| April 29, 2026 |
| Tracks no longer held for review |
| It's 2026 and we are slowly able to migrate to new servers and update our code. You can now create tracks and we will no longer hold for moderation so you can use your tracks immediately. Hopefully we'll have more fixes for you soon |
| February 25, 2005 |
| Change of Policy |
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<strong>We have a new change in our policies. We now allow users to link to the following search engines: Google, Ask Jeeves for Kids, and Yahooligans. TrackStar has deemed these sites as the search engines that result in the most appropriate findings for adults and children.</strong> |
| July 30, 2004 |
| Important Notice |
| <font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><font color="#FF0000">During
these times of email viruses, we would like to tell all our users that
TrackStar, 4Teachers, and HPR*TEC do not send emails with attachments.
Do not open any attachments claiming </font></b></font><font color="#FF0000" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>to
be from us or anyone you do not know. Keep your computer clean and virus-free!</b></font><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><br>
</b></font> |
| July 30, 2004 |
| New TrackStar Copyright Infringement Policy |
| TrackStar has a new copyright infringement policy. Tracks with 2 to 5 links can have no more than 2 links to the same site. Tracks with 6-15 links can have no more than 3 links to the same source. Please read our <a href="/trackstar/help/copyrights.jsp">copyright infringement page</a> for further clarification. |
| July 30, 2004 |
| New Explanation of Extended Learning Questions |
| Not quite sure what qualifies as extended learning? We have noticed some confusion when it comes to selecting between the Worksheet format and the Extended Learning format of a Track, so check out our new guidelines to alleviate your uncertainties. The <a href="http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/help/extend.jsp">Extended Learning Questions</a> page, lists four categories of extended learning questions, and gives example questions by which to model your Track's annotations. |
| July 30, 2004 |
| Tech-Along article on fixing broken links |
| Have you been notified that your Track has several broken links? Learn how to quickly fix these links in the Tech-Along article <a href="http://www.4teachers.org/techalong/links">
Troubleshooting broken links</a>. |
| July 30, 2004 |
| Including HTML in TrackStar annotations |
| Our first advice to all TrackStar users is to save a draft of your Track's links & annotations in a word processed document. It's easy to copy-paste these items into TrackMaker.
If you include HTML in your annotations though, be sure to use a <i>sans serif</i> font like Arial, Helvetica, or Verdana. If you use <i>serif</i> (curly) fonts like Times New Roman in HTML, you may run into trouble. Browsers sometimes misinterpret certain curly characters, like quotation marks, apostrophes, and commas, especially when used in tags. |
| July 30, 2004 |
| Printable Handout Ready for Workshops |
| Are you leading a workshop on how to use TrackStar? Go to our Professional Development Center and use our new <a href="http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/help/profdev/guide01.jsp">printable handout</a> with your participants. |
