1.5. Related Systems

Commercial systems that provide comparable functionality to the Grader Tool include

Each of the systems provides a wide variety of grade management functionality. The goal of the Grader Tool is not to provide all features found in these tools but rather to provide important core features. However, the Grader Tool provides modest functional improvements in the following areas, when compared to the tools above. These improvements are:

  1. Graphical depiction and modification of grades and grade schemes.

  2. Overall grade statistics, historical grade trends and prediction of grades by students.

  3. Easy to set up extra credit and different late policy schemes.

The goals of the Grader Tool are not met by any of the above commercial systems.

A detailed review of each related tool follows in these subsections:

Following these reviews, a summary of the features is provided in a feature comparison matrix.






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