There is no provision for editing teacher data in Headmaster Gold©. You will enter teachers in your student demographic database with a prefix such as 80 then capture the teachers from this database. This allows for much greater flexibility and control over teacher data. Anything that you can do with a student record (schedule, mailing labels, transcript) you may also do with a teacher record. In this database, the field Counselor becomes the teacher's sort abbreviation, and Homeroom becomes the teacher's prefix (Mr., Mrs., Ms).

In the User Window tab you will need to redefine any user-defined fields from the old database. Double clock the desired edit window, and complete the Name, Style, (date, phone, etc.), and Size (number of characters) to exactly match your DOS setup.

In the Dates tab you must redefine your immunization setup to exactly match your DOS setup. Double click on each date field and enter the Name (MMR, Polio) of the selected date. You may also arrange the screen to suit your eye or data entry needs. Since these dates may now be placed individually on a custom report, there is no longer a need for different stickers.

All reports are now stored in a Rich Text Format (rtf). The DOS reports are not compatible with the Gold version, although they can still be generated with the DOS version.

This is because Headmaster Gold© closed without writing to the file that tracks users and application usage when your computer crashed.The only way to recover from something like this is to...

1. Be sure everyone is out of Headmaster Gold©.
2. Browse to the drive where your Headmaster Gold© data resides. (i.e. “app path\hdmstr\data” or “app path\data”)
3. Find a file called winbusy.dta in the \data directory and delete it.
4. You may now log in to Headmaster Gold©.

That is because the custom report generator in Headmaster Gold© fills the bookmarks with information as the report is being sent to the printer.After previewing the report in Headmaster Gold©, simply go to the ‘print report’ tab in the custom report generator.Take the check mark out of the box beside ‘test mode’ and run your report again.Your report should now contain the information in the place of the bookmarks, as you expected.

Headmaster for DOS

1. Go to ‘Student Records’ then ‘Edit Schedules / Report Cards.’
2. While at the top of the screen in Headmaster, you will see ‘Version xx’where xx is the Headmaster DOS version.(i.e. 10, 11, or 15)

Headmaster Gold©

1. Go to ‘Help’ on the main menu
2. Select‘About’
3. In the screen that comes up for a few seconds, you will see ‘Release Version x.xx’ where x.xx is the version number you are using.(i.e. 2.01, 2.05 etc)

1. Visit our download page
2. click on Gold____.exe
3. Choose Save to disk
4. Save in: ___:\hdmstr\setup
5. Open My Computer
6. Browse to ___:\hdmstr\setup
7. Double click on Gold____.exe
8. In the Self-Extractor, Browse… to ___:\hdmstr\setup
9. Click Unzip, click OK to 14 files, and Close
10. Double click on Setup.exe in ___:\hdmstr\setup
11. Complete a COMPACT installation into folder ___:\hdmstr

Use this utility with CAUTION:

1. Be sure that nobody is using that student’s record.If you use this utility when someone is in the student’s record, you risk corrupting your data!!
2. Close all of your Headmaster Gold© applications so that the only thing left open is the toolbar
3. Click on the magnifying glass on the toolbar, and open the students record that you are having problems with
4. After the student’s ID and name appear in the active student boxes, hover your mouse to the immediate right of the student name box.As you do, a faint outline of a box will appear.
5. Click on the box.Your students record is now free to edit!

7. To make a teacher show up in your edit master schedule screen:

1. If you haven’t given the teacher any classes yet, take the check mark out of the box by “cons.”
2. Be sure your teacher is entered into your student database with the correct ID prefix.

To get all of your schedule and class lists to show up:

Set your master schedule

1. Be sure to click the drop down arrow by the set button, and choose your “Current Master.”
2. Choose the semesters that are appropriate for when your current time period. (Example: 1^st and 3^rd semesters for 1^st semesters)
3. Choose the rotations you are using. If you aren’t using any special rotations, then choose the rotation(s) available. (Probably 00)
4. Be sure that the teacher and course range include all of the teachers and courses you are using. To be sure that all are included start with 0000 and end with 9999
5. Press OK

Rebuild your class lists

1. In the student schedules application within the schedule tab, click on the drop down arrow by the build class lists button in the upper right hand corner of the schedule application.
2. Choose current class lists
3. When your class lists are built, the hourglass will go away from your mouse cursor!

1. Browse to the drive where the teachers’ Grademaster folders reside
2. Create and Name a folder the same as the teacher’s ID number from Headmaster(ie 0101, 1101 etc)
3. Send the teacher’s class lists to their new folder from Headmaster.
4. Install Grademaster on the teacher’s computer. Install it to the same path that contains the teachers’ folders!
5. Call us for the registration code for the day!

1. Close all of your applications in Headmaster Gold©
2. Go to File/System Defaults and set the Attendance Flag Date to the first day of the school year
3. Restart Headmaster Gold©