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The Need

Assigning, calculating, documenting and reporting students' grades are extremely exhausting and time-consuming tasks, requiring the tabulations of an entire term to be done by hand or computer spreadsheets. In addition, a large variance of grading practices was found across departments and colleges. Because of issues such as instructors using different traditional and electronic methods in computing grades, the use of a standard electronic grading book should bring consistency into these practices. Not only does using an electronic grading book promote consistency, it also assists in promoting professionalism in documentation process throughout the University as well. As SQU is moving toward the electronic and digital era with great efforts to integrate technology in various ways, on the one hand, and toward accreditation, on the other, using a standard grading and reporting software is essential to ensure that assessment done by faculty meets acceptable levels of the digital age, quality and standardization, which are basic requirements for accreditation.

The Solution

Although many commercial grading packages are available, none of them is developed with the SQU Student Information System (SIS) and instructor's needs in mind. The majority of these applications are designed for school-level teachers or to be adopted by instructors at specific university system. Therefore, SQU instructors are being challenged to integrate any of these applications into their grading practice. This leads the author to develop a grading and reporting Software; RealGrade is a home-made full-featured application helping the University instructors to grade and report their students' academic activities and exams quickly and efficiently based on the University grading scale. It automates the tasks involved in scoring, grading, validating, communicating, managing and reporting grades. It provides a number of functions to import and export student lists, track student attendance and generate course statistics useful in evaluating student performance and communicating results to students and advisors more effectively. Many features were considered in developing the final version of RealGrade.

Testimonials

“Excellent tool, I really liked the simple interface and efficient grading sheet, with weighting and statistics functions”.

“That's really great. It helps to give accurate letter grades and very helpful in statistics. All our staff should use it”.

“I found your Real Grade 5.0 very useful for storing student's grade information on my University. It runs very well and has a lot of useful features”.