1.5.3 SnapGrades
SnapGrades is a grading utility designed for use by both students and teachers/professors. It provides teachers with the ability to manage student grades by maintaining a list of students for a particular class, and a seperate list of assignments with which grades can be given for each student. SnapGrades supports many seperate class rosters and allows for a wide variety of grading styles. The grading management is completely browser based, supporting all platforms and all significant browsers. SnapGrades also provides many means for which students can view their grades throughout the quarter. This ranges from online statistics to printed out reports.
Along with grading management, SnapGrades supports attendence taking. This is featured both in the web-browser application, and through an iPhone App, allowing attendence to be easily taken both in the classroom, and outside of the classroom.
Good Features:
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Support for many different classes at the same time
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Grades can be accessed from anywhere and any computer
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Attendence can be taken, both within the classroom and outside of it with an iPhone App
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Minimizes the number of page views/clicks needed to enter grades, to maximize efficiency
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Supports different styles of grading, including points, percentages, and solid grades
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Students can easily view grades and each have a permalink to bookmark their specific grade page
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Extensive support documentation
Bad Features:
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Grades cannot be accessed if there is no internet connection
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Only minimal graphical visuals of grades
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Grade and class information is broken up into multiple lists, adding complication
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Many features are hard to find and hidden away in a large number of option pages
Missing Features:
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Check, plus, and minus grading style
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Visual altering of grading curve
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Hand-in functionality
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Certain means of sorting assignments
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