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OpenGrade

OpenGrade is software for teachers to keep track of grades. It can put the students' grade reports on a Web server and allow the students password-protected access to them. Features include:

• A variety of reports can be created.
• Grades can be uploaded to a web server, where students can have password-protected access to them.
• If you use a set grading scale, you can have the software use it to compute letter grades automatically.
• Grades can be based on total points, or on a weighted average of scores in various categories such as exams and quizzes
• You can drop the lowest grade (or the N lowest grades) from a given category.
• Students can be dropped and later reinstated without losing all their grades.
• There is support for extra-credit categories, and for categories that don't count towards the student's grade.
• Gradebook files are password-protected with a digital watermark, so you can detect tampering.
• Gradebook files are in a plain-text format, which makes it easy to work with them using Unix utilities.

Last updated 31 Oct, 2005