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I urge everyone to complain -- Scholastic has obviously made drastic decisions without worrying about the people who support them -- in fact for those of you who have gone to the enterprise version -- it does a lousy job of supporting a school wide program -- it looks like they are trying to mnake this a "clone" of another product... Many of the features that we have had for years are no longer availale in the Enterprise version -- but Scholastic said they would be back -- and I as yet - have not seen them.. Every time a new release is sent out - there is another problem -- we found another one -- and then discovered the patch to fix that problem created another problem. Since there is a new team handling RC/SRI -- quality appears to be gone.... I have voiced these opinions to Scholastic over and over again.... to no avail.... Paula Yohe Director Of Technology/Library Media Center Dillon School District Two 405 West Washington Street Dillon, SC 29536 Phone: 843-841-3604 Fax:843-774-1214 paula_yohe@yahoo.com --- On Tue, 9/2/08, Pete Madden <peteweihui@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > From: Pete Madden <peteweihui@GMAIL.COM> > Subject: [LM_NET] TARGET: MUST READ for Reading Counts Users > To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU > Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2008, 12:28 PM > Dear Librarians, > (As mentioned in a recent post) If you are using RC version > 3.3 or lower > (non-Enterprise versions) you will not be able to purchase > quiz disks > after November. Reading Counts wants us to migrate to their > Enterprise > Edition, this school year. > > My 20 RC workstations running MAC OS 9.2 cannot run the > Enterprise Edition > (requires OS X). Reading Count's solution to this is to > have our quiz > database "hosted" by them via the Internet and > charge me a per student fee > to do so. In other words, when students take a quiz, they > would take it over > the Internet and our report data would housed there as > well. > > As of this morning, they could not tell me the browser > version needed to > handle this connection to their server (RC tech support is > not aware of the > proposed change), but I'm betting it's a browser > that my OS 9.2 can't run. > > I'm very frustrated by Scholastic's decision. I > purchased RC 3.0 only two > years ago and spent thousands of dollars on quizzes for a > system that is > now unsustainable after November. Their effort to > communicate these changes > to us has been inadequate; I learned of these changes on > LM_Net, in spite of > just receiving a download disk in the mail last week that > made no mention of > this. To ask us to weather this change in the midst of the > school year shows > a serious lack of concern for the customer--the least they > could do is > continue to sell us quiz disks until May of '09 so we > can work on upgrading > over next summer. > > So I guess these are my options for this school year: > > 1. Don't add any more quizzes after November ( I have > 2,400 now) and write > the quizzes that I need for new releases > 2. Buy 20 new work station computers and the Enterprise > Edition > 3. Ask all of you who are in the same situation to band > together to help me > pressure SRC to postpone this change until the end of the > 08/09 school year > > I'm hoping # 3, with your help, will be the outcome. If > you'd like to help > me communicate this to Scholastic, please respond to this > email. > > > Sincerely, > > Pete > -- > Pete Madden > Librarian, Centennial Middle School > Portland, OR > peteweihui@gmail.com > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright > law. > You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET > postings > by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address > book. > To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: > listserv@listserv.syr.edu > In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET > LM_NET NOMAIL > 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * Allow for > confirmation. > * LM_NET Help & Information: > http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ > * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ > * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://lm-net.info/ > * LM_NET Supporters: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ven.html > * LM_NET Wiki: http://lmnet.wikispaces.com/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. 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