I spent the entirety of today installing a new version of Report Card Maker on the computers of the teachers at Rancho. For the windows users it was ease itself to do it, all you had to do was go to control panel, add/remove programs and remove the old version. Visit their website, download and press run. After that all you had to do was identify your state and district, then click "get" to retrieve a list of this year's students for the teacher. That was all there was to it.
The Macs, while not comlpicated were far more tedious and time consuming. You had to move all taces of the old application to the trash and rename the RCM (Report Card Maker) folder. Then you went and downloaded the mac version at which point you had to unzip the file, which took time, then install it in the ridiculous manner of dragging one oversized file into another. After that you had to create shortcuts on the teacher's desktop for him or her to find, all in all, the process was several times longer than the one for windows.
When finished I came back to the lab where we had one class before departing.
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