Think Wave Online Gradebook is an online web application used to manage multiple class rosters and their student’s grades. It tries to provide the most flexibility of features at the expense of an easy human interface.

Overall, The Think Wave Online Gradebook can suit a wide arrange of jobs, but navigating the features of it can be complicating.

Good Features:

• A quickfill option to fill in all non-blank assignment grades to a grade
• Assignment due dates are assigned using an HTML calendar
• Can add, delete, or edit assignment category names
• Can assign weights to each assignment category
• Display of grades can be switched between letter grade, raw percentage, or points
• Extra Credit is tallied
• Generate per student or per class reports in PDF format
• Can export class or student information in CSV file
• Can define cut-off for A’s, A-’s, B+’s, etc.
• Electronic student submission is possible
• Integrated attendance keeper

Bad Features:

• Features like important importing class rosters are not available up-front. It is hidden behind advanced settings
• Poor student grouping support
• Initial setup is tedious and uninteresting
• Changing between classes is under a drop down menu, not very convenient.
• View settings are under setup tab, not under gradebook tab
• Limited file hosting, limited to 26 megabytes for free version
• Editing grades is not very secure. Accidental edits are possible

Missing Features:

• Missing visual representation of grade breakdown of class
• No hierarchy of student groups, unable to expand or collapse student groups
• Unable to expand or collapse assignment types
• No detailed analysis of curve breakdown
• No support for late policy
• Unable to sort gradebook
• No undo feature