GradeA for Android

This has a lot of options and is pretty intuitive. For the things that are not intuitive (at least to me), I have e-mailed Dave several times and gotten super helpful, super speedy guidance from him. So I’m very happy.

I am a college professor and I’ve been looking for an independent grading program that I could employ outside of the online services (e.g. Blackboard) that are common. I spent a good deal of time comparing and this does what I need. The interface is clean, the sorting capabilities are simple, and you can export the class grades into an Excel or Pages program easily. There is a bit of a learning curve but this isn’t impossible if you’ve ever used a grading program. Just give yourself time with the demo version (on the developer’s website) and you’ll see if it will work for you. My needs were to grade for each student about four items, average them, and generate a final grade. (I don’t use attendance.) This worked. You can even put in notes for assignments to remember what you’re thinking when “that student” comes around wanting an explanation. If the developer returned to it for improvement (his last: 2014), then it would be nice to be able to export select items to Pages (e.g. Creating a sheet that sorted grades by ID number alone so the class could see the results privately; or having a stats export of a given test so that a page would show the distribution of scores [a bar graph?], scores, and averages).

Wish I had not spent the money! There does not appear to be a way to enter separate assignments. This actually looks like a program for taking attendence, everything is about taking attendance and not for keeping track of grades for each student. I spent over $14 for nothing!! Very dissatisfied.

I couldn’t figure out how to give different point totals for different assignments within the same category. I gave up after an hour. It was expensive. Too bad. This is not a very intuitive program. The videos seem to be about emailing mostly. The are not helpful. It gave me a headache.

This program was easy to set up and start using. I miss some of the features of Easy Grade pro, especially the nicely formatted tables that made the parent reports easy to read. If nothing else, please include the date of each assignment in the parent report.