Engrade

== = = =Description=

Engrade is a free web-based online management for classroom, including the gradebook, assignment calendar, and attendance book. It helps the teachers to manage the database of students, ranging from grades to record of attendance to the assignment calender. Teachers are able to sign up for this service. Students can also sign up for this service, only if they get the access code from their teachers who are participating to use this service. It also allows the teachers to have secure communication with students and parents. Students also can use this to have access to their grades in real-time from anywhere at any time.

The service, brought by Engrade, is truly free and will remain free. We are able to offer Engrade free of charge because we have been fortunate in past business, allowing us to volunteer our talents and to pay for expenses out of our own pockets. In the future, we may add optional premium services (for example, a service to send student transcripts to colleges) to help pay for costs, but we will always keep the main features free.


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=History=

Engrade, based in San Diego, California, was founded in 2003 by a great team of successful Internet entrepreneurs who wanted to use their talents to help the world. Over the years, Engrade has grown by leaps and bounds, being adopted by teachers and schools in all 50 states and in countries across the world. Today, Engrade has more than 250,000 members. We are very proud to do our part to help educators improve the lives of students around the world.

=Impact on Teaching and Learning=

This tool is free of charge, which will be a great supplement to the classroom management for teachers. Teachers would have a peaceful mind, knowing that they have the database of attendance book, gradebook, and assignment calender online. Students also are able to access their grades through Engrade, so they would know their grades on specific assignments, quizzes, or projects immediately after the teacher input their grades online. Also, they are able to look up for upcoming homework on assignment calender, develop their own public websites where students and parents can view on who they are, and send the messages to the teacher to ask questions outside of the classroom.

Administrators are able to add this classroom management tool for its school, allowing the teachers to participate in using this complimentary service that matches their classroom management needs.

=Practical Applications=

This classroom management tool can apply to any grade level in any school that does not provide its own course management system. Teachers will need to input the database of students, set up the scoring for each assignment, and adjust the percentages of the grading in a course easily. Here is a list of complimentary online features, as retrieved from Engrade's website.

Complimentary Online Features

 * ===Assignment Calendar===
 * Post homework, tests, in-class events, and discussions; attach files and worksheets so students can download these materials from home; students and parents can post comments, send messages to ask questions to the teacher, and check their replies.
 * ===Attendance Book===
 * Easily point-and-click to enter scores just like a spreadsheet; capable to enter any custom marks based on the school’s system; and provide instant, private online reports for students and parents to view.
 * ===Gradebook===
 * Have Engrade automatically calculates grades for the teacher or they can enter the grades by themselves. Students can enter to view their grades from home or school or anywhere with an [|Internet] connection.
 * ===Secure Messaging===
 * Answer questions and send notices to the students and parents after class. The online messaging is secured and spam-free for only teachers to use.

=Examples and Demonstrations=


 * Demonstration of Engrade: @http://www.engrade.com/demo/
 * Demonstration of Engrade Registration: @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-jviEc602M

Meridian School, located in Orem, UT, has established its school site on Engrade. On the homepage, you can find all participating teachers at Meridian School who use Engrade.

=References=


 * Engrade
 * About Engrade
 * YouTube: Engrade Registration
 * [|Meridian School]
 * Meridian School: Engrade
 * Engrade for Meridian School
 * Wikipedia: Classroom Management
 * Wikipedia: Course Management System
 * [|Wikipedia: Internet]
 * Wikipedia: San Diego, California

=External Links=


 * Engrade: @http://www.engrade.com/
 * Features on Engrade for Teachers: @http://www.engrade.com/home-teachers.php
 * Features on Engrade for Administrators: @http://www.engrade.com/home-admin.php

=About the Author=

This Wikipage on Engrade was developed by Brian Nakamoto, a graduate student under the Department of Educational Technology at University of Hawai`i at Mānoa in Honolulu, Hawai`i. This Wikipage was developed for ETEC 602 course with Dr. Curtis Ho as a professor.