Grading Online with Engrade

    One of the tiresome and boring jobs of educators is computing grades during card day. Add the fact that grade conscious students (and parents) want to see their performance most of the time even before that day. Filtering in Excel or any other spreadsheet seems a likely solution and of course programming your own in C or any other language could help but problems occur when many student ask it at the same time.

    Big universities started posting their grades on their own web servers but how not on small schools and that include high and elementary schools who could not afford their own dedicated server. Besides setting up and maintenance is more of their problem.

    Engrade.com is a free online service that lets you, as a teacher input your assignments (quiz, exams, homework, etc.) and set the percentage equivalence of each. Students and parents then see the results, including the items they missed so that they could make-up for them. Computation is also straightforward, you just set the parameters and the program will do the rest.

    Teachers could also input comments for parents to read and do the necessary guidelines. And if you fear that your data might be deleted, there is an option for you to export all your grade books to CSV files, which you could easily import in your spreadsheet program

    I have used it and privacy wise, it is better. The student/guardian could also access the site anytime and anywhere, provided they have an internet connection. Engrade, in my tests also is 99% up, it was down once because of some update they had in their program. Due to this upgrade, it just assure us that it will stay and serve for the future years to come.

    So now if you are a teacher register and have the benefits, and if you are a student, tell your teacher to go to engrade and watch the tutorial.