1.5.2. Easy Grade Pro 3.6

Easy Grade Pro is a very powerful grading tool created by Orbis Software. Teachers control their grade sheets through an easy-to-use, fully customizable interface. Teachers have several ways to post information to parents and students, including HTML and email reports. This program is top-of-the-line and has many more features than any other product reviewed here.

Good Features:

• can contain hundreds of classes, which can be switched between with a single mouse press
• each class has five charts, selected by tabs: score, attendance, seating, students, and assignments
• scores
• grade scales can have letters, words, numbers and can be unique to each student, or each score category
• score categories can be weighted or unweighted, can include numbers, grades, symbols and words, and can be entered by typing, clicking and filling down and can be entered directly from unsorted student papers using a high-speed search tool
• Scores can be dropped and curved, and automatically calculated grades can be overriden and curved
• scores can be imported from most tab or space separated text files, spreadsheet and database programs.
• each class can contain up to a thousand students
• students can be imported from other software, including administration software
• student records can include numberous user-defined fields
• Summaries and reports
• extensive textual notes can be entered into the summaries
• offers nineteen comprehensive, customizable reports
• student reports can include data from multiple classes, subjects, and teachers
• informative graphs and charts that redraw as you enter data are readily available, in addition to the full summaries window.
• all reports and summaries can be printed in English, Spanish, and other languages
• Internet Features: Four methods are available for posting student reports
• HTML reports: teachers, schools, and districts can post student reports with password security using their own web server.
• Email Reports: Create a folder of student reports, that can be attached to email messages, sent and viewed by parents and students using their web browser.
• Edine: provides a complete internet platform that serves as your school's website. Uploads of grades, announcements, calendars, news, and more are easy and secure.
• Basmati: open-source software (SourceForge) that can run on the district's Linux, Unix, WinNT/2000 or Max OSX server. Generate grade file and upload it to the server using a web browser.
• all tools are fully customizable, and can be moved or removed to simplify the layout
• allows the user to create or choose from existing data filters
• change the order of student and assignments by dragging rows and columns
• add additional columns to show points, ID numbers, rank and more
• copy tools allow data movement between classes with ease.
• dictionary is available to spell-check all text.
• full editing and undo are nearly always available.
• customize color, font, font size, column width and more.
• TA mode
• password protection
• in-context help.
• application usable on Win95-XP, Mac OS 7.0 or higher and Mac OSx 10.1 or higher, seamlessly
• interfaces with EGP Clipboard, a companion product that runs on Palm OS handheld devices.

Bad Features:

• up to ten master attendance categories can be used with up to fifteen subcategories; daily attendance can be exported over a network to school administration software. While this tool is easy-to-use, it is not necessary for our purposes here.
• includes a very detailed seating chart system, allowing seats, furniture, and other shapes to be added to match the layout of the classroom. Like the attendance mode, this would be mostly a bonus feature

Missing Features:

• No graphical grade adjustment tool to set grade threshold values
• Can’t split grading cells within a category for multiple part assignments
• Student access to their own reports and class statistics without needing teachers to post a report
• time-stamp pop-up for any grade changes
• explorer-style class browsing (Easy Grade uses tabs)
• automatic due-date enforcer
• graphical assignment handin system
• No student score prediction

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