New Grade Book Program

We have been hearing about it for a long time but it is now a reality. On Friday, Mr. Copeland, Mr. Melaugh, Mrs. Darty, Mrs. Peek, and I attended a Train the Trainer workshop for the new OnCourse Grade Book program. I will be spending the next several weeks going over it to try and thoroughly understand as much as I can about it, but from what I saw Friday, it is a really dynamic web-based program. Those of you using Snapgrades will find many similarities.

OnCourse includes a Lesson Planner, a Web page, a way to directly tie in your standards to your lessons, email to parents, progress reports, attendance, many reports, and quite a lot of other useful items. The administration will have to make some decisions as to how some things will be handled, but it does look like it will be a big time saver once it gets going.

The official launch will not be until the second semester and we will be having training before that to make sure that everyone is thoroughly comfortable and up-to-date on how it works. One of the "perks" is that the schools using it will need to have up-to-date laptops for all of the teachers.

More information will be coming.