As a teacher, you may have tried to improve your assessment process by using other solutions; other than the old paper notebook, of course. Excel spreadsheets are probably one of them. Compared to a digital teacher registry created exclusively for teachers they're probably not that effective.
In what follows, we'll give you an overview of the problems you'll spare yourself by making the most of the Teacher Grade Log features you'll find in Tap2Learn; our student management system.
Paper-Based Grade Books are Outdated
As a teacher, you are probably playing it safe and comfortable using effective methods; at least in the past when it comes to teaching and/or managing your classroom. But even so, have you ever thought that some of these proven methods may not be so competent anymore? Here are a few things about paper grading records that you will likely need to review:
Paper grading records usually have a limited number of pages; you need to make sure that you don't run out of space when designing your notebooks. Likewise, you will probably need to make sure that you don't carry a bunch of heavy papers from home to school and back again.
Buying teacher-grade books for all of your classes might not be that expensive, but even so, it's an extra expense that you need to cover. The same goes for schools that are likely to bear this cost for all of their teachers; in addition to the fact that the use of paper booklets is no longer an ecological choice, of course.
Tap2Learn Online Grading Books are More Effective
Tap2Learn's teacher grading book feature helps you overcome all of the aforementioned headaches. Specifically, you can have all of your digital transcripts, for all of your classes, gathered in one place; work on it wherever you are, whenever you can. This way you get the following benefits:
- The moment you create a list of teachers, the students enrolled in that particular class will be automatically populated for you.
- It is not necessary to perform the rating calculations manually. As you add student grades, student and class averages are created for you.
- You can create all of your class books in minutes and shape them to meet the needs of each class.
- You can work on the editable teacher grade book template and create columns to mark attendance, homework, quizzes, projects, behavior, or anything else you might need.
- You can group the review columns into groups of weighted averages and let Tap2Learn do the sophisticated calculations for you.
The above is just a part of the grade book functionality that you will enjoy as a teacher with Tap2Learn. Likewise, schools with multiple grade levels and groups of students have the option of preparing class files in advance or delegating this to teachers. More specifically, thanks to the role management functionality of Tap2Learn, teachers can create and work on their notebooks; which will also be accessible to school principals.
