1. Introduction
This document lays out requirements for a gradebook management, or
‘grader’ tool. Targeted specifically toward a collegiate audience, the
grader provides university professors, administrators, and students with several useful features
including:
- Tracking course grades and statistics via a collapsible, spreadsheet-like interface.
- Predicting possible grade outcomes, and calculating necessary grades to achieve a desired outcome.
- Setting up late-day or grace-day policies.
- Managing grading curves for courses with the aid of graphical tools.
- Interfacing with a central host repository where instructors post grades and students may view them.
- Easily posting grades to the registrar's office at the end of a term.
- Storing course results and viewing historical grade trends from past courses.
- Handling electronic submission of graded work.
- Making up for other miscellaneous shortcomings with the Polylearn system.
The grader tool, along with this and the following documents, also
serves as an exercise in sensible software engineering process and design.
Further introductory material is presented in these subsections:
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