Dellview Elementary School

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New Features for Grade Speed

The Educational Technology Department and Campusware have been working diligently over the past few months to improve the function and efficiency of GradeSpeed.NET. We are pleased to announce that a new feature called Quick Edit is now available for your use. At this time, it appears that the features described below will be the default features for the start of the 2005-2006 school year. However, at this time, you can manually turn the Quick Edit feature on/off at your discretion as you begin to experiment with the changes. The Quick Edit selection box is located near the bottom left-hand corner of the screen directly below the LOGOUT icon.

When the Quick Edit feature is engaged:

1. • The grade book is always in EDIT mode…meaning that you no longer have to click EDIT or EDIT ALL to enter a grade. Just navigate to the assignment of interest and start entering grades.
2. • The UPDATE button is used as a SAVE NOW feature, meaning that you can click it at any time during the grade entry process. The data you have entered will be saved and you will be returned to the exact location you were at prior to clicking on UPDATE. (No more redundant scrolling).
3. • Assignment names and student names are frozen at the top and left side of the screen respectively…eliminating the frustration of trying to figure out which student / assignment you are working on at any given time.
4. • The column selection menu has been removed completely. The program will default to show you six assignments at a time unless you check the ALL ASSIGNMENTS box at the top of the screen.
5. • The selected assignment and student information are always displayed on the bottom of the screen for additional clarification. In addition, the name of the student is also highlighted in bright yellow whenever you have selected an assignment within that student’s row.
6. • The program keeps track of how many changes you have made since you last saved your work, displays that information at the bottom of the screen, and prompts you to save those changes before it allows you to change screen views (such as changing to the assignment or report screen). However, clicking on the X in the upper right hand corner of the screen will still log you out of the program without saving.
7. • The program will indicate that you have an error in a grade entry by highlighting the cell that contains the error in red. All grades that were entered properly will be saved when you click UPDATE…leaving only the incorrect grades that need to be corrected and then saved again.
8. • You are able to place your grade book into password protection automatically by clicking on the LOCK icon on the left side of the screen. You will be prompted to save your changes before being allowed to lock your grade book. The correct password must be entered by the 4^{th attempt or you will be logged out of the grade book. Clicking on the X in the upper right-hand corner of the password protection screen will log you out of your grade book immediately.}

1. • Addition of a "Late Grade" designation.
2. • Ability to track all components used in a rubric-based grading system
3. • Addition of Spanish comment codes
4. • Recognition of Spanish characters on progress reports or grade notes
5. • Ability to navigate between grading cycles from within the grade book
6. • Full scale attendance module for entering attendance data (no more TTAD on the mainframe)
7. • Ability to generate Missing Assignment Reports by student (all classes) as well as by class
8. • Increase # of dropped grades from 3 to 5
9. • Upgrade the operating systems on each of the 4 GradeSpeed servers
10. • Utilize the existing servers in a load-leveraging scenario so that you login to the least utilized server available at the time. This equates to faster, more consistent connection speeds.

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Last modified: 08/25/08