Engrade

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Permalink Reply by Alline Sada on August 28, 2011 at 3:33pm

We love Engrade, it easy for teacher to use.

My school has used it for 5 years.

 

There are a couple of "hiccups" to implementing it school-wide:

- Engrade upgrade without notice: You finally found your groove and they give the website a "facelift". Using it frequently is key to stay up to date with all of it's new features.

- Hard for parents to keep track of multiple teacher feeds: there is not a ONE STOP page for parents to get access to all the feeds. This can be fixed with an RSS feed reader on Google Site or WordPress

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Permalink Reply by sbstechteacher on November 21, 2011 at 11:55am

Hello Engrade expert!

How do I grade an assignment that is based on a rubric. An assignment grade of 5 out of 6 would get 83%, a grade of 4 using the same rubric would be 66% which is a failure. Please help me out here. Thanks

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Permalink Reply by Wesley Emlet on February 9, 2012 at 5:13pm

What I typically do with Engrade to avoid this problem is to make all of my assignments out of 100 points and "weigh" my categories within a subject. For example; my reading comprehension grades include the categories "tests -40% of grade" - "Quizzes - 30% of grade" - "Vocabulary - 20% of grade" and "Other - 10% of grade" I then make every assignment out of 100 points, even five or six question quizzes.  So I grade a 6 question quiz and my student receives a "5", and I say that's an A and put that on their paper.  So in my grade book, under reading comprehension, my category would be "quizzes" and I would put in 90 points for the assignment.  I hope this helps!  I love Engrade and if you need any other help with it, please ask! 

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