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Ann & Keith JohnsonAbout the author

Keith Johnson : author of Physics for You

Keith Johnson was born in Darlington, went to Manchester University to study Physics, and then became a Physics teacher, then Deputy Head & Timetabler, acting Headteacher, and Science Inspector for the City of Manchester.

You can read more about Keith on Wikipedia

 

Ann and Keith Johnson.

Keith Johnson enjoying a break away from work on his motorbike

He has written or co-written over 100 books, and is involved in the writing of timetabling software which sells in over 90 countries.

Total sales of ‘GCSE Physics for You’ (UK editions) are currently well over one million copies, and total sales of ‘Spotlight Science’ also exceed one million copies.
His books have also been translated into Chinese, Dutch, Slovenian, Thai, Latvian, Lithuanian, Welsh, Norwegian, Polish.

He is married to Ann, who helps with the design of the books and draws cartoons for them.
They have two children and three grandchildren

Hobbies include trail-riding on his Yamaha XT600 motorbike, filming (he won an award for one of the ‘Ten Best’ amateur films of the year), swimming, learning French, and reading.

For a full listing of all 120 of Keith’s books, click here.
To see foreign translations, click here.

To read Letters saying what Students think of Keith’s books, click here.

To read Reviews of Keith Johnson’s books, click here.

To read how Keith wrote Physics for You, click here. Keith Johnson ; a million copies

To see what Teachers think about his Timetabling software (written with his son Chris), click here and here.

To read about his work on Readability, click here.

Or you can read about Keith on Wikipedia.

 

 

Keith at an event to Celebrate a million sales – More Details 

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Basic Data

BasicData-thumbnail

This shows the Main Menu, and Step 1 : the Basic Data screen, with five big buttons.

Each button leads you to an entry screen.

To enter your data you would start at the left, and work your way across to the right.

Look how straightforward it is, compared to other programs !

And the fully-illustrated printed Manual explains each step, in detail.

 

Subjects Screen

subjects screen

This is the screen for saying which Subjects you will want to timetable.

You can return here at any time to edit / alter your data.

You can give each Subject a colour – this helps during scheduling, and for the printouts.

Visual Builder Screen

visual builder screen

This is the main screen on which you do the actual scheduling.
You can sit at this Visual Builder Screen and drag-and-drop to ‘drive’ through the timetable.
 
At first sight it looks very complicated.  To see what each part will do for you, please click on: www.timetabler.com/kb/UsingtheVisualBuilderScreen.pdf

Class Timetable Screen

 

visual builder screen

 

This shows you the Class Timetables, so you can see the pattern while you are scheduling lessons.
  
There are similar screens for the Staff Timetables and for the Room Timetables.
 
If you use dual monitors you can see these more easily and spread them out over the bigger area.

All the buttons, and the symbols, are explained when you click on the button.

The Printout Menu

This shows you some of the possibilities for the Printouts.
 
Within each of these, there are millions of ways of fine-tuning the exact design of the Printouts.

They can be printed on paper, or produced as web-pages, at the click of a button.

A professional result.
 

The 'master' Class Printout Screen

Class timetable printout screen

This shows you the Preview Screen , so you can design the ‘master’ Class printout, before printing it.
 
There are similar screens for the Staff Timetables and for the Room Timetables.
 
You have total control over the design, the font and the colour, the column widths, the labels, etc, etc.
 
All the buttons and the controls, are explained when you click on the button.