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Frequently Asked Questions
Q01: What is
GRADE GUIDE?
Q02:
Can’t I just do all of this with my spreadsheet program?
Q03: How do I install
GRADE GUIDE?
Q04: I use
GRADE GUIDE at school and at home. Do I need to
purchase two licenses?
Q05:
Will GRADE GUIDE write information that our school
computer can use?
Q06:
Will GRADE GUIDE Version 6 for WINDOWS work with my old
GRADE GUIDE
class files?
Q07:
What are grade categories?
Q08:
Can I store both letter grades and number grades?
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- Q01: What is
GRADE GUIDE?
- GRADE
GUIDE is
a versatile and flexible computer program used for the storing, retrieving,
analyzing, and reporting of students' grades. The program not only provides all the functions available in a
traditional teacher's gradebook, but its features allow you to perform useful
and important gradebook tasks that would be too cumbersome using a traditional
gradebook.
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- Q02:
Can’t I just do all of this with my spreadsheet program?
- If you
have a lot of time to waste, you can likely tailor your spreadsheet program to
produce the same numerical results as GRADE GUIDE. A spreadsheet
program is very flexible, but it takes considerable time to determine weighting
factors, to enter averaging formulas, and to format output. GRADE
GUIDE will do all
of this reliably and easily, and will produce reports which are much more
helpful. Teachers who use GRADE
GUIDE will get
better results, faster results, and will not have to work as hard to get them.
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- Q03:
How do I install GRADE
GUIDE
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When you download GRADE
GUIDE from this web site or receive a floppy
disk
in the mail, just run the program grgid5??.exe (the ?? will be a version
number.) A window will appear showing that the program will install into
folder "C:\Program Files\GRADE GUIDE." You can change this destination if
you wish. Then click the "Unzip" button. You can then place a GRADE
GUIDE
icon on your desktop by (1) pointing your mouse to an empty place on the
desktop, (2) clicking the right mouse button, (3) selecting "New" and then
"Shortcut," (4) click the "Browse" button and locate the gradeguide.exe
file in the "C:\Program Files\GRADE GUIDE folder (or wherever you chose to
have GRADE
GUIDE installed), and (5) click the "Next" and "Finish"
buttons.
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- Q04:
I use GRADE
GUIDE at school and at home. Do I need to purchase two
licenses?
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No, GRADE
GUIDE is licensed to a person or an organization, not to a
computer. If you have a license, you have the right to install GRADE
GUIDE
on as many computers as you want: you school computer, your home computer,
your laptop, and the one at your brother-in-law's house.
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- Q05:
Will GRADE GUIDE
write information that our school computer can use?
- If your
school computer needs a report written with your students’ names or
identification numbers and their final grades, GRADE
GUIDE may or may
not already produce a report in a useable format.
The roster reports and the form letter reports can likely be designed for
your purposes, and all reports can be directed to computer disk files.
If these reports are not formatted exactly as necessary, it may be easy
to create a conversion program which will take GRADE
GUIDE reports and
format them so your school’s computer can accept them.
Such conversion programs are often provided for a school that orders a GRADE
GUIDE site
license.
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- Q06:
Will GRADE GUIDE Version 6
for WINDOWS work with my old GRADE
GUIDE class files?
- Of
course. GRADE
GUIDE Version 6 for WINDOWS
will read all the information written by any earlier version of the program.
Just install the new version and continue working.
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- Q07:
What are grade categories?
- GRADE
GUIDE lets you
enter grades into grade categories. This
lets you separate different types of grades so they can be treated differently.
For example, you might want to treat TEST scores differently from QUIZ
scores, and treat HOMEWORK scores differently than ATTENDANCE records.
When you set up a new class in GRADE GUIDE, you define as many of these categories as you need.
GRADE GUIDE calculates an average score for each category and lets you combine
category averages together to form a grand average score.
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- Q08:
Can I store both letter grades and number grades?
- This is
one of the great features of GRADE GUIDE. It lets you save
letter grades, number grades, and something called word grades where you
determine up to ten words which will represent grades (such as PRESENT, ABSENT,
TARDY). GRADE
GUIDE makes it
easy to combine all of these grade types together to get averages or produce
final grades.
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