Finally, I wish teachers had the ability to simply look up students' grades in other classes without having admin access in iGrade. That requires me to go and delete them all, which can be very time consuming (even if trying to do a bulk delete, which seems to slow the program down significantly). One other feature I don't like is that grades copy automatically when we start a new school year: this means if I taught English 10 1st period last year, but this year I teach English 12 1st period, my gradebook for 1st period is FULL of all of the old assignments from 1st period last year. It just says they have 3 absences, but doesn't say in which period (unless you go through extra steps to figure it out). iGrade is the Top Collaboration GradeBook allowing Teachers, Students and Parents to keep track of Grades, Notes, Behavior and Attendance Information. I sometimes use the administrator account to look up students' grades and attendance in all their classes, and what I notice is, and this is my biggest complaint with iGrade, that students' absences are hard to track per class period when you look up their attendance. iGrade is the ideal tool for HomeSchool, it allows several users to keep track of Grades, Notes, Behavior, Attendance Information and generates all the reports needed. I don't like that the default setting for attendance is "present" (but that may just be how my school administrator set it up). I like that there are things you can personalize, as in creating different assignment categories. Entering grades is user friendly for the most part, meaning you can figure it out with little to no training. I like being able to copy assignments to other classes I teach, which saves me time. This sort of account would not allow the user to change or alter any information in iGrade. I strongly recommend they create a "limited admin" user account so teachers can look up grades/attendance for all students in the school, especially when you are an adviser to a group of students for the year. The cons do get irritating though which is why I can't give it 5 stars. Overall, I am mostly satisfied with iGrade.
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