On Sunday 06 October 2002 5:05 pm, Tim Wilson wrote: > On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 06:43:32PM -0500, Peter Clark wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a gradebook program with > > a reasonably complete set of features that can import "Making the Grade" > > files? Or, barring that, one that would work on both Mac (Classic) and > > Linux? > > Unfortunately no. I try to stay pretty close to the Linux in education > news and I have yet to find a gradebook application that has the > features of any decent commercial product for Win32 or MacOS. Just out of curiosity.. what are the specifiations of a "reasonably complete set of features" needed in a gradebook application? I might be looking for an internship/senior project soon, and depending on the difficulty of such a task, I (or others in the program) might be willing to take on something like this. The biggest issue for me is not knowing what features get used or are needed. > I rather surprised that no open source developers have taken this task > on and stayed with it. This is one of the most basic applications that > teachers use and not having a decent one for Linux would definitely keep > some teachers from giving Linux a try. > > I'm beginning to investigate an online gradebook from TIES, a local > company that provides technology services and support for school > district. Being online, it's possible that it will work fine with a > Linux browser. It's certainly not free, however, since you need to be a > TIES member to use it I think. My High School used TIES for a lot of things, one of the things I think it provided was the abilitiy to tie multiple gradebooks together for a school (ie- submitting grades). Is this, in general, a desiarable feature? Jay