the Shopping Problems exercise set -- bugs that were actually returning incorrect answers -- as well as a bug regarding changing the location of a decimal within a number.
Nancy Johnson	Nancy is a fifth-grade teacher in Clearwater, Florida. She has used Schoolhouse Technologies software for years and has watched the company grow. Nancy writes, "I love the new Math Resource Studio, as it is very "teacher-friendly," much like the Schoolhouse Test software. Your products are a must for teachers. What a timesaver! I enjoyed my participating in the beta testing and would volunteer again in a heartbeat. Schoolhouse Tech software, customer service, everything...top notch and awesome."
Linda Johnson	Linda is from Alaska. She has been using Schoolhouse Technologies software for a number of years, so we appreciated her willingness to do some beta testing for us. Besides providing feedback to us, she also found a rather sticky glitch with Basic Subtraction that has taken some time to work out.