iPlanHomework Demo by 8th grader

Presented by Abby, 8th grade Product Manager

iPlanHomework: Requirements from our 13 year old Product Manager for planning homework

Here are my original requirements for our homework planning app:

BEFORE:

iPlanHomework
What iPlanHomework should include:
1. The Student needs to be able to keep track of his/her homework....

• If a Report, Essay, Written page, etc. they need...
• Start date & Due date
• Amount of work done & Amount needed
• How long the written page needs to be
• Important features (ex. Table of Contents, Bibliography, etc.)
• Grade it will receive and how much time they should put into it.

• If it is a multiple/question page assignment they’ll need...
• To be able to break up the assignment if allowed by the teacher
• Keep track of how much of it is done
• How many/much of it is “hands on” (including: written work, experiment, activity, etc)
• Which page/chapter to which page/chapter
• If they do not understand or are confused, what sources will help them
• Student sometimes will have to report to teacher what is finished and what is not
• So a report setting will be convenient

• If it a Reading/Book list they’ll need...
• Title & Author
• Genre (ex. mystery, adventure, etc.)
• Priority of this book
• If it has been read or unread
• A book review area/notepad
• What points/questions they need to cover
• Grade it will receive and how much time should be put into it
• A place to put his/her book review/report either within the app or elsewhere
• Where the student has documented their report/review

2. They will need a schedule...

• To keep track of their homework, classes, electives, etc.
• What is done what is not done.... priority
• Due dates
• Daily subjects
• Tests/quizzes

• Field trips, vacations, school outings, school events,
• School break, holidays,
• Non-school outings, family trips/time/vacation

iPlanHomework: Homework Planner Requirements (8th grader)

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Abby

8th Grader

13 years old

AFTER:
iPlanHomework Overview

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Happy Birthday iHomeEducator®, Inc.

Happy Birthday iHomeEducator®, Inc. !

What a year it has been for us!!

Looking back we have learned so much and built so many relationships with partners, customers, prospects, teachers, and families.  Thank you all for being a part of iHomeEducator, Inc. and our journey.  We cannot believe that it has been a year when we decided to take on the challenge set before us.  Year 2010 ended with IEAR.org recognizing our efforts with iLiveMath and iLiveGrammar.  This was very special and we thank everyone for this recognition.  We set our sights on partners, productivity, and more educational apps as our vision and goal for 2011 and beyond.

Partners:

Thank you to all the work put in by our partners.  We have been honored to work with you all.

• Apologia Educational Ministries, Inc.,
• Gravitas Publications,
• Knowledge Quest, Inc.,
• Singapore MathPlus Consultancy,
• Zeezok Publishing, LLC,
• and others are in the works.

Productivity Apps: 

Solving problems for parents and teachers by helping them become more efficient and productive.

• iPlanLessons was our first app in this new category which has gained a tremendous following on Pinterest... Who would have thought this lesson planner would be helping so many homeschool parents and educators.
• Then we followed this with iPlanShopping and iPlanMeals for planning and budgeting any type of purchase, as well as plan meals, recipes, and ingredients.

 

and we plan more productivity apps... stay tuned...

More Educational Apps:

• iLive Series - continued with Vocabulary and Spelling
• iLiveMath and iLiveGrammar - were updated to iOS 5 and we recently fixed video problems caused by changes with Youtube.

Technical Enrichment & Growth:

• WWDC
• iOSDevCamp - winning best International App

Thank you!

Special thanks to all our supporters and reviewers - there are so many and we have links everywhere on our website to your reviews, pins, videos, etc... we could not have done it without your help.  We hope this next year we can continue to serve our growing community.

Sincere thanks,

Andy, Arlene, and Abby Lee

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iLive Problem with Videos

All,

Just wanted to let all our users know that there are some issues with the videos hanging the app on an iPhone or iPod Touch.  It seems to work fine on the iPad.  We are in the process of fixing this.  It had to do with iOS 5 and also the new way Youtube embeds videos using iframe.  These changes complicated the debugging process but now we should have a fix.

It will just take us a little time to get through all the iLive apps and check each video to clean up this problem.

Thanks for your patience.
Andy

Troubleshooting and Support: Multitasking

Apple has a great support page for users that have problems with their apps.  Symptoms are crashing, black/white screens, etc... Sometimes apps will run into memory limits on the devices if other apps are still occupying resources.

Apple Support Links:

iOS: Understanding multitasking

iOS: Troubleshooting applications purchased from the App Store

Users are welcome to report problems directly to us at support@ihomeeducator.com

or

via iTunes:

How to report an issue with Your iTunes Store purchase

iPlanShopping Tutorial

iPlanLessons Tutorial 2