ClassRoom GradeBook

Teaching is a profession that is both fulfilling and daunting and requires huge amount of effort, skill and the ability to carry out a responsible duty of developing a child’s intellect and knowledge base. Managing a responsibility like this involves lot of paperwork and memory exercise to take care of each student in a class appositely. Furthermore, keeping a check of each student’s performance, their grades and assignments along with various other miscellaneous procedures are a part of a teacher’s job. Computer devices are increasingly being used for teaching and learning purposes owing to their intuitive working and simple set up and one application that can be put to good use for teaching professionals which is ClassRoom GradeBook 8.0.

ClassRoom GradeBook upon launch opens with a systematically organized interface with the chief options placed at the top panel and spreadsheet like display that shows the student name list and interactive options placed for smooth navigation. This is free application for teachers and runs on a Windows 9x/XP and Vista Freeware program making the job of a teacher much easier and simple. The user can create class files with the unlimited number of students and even protect them with a password; besides editing class roster, adjusting contact information of the students and comments for each of them along with entering and editing grades. New users are also provided with a roadmap and wizard along with a PDF documentation file and context-sensitive help. Moreover, the user can also connect with parents through this application and compare the grades and further keep attendance records and create and save reports in HTML.

Overall, ClassRoom GradeBook 8.0 earns impressive stature for its suitable working and interactive functions and hence gets a rating score of four points for its personalized approach and user friendly premise.

ClassRoom GradeBook (former ClassRoom Windows) is a Windows 9x/XP and Vista Freeware program for teachers. It is designed to make your record keeping and grading much easier. Version 8 features a new active main screen from which many program functions can be easily performed. In the program, you can create your class files with an unlimited number of students, and optionally password protect your files; edit your class roster, including ID, comments and home-contact information; enter/edit grades and attendance; view/print students' records, by name and/or ID, in many ways; compute/print student averages and final grades by using many options supplied by the program (i.e., by assigning weights to individual testing instruments or to types of testing instruments, or by using points); save the options you chose when making up grades; save 3 sets of rounding modification values; and view/print statistics. A roadmap and wizard are included to assist new users, along with a PDF documentation file and context-sensitive help. All of these fully functional grade book features are yours to use for free.
Included within the Freeware package is an optional resource for those seeking some additional bells and whistles: a 45-day evaluation of ClassRoom GradeBook's 'Pro' edition. This edition makes it possible to append student info from a variety of text files; import/export names/grades for a full class; transfer names/grades for an entire class from one file to another; open more than one file at a time; set up printer options; view/print color graphs of student performance; produce seating charts; use a built-in word processor/mail merge to communicate with parents; save reports as text or HTML files for editing, printing and/or e-mailing to parents through the program; keep daily attendance records; compare grades among several classes and produce statistics; change the order of your grade titles; and edit the titles of type categories.