4/11/2023 0 Comments Gradekeeper app![]() ![]() Attendance records are also easily edited so that, for example, absences can be converted to lates, unexcused to excused. Instructors can also add a brief note to a student’s record on a given day. The attendance interface allows you to indicate “Present,” “Absent,” or “Late,” and it further allows you to indicate whether the absence/tardiness was approved or not with a thumbs up or thumbs down icon. Rosters can be inputted manually, student-by-student or imported via iTunes File Sharing or DropBox (there are clear instructions on how to do this in the “Getting Started Guide”). You can enter your roster for each class, import (or take) photos, and also include a student email adress. If you take attendance in your couses, you’ll love GradeBook. It has all of the features that Attendance offers and many more. I had already purchased Attendance, so spending twice as much for another potentially redundant app gave me more than a little pause.īut here’s what I learned: GradeBook Pro is well worth the $10. GradeBook, priced at $9.99, then was a bit of a tough sell for me at the time, especially because I didn’t know anyone else who could vouch for it. GradeBook Pro isn’t cheap by my standards-I prefer my apps to be free, but on occasion, I’ll cough up the $.99 if something comes recommended by a friend or colleague. Last semester, partly inspired by Mark Sample’s post on “ Going Paperless in the Classroom,” I bit the bullet and purchased GradeBook Pro for my iPad. Still others might use the software provided by your college or university, be it BlackBoard, WebCT, Moodle, or the like. Others might devise spread sheets in Excel or Numbers or a GoogleDoc. Some of you might prefer to go at it old-school with a paper grade book that you manage by hand. ![]() Back in 2009, ProfHacker colleague, Billie Hara wrote about grade keeping programs such as GradeKeeper that might help you to track and manage your assessment of student work. ![]()
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