Gradebook Documentation

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Permalink Reply by Marcia Bengry Alessi on June 17, 2009 at 9:03pm

Hi, Reynard -- Bryan is helping us this week to set up Haiku in our school. Our school uses PowerSchool/PowerGrade for our grades but I so far your grade program looks incredibly simply and absolutely more convenient to use if we are using Haiku. Your gradebook documentation is the best explanation for weighting, extra credit, etc that I have seen -- LOVE the visuals. Have you looked at Snapgrades? It has some amazing features that I couldn't do without -- might be worth trying to incorporate?

Permalink Reply by Reynard on June 17, 2009 at 11:09pm

Thanks Marcia, I'm glad you like the documentation. I think I kind of took a quick look at Snapgrades before, but not actually using it. What specific feature that you couldn't do without? We are planning to make some improvement to the gradebook which might be released early or late fall, so any suggestions are welcome.

Permalink Reply by Marcia Bengry Alessi on June 19, 2009 at 8:42pm

Since I haven't used your gradebook yet, I don't know what Snapgrades has that you don't .... but I love that I can print out a gradebook with all assignments up to date for each of my classes ... anything that is missing turns up in red so it's easy to spot. I love that the weighting is so easy for categories. Adding assignments is quick ... and you can add the same assignment to multiple classes. I like the feature that allows you to instantly plot where the grades fall for each individual assignment. When you have an assignment, there is a field for comments ... You can pull up data in a lot of different ways ... by assignment, by student .... easy to do quick fill for those homework assignments where most students get full credit ...

That's for starters but let me play around with your program and see if it does all of that. Our school uses Powerschool/Powerteacher but I much prefer Snapgrades... it is very intuitive, quick, easy, not a lot of switching screens.

Permalink Reply by Reynard on June 23, 2009 at 7:38pm

Thanks for the feedback. I can see some features we are missing, we'll definitely try to implement some of these features on the next gradebook release.

Permalink Reply by Bryan Falcon on June 23, 2009 at 7:43pm

Agreed...printing out missing items in red is an excellent feature, as well as the quick fill. The Quick Fill is already in our queue for this summer, but I'll make note of these others.

Thanks for the feedback, Marcia!
-Bryan