Silhouette 4 Help / Video Tutorials
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Batch Importing:
Topic Comments and Grades Note: this tutorial was created with the custom RCS version of Silhouette4. Click here to download/view a pdf file with instructions for Batch Importing as well as a description of the reporting process when platooning is involved. |
Note: This tutorial was created using the Delta version of Silhouette 4 in November 2008. The Copy Template function is introduced in Version 4.6.2. |
| Converting eSIS Attendance PDF Files into Attendance Files for Silhouette CE and Silhouette 4 | Issues with eSIS Attendance Files used in SilhouetteCE and Silhouette 4 |
| Getting eSIS Attendance: A Summary in Four Screenshots | |
| New in Silhouette 4.8.x | |
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Right-Click Behaviours In the Comment Base comment edit window and the Student reports comment edit window, there have been changes to the right-click behaviours because of the new spell-checker. Right-clicking a word marked red by the spell checker to indicate a misspelling, will bring up the spellchecker popup menu:  While holding the SHIFT key, right-clicking text that has first been highlighted, will bring up the Cut/Copy/Paste menu:  These default behaviours may be switched via the Right-Click Rules setting in Utilities:  |
Moving from Student to Student: Previous to Version 4.8.0, once you were finished editting a report, you would click on the Save, Then Exit button to return to the Student Reports window where you might click on another student name. With Version 4.8.0, you may alternately move to another student report by: a. Selecting the student name from the dropdown on the Student report window,  b. Clicking on the Previous (<) or Next (>) button. c. Pressing the F4 (Previous student) or F5 (Next) function keys. In all cases, the current student report is automatically saved before the selected report is loaded. |
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MacOS Update Problem (November 2010) Problem: I'm trying to update Silhouette4 on my Mac. When it checks for automatic update every time I open Silhouette4, a texedit box appears ( reading'silCE updater'), but nothing happens. If then I open 'check for online updates', Silhouette4 will tell an update has been downloaded, but that it can't find the 'updater program'. Solution: The problem is that your Mac isn't properly unpacking the .zip install file. We've seen this on a few other Macs and it is easily corrected. 1) Locate the file called Sil4Updater.zip. It should be in your Silhouette4 folder. If you can't find it, then any .zip file will do. 2) Click once on the .zip file's icon then press Command-I (or use the file menu) to view the file info. 3) Look for the line in the info window that says Open with ... You may have to click the little triangle beside the words to open that part of the info. Check to see what is listed in this area. It will probably say "TextEdit" or something similar, but it should say BOMArchiveHelper or perhaps Archive Helper. To change this item: 1) Click on the drop down menu that says Textedit (or whatever). If you see BOMrchiveHelper or Archive Helper (or even Stuffit Expander) in the list, then select it. If not, select "Other" and follow steps 2 & 3 below. 2) Use the file requester to navigate to: Macintosh HD --> System --> Library --> CoreServices 3) Select BOMArchiveHelper 4) Click on the Change All button in the file info window to set this for future downloads. That's it. Now you should go ahead and double click the Sil4Updater.zip file and it will unpack properly. After that, you won't get the error message in Silhouette. |
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Getting a Master.dat file export from eSIS (pdf) |
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| Silhouette 4/CE: Including Attendance on VSB Reports (pdf file - for TurboSchool files only) | |
| Classlists and Class Folder with Templates - some issues explained | |
| The Silhouette 4 Users Guide (pdf version - September 2007). Note: this document contains the same information as the Silhouette4 Help that appears when you press the F1 key while in Silhouette4. | |
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Importing Vancouver School Board PSR data from Silhouette 4/CE into TurboSchool in June (pdf file)
BCeSIS is not capable of importing PSR information from Silhouette. At VSB schools that are fully on BCeSIS, PSR data will have to be entered manually. |
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