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Current
Release of RISC - Quick Details:
The current release of RISC for Windows
is v9.20AU, released 5 July 2010. Existing RISC users
from v5 upward are entitled to a discounted upgrade. Please check
the How to Order page for pricing and
ordering information. The new features included from v8.00AU to RISC v9.12AU include:
- RISC v9 has been updated to make it
compatible with and appropriate for recording data related to the "Positive
Behaviour for Success" program being implemented across many schools
in eastern Australia.
- A new password security system with
four different levels of access now included with RISC. These group
passwords can be allocated to staff members to give them an appropriate
level of access to RISC for their needs. In addition, it stops students
accessing RISC if they have managed to obtain a staff member's Windows
password. More information on this in the
Virtual Tour.
- It is no longer necessary to run
SETUP on every workstation that is to run RISC. Just host the RISC
program and data on a fileshare in your server and your staff
workstations will be able to run it simply by clicking a shortcut.
- A new RISC Alerts window has been
added. RISC executives and administrators can add "sticky-notes" against
any or all students providing useful and relevant information about the
student to other users of RISC. Two tabs of information can be
added for each student. More information on this in the
Virtual Tour.
- The RISC Type-Lookup can now have
"levels" values added to each entry. If you use RISC to track
discipline issues, negative values can be entered against each incident
Type. All of the students incidents are then tallied and an
overall LEVEL displayed against that students record, providing an
instant snapshot for the teacher of a students behaviour and attitude at
school. More information on this in the
Virtual Tour.
- The number of active archived
databases has doubled from 10 to 20.
- A new User-Definable data entry
field has been added to the RISC form, called Type2. By default, this
field is named "Motivation", but can be renamed as desired with an
appropriately set lookup table attached to it.
- A new entry in the Options menu
allows for the Deletion of a Contact record (with administrator
approval).
- The RISC Admin Student Database
Import for CASES21 (Victoria) was modified due to a change introduced by
the Victorian Education Department.
- RISC Admin Student Database Import
tool updated to allow for import from MAZE for the Queensland Catholic
Education System
- In the Database menu, a new entry
has been added to "Clear the Rebuild Flag". Whenever a rebuild of
indexes is being performed anywhere on your network, no other users will
be able to perform a rebuild. However, if the PC performing a rebuild
crashes or has a power failure during that rebuild, RISC does not know
that the Rebuild ever completed due to the Rebuild Flag being set in the
system. This new function clears that flag very quickly and can be run
by any user with write access to the RISC database.
- A "Spell Check Text Fields..."
button was introduced to the main RISC form. This uses the spelling
checker from Microsoft Word to check the spelling in the two large text
fields on the RISC form.
- The Print This Form button has been
split into two separate buttons: "Print Form on A4 Page" and "Print Form
on A5 Page". The first button is the same as the original button,
producing the output on a single A4 page. The new button allows the user
to cut A4 pages in half (to A5 size) and put them into the laser printer
tray to print the form in reduced size, saving paper. This format is
perfect for using RISC to produce Late Notes. The A5 pages should be
inserted as if you were printing in Landscape format. Thanks to
Moorebank High School for this suggestion
- You can now Mail Merge directly from
the RISC Table View and all students listed in the table view will have
a user-selected customised form letter merged and printed with record of
the form letter automatically added to the Contact Action field
- New v9 splash screens introduced
- Updated HelpDesk and Virtual
Tour
- Fully compatible with Windows Vista
and Windows 7 and Office 2000 through 2010.
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RISC and
OASIS with ERN:
This information is
relevant to any NSW Public School currently running a version of RISC
for Windows, prior to v8.
With the implementation of the ERN (unique Student ID
Numbers) by the NSW Education Department in all NSW Public Schools
on March 17,
we felt it was important to alert you to an issue your school will now have
with your RISC software. If your school is currently licenced to run a
version of our Register of Individual Student Contact (RISC) software
for tracking welfare, discipline and merit which is older than v8, you
must read this. Your current version will not be compatible with ERN and
once ERN is released, as your existing RISC database will lose its
connectors to the enrolment database (as exported from OASIS). This
means your currently saved RISC data, as well as your archived RISC
data, may be rendered inaccessible.
Marillion Designs has released RISC v8 which introduces some remarkable
new features requested by schools as well as full ERN compatibility. And
even though RISC has had a major upgrade, v8 still works with your old
data, so now that ERN is implemented, your RISC system will continue to
function correctly.
NOTE: When you have upgraded to RISC v8 or later, it is
important to complete the RISC-ERN conversion process as detailed
here. Also note that if you had student photos in RISC, you will
need to re-import them using the RISC Photo Import Tool as found in the
Utilities menu in the RISC Admin program.
UPGRADE to RISC v9 TODAY and get the upgrade TOMORROW. Details
below.
RISC
and CASES21:
This information is
relevant to any Victorian Public School currently running any version of RISC
for Windows.
In late November 2008, the Victorian Education Department released an update
to CASES21 which affected the way data was exported. These changes
impacted on any installation of RISC earlier than v8.202AU. In order to
import data from the current release of CASES21, you must have RISC
8.202AU or later installed.
If your school is running v7 or earlier,
Marillion Designs has released RISC v8 which introduces some remarkable
new features requested by schools as well as full CASES21 compatibility. And
even though RISC has had a major upgrade, v8 still works with your old
data.
If your school has v8,
but it is earlier than v8.202AU, you can obtain a free upgrade by
opening the Help menu in RISC and choosing Find and
Download RISC Updates. Or better still...
UPGRADE to RISC v9 TODAY and get the upgrade TOMORROW. Details
below.
RISC and MAZE:
This information is
relevant to any Queensland Catholic School currently running any version of RISC
for Windows.
RISC 8.203AU and later now fully supports the MAZE software installed in
Queensland Catholic Schools.
If your school is running v7 or earlier,
Marillion Designs has released RISC v9 which introduces some remarkable
new features requested by schools as well as full MAZE compatibility. And
even though RISC has had a major upgrade, v9 still works with your old
data.
If your school has v8,
but it is earlier than v8.203AU, you can obtain a free upgrade by
opening the Help menu in RISC and choosing Find and
Download RISC Updates.
Full instructions for
exporting data from MAZE is available
here.
UPGRADE to RISC v9 TODAY and get the upgrade TOMORROW. Details
below.
RISC
v9 for Windows - 2010:
RISC v9 for Windows
is now available. Please take the Virtual
Tour for a full run-down of this remarkable new software.
The images below
shows what the RISC v9 system looks like:
The RISC Student Alerts Window is shown bottom-right with the new
"Motivation" field shown above
The new RISC Student Levels Calculator is a powerful, fully
user-definable aspect of RISC v9
RISC v9 for Windows was released
at the end of January 2010. The price for new users is $660.00 inc GST for a school-wide licence. Upgrade pricing for users of RISC
v8.xx will be $132.00 including GST for a downloadable version of RISC. Upgrade pricing from
earlier versions can be found on the How to Order
RISC page.
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RISC
Batch Photo Import Tool:
Almost as soon as RISC v7 was released,
schools, in particular high schools, started asking whether it was
possible to import existing student photo files into RISC instead of
using the RISC PhotoCapture! utility. Of course, at the time, the
answer was no. So, we went to work on developing such a tool and
realised it was not such a simple thing to do because between them,
schools will use various different sizes for their source photos and
they will also be named in all sorts of strange ways. So this tool
needed to be quite clever. Here's what we came up with:
This tool will not only
transfer your existing photos into RISC, but it will resize them, rotate
them (if required) and rename them automatically, without disturbing the
original copies. And it will do it all for your whole school in a
few minutes! For v7 users, to get your free download of this great new tool,
just e-mail us and we'll point you right at it. Users of v9 have and
updated version of
this tool built directly into the RISC Admin program.
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OASIS Thin
Client and RISC (NSW Schools):
OASIS Thin Client was rolled
out to all New South Wales Public Schools during 2007. RISC v6 and
later are compatible with OASIS Thin Client, however there is a
completely new set of instructions that must be followed in order to
successfully export your enrolment data from RISC for importing into
Windows. Thankfully, the days of using a floppy diskette for OASIS
are over!
Full instructions for
OASIS Thin Client are available in our Helpdesk section at this webpage
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New
Single Page RISC Flyer!
Are you a "paper" person? Do you find
it easier to read a piece of paper than a website? Would you like
a single-page flyer about RISC to hand to other school staff?
We've got just what you're looking for:
Click on either of the above links and
the flyer will open in a new window with Acrobat Reader. You can
then print as many copies as you like!
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RISC Data
Analysis Package - FREE Download:
One of our long-time users of RISC, Mr
Peter South from Thomas Reddall High School in Sydney, has
developed an excellent add-on resource for the RISC v8 software.
The RISC Data Analysis Package utilises an Excel Spreadsheet
Template for analysing export data from RISC to produce additional
reports and closer analysis of RISC data for schools. The Excel
spreadsheet uses coded macros to automatically import RISC data and
carry out further calculations, sort, display and print data and graphs.
It is generic and will work for data from any school, requiring the user
only to enter their school name and to click a single button for each
import (once they have exported their data from RISC). It can be
used to assist schools with the analysis of trends. Please note
that the package is only designed for schools running RISC v8.x for
Windows. Open the comprehensive User Guide linked below and have a
closer look at what the RISC Data Analysis Package can offer your
school. Our many thanks go to Peter South and Thomas Reddall High
School for making this useful tool available to RISC users.
The Register of
Individual Student Contact (RISC) is developed & distributed
by Marillion Designs.
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Information in this document is subject to change without notice.
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