GradeA
GradeA is a Mac app for recording student grades for various assignments and calculating course grades. It is available in the Mac App Store. Here is a link to a demo version that is limited to five students and five assessments, but should give you enough information to decide if you want to purchase the full version. There are links below to sample files.
Features:
- Document-based application (create separate files for each of your classes)
- Import student data from a properly formatted CSV file (see Help menu for the format)
- Custom categories (e.g., Homework, Quizzes, Labs, Exams)
- Store comments for each student for each assessment
- Custom mapping from numeric grades to letter grades
- Option to drop a specified number of lowest grades per category
- Three different grade calculation methods (weighted average of categories, total points, total points per category with weighted categories)
- Email reports to students (or parents for K-12) using Mail.app (currently the only mail client supported)
- Print individual reports to hand out to students
- View/Edit grades by student (for changing a grade or going over grades with a student)
- View/Edit grades by assessment (for entering a new assessment)
- Undo support
- Export a CSV file with all the data
- Includes user manual in the Help menu (available in the demo version also)
Some people may wonder why use the app instead of a spreadsheet. Some of the benefits of GradeA are:
- no hand entering formulas and potentially making mistakes
- dropping of lowest grades in a category is automatic and much simpler than trying to do in a spreadsheet
- automated emailing of grades
- easily print individual reports to hand out
Sample files