Electronic gradebook use

Fred Schouten (fschoute@mail.isbe.state.il.us)
Wed, 14 Aug 1996 13:23:18 EDT

Bill Orr wrote:
> I was wondering if you or other teachers at Peotone construct your
>own grade books using a spreadsheet app? Last week, as I taught a group
>of teachers about Excel, I first showed them how to use it as a database
>for their classes and as a mail merge tool for word processor documents.
>That worked well, but then I showed the group how to also link several
>spreads together so that one or several cells in the database could hold
>numbers/grades which could then be included in the merge documents.
>Needless to say they were all excited by the potential power. Because each
>of us has our own approach to grading, the idea of customizing through
>linked spreads was most appealling.

Great idea, and we have taught several teachers in our district how to do
this, but they seem to prefer the commercial electronic gradebooks.
Practically all of the junior high and all of the high school teachers are
using MicroGrade. The elementary teachers are still not completely into the
e-fold.

Fred

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