www.engrade.com is a website where teachers can create an online gradebook. Parents, students and administrators may view the current status of their grade by registering on the site for free. Engrade's development costs and ongoing maintenance is funded through educational sponsors that display advertisements in the upper 1/3 of the webpage. Schools can also use this site to publish attendance reports, upcoming assignments and report cards in real time. Best of all this site is free!
I believe most school districts are going to online attendance systems. The district I left is planning on implementing such a system with infinite campus. My new district also has such a system in place called Pinnacle. Both parents and students can benefit from such a program as they will always know how they are doing. The downside of such a system is that teachers will routinely be required to enter grades and attendance online so parents can view it.
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Great! We have an online student management system in place. It allows parent to access grades, attendance records, schedules, etc. & Yes teachers do have to keep up with uploading their grades for it to work! That's not such a bad thing:)
What are those teachers going to do who can't keep up with their grades?! Too bad for them. I like the idea of parents knowing how their student is doing just at the touch of a button. Let's hold the parents accountable for taking an interest in their child's education. Good site.
We also use Infinite Campus, but many of us still use Easy Grade Pro or some other gradebook. I haven't seen engrade yet but web access sounds nice. The only downside has been that grades and stuff from our old gradebooks don't update IC, but so far we haven't had any pressure from parents or our principle to start putting them in.
At Crossroads we use Gradequick web in conjunction with our Edline web pages for teachers. Keeping up with grades and comments as well as posting homework and reports to Edline can be a problem. Most teachers do keep up I think. We sell our school partially with our commitment to online access by students and parents.
Engrade is FREE! Then why is my district wasting the money on Infinite Campus. Currently we are using Gradequick and switching to Infinit Campus in January. My biggest complaint is that we continue to switch systems all the time so you never get to know one system well. I know with my district's gradequicj probelms I will be keeping a hard copy no matter what.
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