1.4. Impacts
The
Grader program will have many impacts. One positive impact for the
Grader will be the convenience of grade management for teachers and
administrators. The teachers will be able to easily assign grades to
students or assign a teacher-assistant to do the grades for them. With
high security the teacher can manage his/her class from the comfort of
his/her home. This will reduce paper usage in collecting grades by
hand. This will also increase productivity with the ability to
instantly make changes to the grades and to check how well the class,
as a whole, is doing.
Another
impact of the program will be easy access for students to view their
grades and the ability to predict what they will get in the class. This
will give teachers more available time to devote to office hours and
class since the students will not need to ask "What grade am I getting
in this class?"
There
are many negative impacts that may result with the use of the new
program. One is that grades will be stored electronically through the
teacher's computers. This can create a security risk if the program is
hacked. Also there is a risk of students being able to hack in to
poorly-protected server data. In addition a student could hack the
files being sent to his/her client and view all the students’
names/IDs. The electronic turn-in dates can also be altered allowing
students to turn in assignments late without the proper penalization.
Furthermore a negative impact would be in the case of a power failure
or the crashing of computer systems students will no longer be able to
access the grades. Finally if a student used a packet-sniffer he/she
can intercept the grades as they are being transferred among local and
server machines.
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