1.5.1. TrackMyGrades
TrackMyGrades.com is a purely online grade book for teachers. It is designed to accommodate the needs of any professor from elementary school to college. The system can be used by a single professor or by the entire school. It provides a secure student/parent portal for viewing grades.
Overall the grading side of the software does a good job is lacking quite a bit in grade curving options and complete lacks the ability of the student to predict grades.
Good Features:
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Looks and functions like a paper grade book. Student names on the left, assignments on the top, and scores in the center
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Ability to import students from multiple file types and formats
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Ability to choose grading scheme: points, percentage, or weighted
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Assignments are grouped into pre-defined categories
Bad Features:
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Grade book didn't show all assignments at the same time, you had to choose a category
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Assignment sorting had to be chosen from options menu and couldn't be changed directly from the grade book
Missing Features:
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There isn't an option to sort grade book by total grades, assignment grades, first and last name
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Histogram of student grades for each assignment and total grades
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Student what if portal to predict grades
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Ability to choose grading scale
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Ability to curve grades
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Versioning / back-ups of the grade book
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Ability to allow student to hand-in files with time stamp
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Add late penalties into grade based hand-in time stamp
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