Xgrader

As you may or may not know, I teach English at a local college. Yesterday was the last day of class, and Monday is our class final. I have a stack of student portfolios to go through and grade between now and Monday, and I also need to put some serious effort into averaging the students' grades.

As a computer-savvy person, you'd think I would have automated this all long ago. I haven't. Each semester, when it gets close to the end, I start noticing programs like XGrader, which Apple Downloads has listed under productivity. According to Apple, XGrader "automatically calculates the final (and current) grades of your students. To set up a class you: choose a grading style; specify the types and values of assignments for the class; decide which letter grade levels you want to use; enter the list of assignments to be done; and finish by entering the students. As you start to add grades for each student, the final (and current) grades are calculated and displayed for you."

This sounds cool, so I have downloaded a copy of the $20 shareware app to try out. In the meantime, I thought I'd ask my fellow educators among our readership: What grade book and class management solution do you use on your Mac?