I responded to Laine and Emmorfia.
An emerging technology in my field is the use of Engrade, a free, web based grade book system for teachers. In past years many of the teachers in my school purchased Easy Grade Pro, which made life a lot easier on teachers. It stored and averaged all grades on your computer, but it was not free, not web based, and the teachers had to print out progress reports often.
The challenge is getting all of the teachers to buy in to using the program. Many prefer to stick to their old-fashioned ways of keeping records. If it were used by all, the teachers could all join the same network. Students and parents could access grades from all classes using only one username and password. Teachers would no longer have to waste paper and ink printing weekly or bi-weekly progress reports because the student could just go online and view their progress. What would make this technology even better would be if Engrade could pull grades directly into the report card system, eliminating the need for teachers to manually enter grades.
Click here to view a demo of Engrade.
