Wow, what an easy gradebook to use! This was much easier than my last experience. Talk about user friendly. I like that there is no guesswork as to how to get started and fixing something is very simple. I see no reason for a teacher to reject the idea if an administrator wanted all teachers to use a computer based grade keeper. Computer gradebooks take the guesswork out of how to weight an assignment. I know some teachers that only have two types of grades (tests/homework) because they never figured out how to keep grades.

One teacher told me that there is another computer grade keeper (not free!) that has comments that are prewritten and can be added. Teachers from that school use the gradebook for their mid-progress reports. That could be a useful addition to this software.

Students and parents should like this gradebook. Being able to see one student at a time would be good for student and parent conferences. Sometimes it can be confusing to look at a hand-written gradebook. Privacy issues are also solved with the individual viewing option.

It is also great that parents and students can check their grades at any time. Students of all levels should know where they stand. By using Engrade it would save the teacher time from having to discuss with students what they are missing or what they earned. Even here on Saipan parents are becoming connected and have e-mail. It would be great to send automatic reminders for parents to check their child's grades often.

Once I get into the classroom and have some experience I will probably think of more applications that this type of software could help out with. For now though, I see no downside of Engrade!