What do I get with my single user Middle School or High School purchase?
You'll receive a copy of the Teachers\' Guide, Starry Nightt Education software, the SkyTheater DVD, and a Quickstart Guide. What does the Teachers’ Guide Contain?
The Teachers’ Guide is 350 pages for Middle School and 415 pages for High School. They contain detailed lesson plans to help teachers easily and thoroughly cover topics from their Earth Science, Space Science, Physics, and Astronomy courses. Each lesson plan is correlated to grade level and national and state/province standards so that teachers can choose the ones most appropriate to their specific class and lesson. Within each of the lessons, there are student worksheets, hands-on activities, software integration into Starry Night™, and short DVD clips.
Can I buy the Teachers’ Guide separately?
No. The Education Line products were built specifically to run with custom configured software. Using the Teacher’s Guide with other versions of Starry Night™ or without the software at all would not adequately explain the lesson plans. What is the difference between Starry Night™ Education software and other Starry Night™ software?
Since the Starry Night™ Education software was designed specifically for a classroom setting, student exercises are integrated into the software. Students will have tasks to follow and questions through the SkyGuide interface. This feature is not available in our consumer level product lines. Can I buy multiple seat licenses?
Yes. Please contact our sales representative.
Starry Night preferences, including registration, are saved for each unique user account. For a managed environment such as a computer lab, this means that each non-admin user can have their own settings without affecting the settings of another user that logs onto the same computer. However this applies to the registration number as well, meaning that each non-admin user on a computer will be asked to register Starry Night.
There are two possible solutions.
Solution A (Recommended - Version 6 only)
Make sure that your Starry Night program is up to date by visiting our updates page. Then find the Resources folder in your Starry Night installation. The location is as follows:
On Windows: Browse to C:/Program Files/Starry Night/Sky Data/Resources/
On the Mac: Browse to Applications/Starry Night -> right-click on the program icon and choose Show Package Contents -> Contents/Resources/Sky Data/Resources/
Solution B (version 5)
Register the software on an admin-account and then copy and paste the Registration File onto each non-admin users account.
On the Mac, the registration file can be found in <admin user> - Library - Preferences - Space.com - <product i.e. "Pro"> - Registration File. Copy the Registration File and place it on the users account under the same path.
On Windows, the Registration File can be found in My Computer - Local Disk- Documents and Settings - <user account> - Local Settings - Application Data* - Imaginova Canada - Prefs - <product i.e. "Pro">.
*Note that the Application Data folder may be hidden from view. To see hidden folders select Folder options from the Tools menu in the File Explorer window. Then in the window that opens, click on the "View" tab and select "Show hidden files and folders" in the Hidden files and folders section of the Advanced settings box.
This issue can occur when installing any Starry Night application (most frequently Middle School or High School) on a computer with a non-administrative account.
To correct this issue, download and run the following application. Please note that you need administrator privileges to perform this update.
Fix for Mac OS X:
Fix for Starry Night permissions issue
Fix for Windows XP:
Combined fix for Starry Night Middle School and High School (FixStarryNightSkyGuide.exe)
Yes. However, performance will depend on the speed of the network and the number of simultaneous users running the software.
This solution involves installing Starry Night on a server and then providing network shortcuts on each students computer that point to the program on the server.
We suggest you move the Prefs folder so that individual students don't have to register the product. See Solution A for instructions.