Issue:

 

Upgrading to Accelerated Math 2.x important installation notes.

 

Resolution:

 

1)     When you update your Accelerated Math 1.x program to Accelerated Math 2.x, the data must be converted to be compatible with the new version. Since every question posed to every student for the entire school year needs to be converted, this conversion could take many hours. Plan on Accelerated Math being down for at least one entire day to accomplish the conversion.

 

Note: If you can’t afford to have Accelerated Math down for at least one day, you may want to wait until the end of your school year to upgrade.  Waiting until the end of the school year to upgrade will allow you to unenroll students before the conversion, which will remove all questions posed to your students during the school year, drastically reducing the time it will take to convert. It may also give teachers extra time to familiarize themselves with the new program, either at the end of this school year or the beginning of the next.  For more information on setting up for the new school year and converting at the same time, please refer to KB article #2157546.

 

2)     Score all printed assignments and tests through the Accelerated Math Management program to prevent printing of additional practices, before backing up your database and upgrading your software.  Students will no longer be able to score any outstanding worksheets printed from previous releases of the software once you upgrade.

 

3)     Run Accelerated Math 1.x Data Doctor before installing Accelerated Math 2.x to ensure that you will not be converting any unnecessary data.

 

4)     When upgrading an Accelerated Math 1.x database to 2.x, you will want to reserve at least one full day for the conversion process to complete.  Start the actual conversion before leaving school on the previous day.  The Accelerated Math program will need to convert each question that was found on each assignment a student has scored.  The total conversion time for each school could vary greatly, depending on the number of students and how heavily the program has been used.  Make sure you allow plenty of time for the conversion to take place when students and teachers will not need to be accessing the program.  If you have some type of automatic or Tape backup that runs overnight, you will want to disable it for the night you are converting because it could interrupt the conversion process.

 

5)     Backup your database by making a copy of your data folder before installing the new release.  You will be asked if you want to upgrade your database when you start the new program.  Once you do so you can no longer go back or access your data with previous releases of the software.

 

6)     When you install Accelerated Math 2.x over your existing version, you will not have to register the software again.  Disregard the registration instructions in the Installation Guide.

 

7)     All of the Accelerated Math content libraries have been updated along with release 2.x.  Some math objectives have been added, renamed, split into two skills, deleted or replaced, or re-sequenced.  Accelerated Math 1.x library tags are no longer accessible once you upgrade your program; you will not show any tags until you start using your 2.x libraries.  You may want to consider waiting until the end of a marking period or school year, and familiarizing yourself with the new content, before installing your new libraries and adding their objectives to your assignment (record) books.  When you are ready to update your libraries, please refer to KB article #2122028.

 

8)     You can upgrade your Accelerated Math program without updating your content libraries, however, there may be a noticeable change in your students’ scores.  Accelerated Math 2.x will include all data for practice and test percentages, where previous releases of Accelerated Math did not include scores previous to the Intervene mastery state or Diagnose mastery state.

 

9)     When specifying the data location that you are upgrading with a universal path, you will receive a disk space error. If you receive the message that you will need to free up disk space before you can upgrade, and you have plenty of hard drive space, you will need to specify your data location with a mapped drive. Once the data has been upgraded, then a universal path is fine.