1.5.3 Engrade

Engrade operates entirely online and comes as a free tool for teachers, students and possibly parents to interactively manage grades for a class. Engrade functions as a standalone program and can only export grades or attendance to Microsoft Excel. However, Engrade boasts cross-platform functionality, since one may manage their class grades using any internet browser. This flexibility, however, relies on access to the internet, which students may not always have. Engrade also features a calendar for its users to view when assignments are due as well as a description for the assignments written by the teacher. It also boasts a simple point-and-click attendance feature for every day of class. Finally, Engrade users may generate reports for missing assignments or overall grades in a printable format.

Overall, Engrade has a very easy learning curve and a simple interface, providing a quick, effective grade management resource for teachers and students alike. Unfortunately, Engrade's lack of necessary features requires much building upon to reach an effective grader program.

Good Features:

• Very simple interface, enabling easy entry and easily comprehended results
• Customizable grades and minimum percentages, option to add +/- grades
• Extended sorting options for students, assignments
• Extended rounding options for student overall percentages
• Calculations for assignments and grades occur in real-time as scores get entered
• Spelling checker for each name and description entered into the gradebook
• Grades may be adjusted from the gradebook homepage
• Optional calendar and attendance features for better student-professor interaction
• Option to export grades and attendance to Microsoft Excel
  
  

Bad Features:

• Exportating limited to Microsoft Excel, no importing enabled
• Only a single statistic, class average, available; no median or standard deviation
• Attendance present, but cannot be graded
  

Missing Features:

• Grade and assignment color scheme
• Curve options
• Undo and auto-save features
• Grade prediction
• Graphics (charts, graphs, histograms)
• TA login
• Search function