[!NOTE]
Version 0.13.2, ready to use at a school. Free for schools. Registration required from 0.13.0. Every release goes to every school straight
away, and the app updates itself. Version 1.0 follows after the hand checks in
the release checklist: real label sheets on a laser printer,
letters on paper, a Windows install at a school, and code signing once it is bought.
Download
Go to the download page. It picks
the right file for your computer and walks you through installing it.
[!IMPORTANT]
The first time you open it, your computer shows a security warning. Locker Manager is not
yet registered with Microsoft or Apple, so Windows says "Windows protected your PC" and a Mac
says it cannot check the app. This is expected and happens only once. The
download page shows exactly what to
click on each computer. In short:
- Windows: click More info, then Run anyway. No administrator password needed.
- Mac: drag the app into Applications, try to open it once and click Done, then
go to System Settings, Privacy & Security, and click Open Anyway.
On a school-managed computer, ask your IT team first: many schools block new apps.
Once installed, Locker Manager updates itself on Windows and on a Mac (on a Mac, keep it in the
Applications folder). Every version, with its release notes, is on the
releases page.
See it
All pictures show the demo school that comes with the app. Every student in it is made up.
What it does
- Imports students from your student system's export: Compass, Sentral, SIMON, Xuno,
Synergetic, TASS, CASES21 or any spreadsheet. Fixes capitals in surnames and asks a person
to check the tricky ones. Students can also be added by hand.
- Allocates lockers by your rules (year level to area, group order, surname, groups
placed last, accessible lockers first), with a draft you check before anything changes.
Each area can have its own order.
- Issues lock codes that follow the lock makers' advice. By default a lock is never
given a code it had in the last three years, and no two locks in the school share a code;
a school can change both rules. Codes are hidden until asked for, and the app records who
showed, printed or exported each code. An optional PIN guards codes.
- Prints labels at exact millimetre positions on Avery sheets, with your own
measurements, a calibration page and printer nudges. Your logo gets a one-colour version
for black-and-white printers, and words that do not fit are listed before you print.
- Prints letters: one page per student, with only the sections that suit their lock,
in more than one language if you need (Arabic, Persian and Dari read right to left), with a
progress bar and Cancel. Pale school colours are adjusted so the words stay readable.
- Reports and exports: group lists, a confidential master list, lockers by bank, reset
checklists, sign-off sheets, a key register and changes since a date, as PDF, Excel or CSV.
- Through the year: new students, leavers, moves and swaps (Move or swap on Home), a
year level or group change with an offer to move the student, new codes, locks to reset
with tick boxes and Mark as reset, and a full history of who changed what. A message
confirms each change for 8 seconds with Undo.
- Start next year: a guided rollover, with students resetting their own locks on their
last day.
- Small schools: a school that only records who has which locker can do just that. Quick
start makes an area, a bank and its lockers in one step; keyed locks or no locks mean no
codes; labels and letters can be marked "We don't use this" so the app stops suggesting
them.
- Help built in: a short tour the first time, a getting-started list on Home, the guide
inside the app, a demo school with made-up students (its printouts say DEMO), and a practice
copy for training.
Not built yet, although the specification mentions them: a passphrase that
encrypts codes (an optional PIN is built instead), opt-in crash reports, release notes shown
inside the app (they are on the release page), and screens in languages other than English
(letters can already be in more than one language).
Your data (for privacy assessments)
Locker Manager has no server and no accounts. Everything it stores is in files on your
school's computers and in the folder your school chooses. In Victoria, the Department of
Education's privacy and records requirements for schools apply to these files, as to any
other student records the school keeps.
The data file
One file ending in .lockers (a SQLite database), in the folder your school chooses, such
as a shared drive, OneDrive or SharePoint. It holds:
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