There were several things I liked about Engrade.com. First, it is free, which allows all teachers to use it despite their district’s economic condition. The self explanatory tool is an easy and efficient way to manage grades, assignments and attendance. It only took me minutes to set up my class and it would save teachers time since they would not have to manually calculate student averages. I was pleased that I was able to quickly enter grades into the program by being able to use the up and down arrows to go between students opposed to reaching and clicking the mouse each time.
Another benefit is that it is an online program so teachers have the availability to enter grades from home or school. Also with this system parents and students can view grades and upcoming assignments online with individual access codes. This would enable them to monitor a student’s progress and be informed about upcoming assignment. A disadvantage to this is teachers have to stay on top of their grading and update the system assignments regularly, which could become burdensome. Also parents and students could not benefit from this tool if they did not have internet access readily available.
A drawback to this program is teachers have to manually input an identification number for each student and if you change a student's number after entering assignment scores, the student's grade will be reset and you will have to re-enter each score. Also it would be helpful if you could sort students by grade for a specific assignment and not just by overall average, ID number and name. This would enable feedback at a glance of how students performed on a specific skill and alert the teacher which students needed remediation.
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