Some of The Best Gradebook Tools for Teachers

June 25, 2015
Here are some good web tools teachers can use to create and manage online grade books. These tools provide a plethora of features that enable you to calculate, save, and distribute grades to students.  Besides grading, these platforms also allow you to track students performance, record attendance, build students portfolios, document classroom learning and many more.

1- Engrade

It is the number one online gradebook in class management system with more than 2 million  members. Engrade is completely free and is a great way to post class information for students and parents . 

2- Plan Boo Edu

Plan Book Edu helps you with your lesson planning and makes your plans available anywhere you go. It also lets you attach files, Common Core Standards, print, export to Word or PDF, and share with your colleagues.

3- GradeBook Pro

‘GradeBook Pro is a powerful and intuitive paperless classroom management tool. Record grades, attendance, and student performance in an app designed with busy educators in mind. GradeBook Pro is a complete solution, there are no in-app purchases, subscriptions, advertisements, limitations, or third party services to pay for.’

4- Class Builder
‘Quiz Maker is an easy to use tool that allows you to create quizzes, tests, and assessments. This online tool gives you the flexibility to create quizzes whenever and wherever you want, provided you have access to the Internet. You can automatically print multiple keys, change the order of questions, and include vocabulary on your quizzes. It has never been easier to create and organize your quizzes!’

5- LearnBoost

LearnBoost provides you with all the software you need to manage your classroom and school. It offers an online gradebook, lesson planning tools and many more.

6- Schoology

Use Schoology to manage your lessons, gradebooks, engage your students, share content, and connect with other educators.

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Here Is A Good Way to Grade and Annotate Google Drive Files

March 25, 2015
Looking for a good tool to help you annotate files on Google Drive? Challkup is the answer. Chalkup is a great web tool that allows teachers to create classes and share different study materials on a message board that students can access in real-time. Chalkup lets you post discussion prompts, add comments to discussions, distribute announcements and assignments and view files.

Chalkup also provides a very good functionality called MarkUp annotator that allows teachers to easily annotate files and documents they receive from their students. MarkUp is ideal for grading students assignments. It lets you comment, draw and highlight right on the file and students can always submit additional versions of the file. Chalkup has recently integrated rubrics for teachers to use when assessing students assignments and projects.Watch the video below to learn how to use rubrics for grading:

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NEW- Grade Students' Assignments using A Camera

January 8, 2015
Here is another good app for grading which I learned today from Cool cat teacher. Gradecam is an app that allows teachers to easily grade multiple choice assignments using a mobile camera or their laptop’s camera. Once the assignments are graded they can then transfer them with one click to any grade book. Students can also use their cameras to instantly know their grades.

Other features GradeCam provides for its users include:

• Share assessments with other educators in real-time
• Give students immediate personal feedback
• Create and print answer forms on print paper
• Link questions to state standards and generate standards-based reports

 GradeCam is available on iPad, Android, and on the web. Also, GradeCam has three version, a free one with basic features and two pro versions with more advanced features. There is also a 60 days free trail for the premium versions.

Watch this video to learn more about GradeCam.

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