Capturing and Distributing Teacher settings

Once a teacher has been enabled in Solar Fire, all the teacher's settings can be captured and stored in a ZIP file.

Settings in the ZIP file

•Solar Fire system settings (internal settings, birthdays, rulers, weightings etc)

•Wheels and Dials

•Tasks

•Almutens and Dignities

•Pages

•Points and Colors

•Selected Charts

•Aspects

>> To capture Teacher settings

1.In the Utilities menu click on Teacher - Create Settings. A dialog box will appear asking if you wish to continue, click Yes to continue.

2.A dialog box will ask for a name for the file. Enter a name or choose a previously used name from the drop down list. Click on the OK button.

3.Another dialog box will appear where you can select any chart files you would like included in the ZIP file by clicking in the checkbox next to each chart file. (To unselect a chart file just click in the checkbox again so that it is blank).

4.When you have finished selecting chart files click on the OK button. Solar Fire will then save the settings in a ZIP file.

Finally a message will appear telling you where the ZIP file has been stored.

>> Distributing Teacher settings to students

In an email you can add the ZIP file as an attachment from the folder it was stored in, and send it to your students to use, or you can email the file to Esoteric Technologies who will put it on their website for downloading by students.