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Grade Trac: Piles of paper to grade got anyone down?

How many of you are stuck in a school *wishing* that you had more technology…especially one to one technology?  How many of you look longingly at the schools that are able to use Google forms or Turn It In to make assessment easier and more useful?

Grade Trac is a program that makes grading faster, easier, and provides teachers with more useful information to guide planning and learning in the classroom.

Grade Trac automates paper grading while offering increased accuracy and provides teachers with useful information that can be used to plan learning.  Grade Trac has shown to reduce grading time by 30% to 70%!  Pretty amazing…anyone need a weekend back?

Grade Trac automates the grading process of paper assignments, quizzes, and tests. Multiple choice questions get graded automatically, written or short answer style questions can be graded using the Grade Trac Rapid grading feature online.  Students grades and benchmark scores are automatically computed and displayed in Grade Trac.  These grades and benchmark scores can be printed for easy gradebook entry.  Teachers can quickly view a summary for an entire class…this makes it easy to determine what reteaching or next steps are necessary for learning.  After an assignment/quiz/test has been scored, teachers can generate a PDF hand back for students showing their answer, the correct answer, and comments.

Grade Trac also provides a place for teachers to create custom answer sheets with a mix of multiple choice, short answer, and essay questions.  The answer sheets can be enhanced with question text and pictures.  Everything you build in Grade Trac can be reused by you, and shared with other teachers in your school.

Grade Trac is brilliant in the way that it works.  First, teachers create an assignment, quiz, or assessment using the Grade Trac performance benchmark selection and question editor.  The assignment/quiz/assessment gets printed.  Students fill out the paper assignment/quiz/assessment.  These assignments/quizzes/assessments get scanned and all of their information is instantly uploaded to the Grade Trac website.  Any multiple choice questions get graded automatically.  The Rapid grading feature is my personal favorite- this is for grading written answers.  Let me give you an example of how this works, let’s say that we have 5 written questions.  Answer #1 shows up below the answer key for the first student.  The teacher can add comments and annotations as they grade.  Then they can view the next student’s answer for #1, and the next students, and so on until ALL of #1 is graded.  Fantastic!  This makes grading SO much easier.  Anyone else ever been grading and lost track of the number you were on and then suddenly wonder why a student is getting EVERY answer wrong?  (At least I hope I’m not the only one who has done that!).  When you are finished with the grading, you get a great summary of each question.  This is an at-a-glance resource for finding out what needs to be re-taught and where students need more challenge.  The grade summary helps guide your lesson planning.  The student hand back can be in pdf form or printed with all of the comments and annotations.

Essentially Grade Trac takes all of that paper grading and automates it, letting you grade it online.  No more taking stacks and stacks of paper home to grade.  Grade Trac puts everything online so all you need is an internet connection.  Pretty cool huh?  So, no more pouting that your school is in the dark ages, take this step and help them make inroads into the 21st century all ready!

Grade Trac was created by a parent of one of my students, he asked if I knew of 5 teachers that might like to try Grade Trac for FREE?  He would love to hear stories from the trenches of how Grade Trac works for you, what you might change, add, or delete from the program.  Not only will you get to use Grade Trac for free, you will get one on one support, guidance, training,  and fantastic customer support.

If you would like to be one of the five to test out Grade Trac at your school, leave a comment with your name, grade you teach, where you teach, and a way to contact you.  Five of you lucky ducks are going to say goodbye to piles of paper and use Grade Trac for FREE!

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30 Comments

  1. Hi,

    I am a fifth grade teacher and am always looking for ways to make my work load lighter. I would love to try your website for grading papers.

    Thanks,
    Mary

  2. I would be interested in looking at Grade Trac. I quiz weekly, and hand grade the quizzes (lots of partial credit). I’m not sure if Grade Trac would be a faster solution for me, but I’ve got a lot more students this year and I’m having a really hard time keeping up with the grading! So I’d be interested in seeing what Grade Trac has to offer me 🙂

    I teach 8th grade Algebra and Pre-Algebra at Crescent Elk Middle School in Crescent City, CA. I can be reached at margaret(dot)claypool(at)gmail(dot)com.

  3. I am interested in Grade Trac. I teach 7th grade at Athens Academy in Athens, Georgia.

  4. I would love to give this a try. I teach grades 9-12 in Memphis, TN. I can be reached at aewalker1(at)gmail(dot)com.

  5. I’d love to try grade trac! The closer the assessing and planning processes are in line w/ each other the better!

    Name: Becky Searls
    Grade I teach: 9th-12th (I teach level 2 Spanish & this year have mostly freshmen!)
    Where I teach: Upper Arlington High School, upper Arlington, OH
    How to contact me: email beckyjoy (at) gmail (dot) com!

  6. I’d LOVE a free shot at this. I teach computers / math / science at a small urban school in Cambridge, MA. @classtechedu is a great way to get in touch.

  7. OK, sign me up for this!!! As an English teacher (of IB and Honors’ classes) and mother of two small kids, I am constantly looking for ways to make grading papers easier. Google docs, GradeMark on Turnitin.com, and now this really interests me. Pick me, please!!

  8. I would be interested in using this program for quick, formative feedback–especially with short answers or longer essays. As a writing teacher, I would love to see students receive feedback, which is timely, personal, and constructive. Although, I do wonder if ANY program could do that. The bottom line: I’ve gone from 120 students and four classes to 145 students and five classes; next year, 180 students and 6 classes. I need to be innovative with student feedback.

  9. I am a High School Social Studies Teacher in Texas, I teach 9th and 12th graders. I would love to try Grade Trac. I love using new Technology and teaching it to my students.

  10. I am a fourth grade teacher in Elma, Washington. I would love to try your program (free or not) with my classroom. I just spent 2 days correcting papers and would love to reduce that work load!

  11. I would definitely like to try Grade Trac! I teach 4th grade in Omaha, Nebraska! Anything that will help me assess more effectively and efficiently sounds awesome! Thanks!

  12. Hi

    I teach 2nd grade in Los Altos, CA. I am always looking for new ways to do things, generally with my students. I would love to try a new method of grading and assessing student knowledge. Thanks for the offer! Even if I’m not one of the lucky ones I look forward to hearing more about this product in the future.

  13. I am a first year teacher teaching Nutrition and Foods, Adult Living, Teen LIving, and Food Production Management. Besides my 4 preps, I advise the FCCLA club, I co-advise the Key club, and I run the student coffee shop in our school as part of the Food Production class. Between writing lesson plans and grocery shopping alone, I have next to no time to grade, not too mention club duties and professional development. I would LOVE to try this program out!

    Nicole Manwaring
    9-12 grade teacher at Twin Falls High School
    manwaringni@tfsd.org

  14. Hi! I am a sixth and seventh grade Literature Teacher in Jefferson City, MO. I would love to try GradeTrac! I have used other grading tools such as quizstar but this one sounds great.

  15. I currently teach grade 2 and I would love to try grade track out! I am always looking for new and interesting tools and resources to share and talk about with my collegues!

  16. Hi there – I am a technology coordinator for Taipei American School. I would love to trial this program for my school.

  17. I’m a middle school technology teacher that often explores technology tools and then I share with our team. This would we worth checking out.

  18. I would love to try it…I currently sponsor the yearbook, without a class period, teach over 150 7th grade English students, have three inclusion classes,(one of which is an Asperger’s Unit) and two honor’s classes…any little bit of help would be wonderful. I also have student blogs for all of my students..please check out my page. http://www.ilovelit.edublogs.org

  19. Ryan, pricing information can be found on the Grade Trac website. I’m happy to put you in contact with them if you would like additional information.

  20. The team here at GradeTrac wants thank you for your overwhelming response to Kelly’s blog about GradeTrac!! We are actively piloting GradeTrac right now as we want teacher input as to how to make GradeTrac the best automated standards based grading system available. We definitely want to involve some of you in the pilot and keep in touch with the rest of you for when we can expand the user base. We very much appreciate the contact information many of you have provided and will be reaching out to you.

  21. I am the technology coordinator and computer teacher for our K-8 facility. We have and we are looking for ways to track grades/progress/ and efficiency time use for our teachers. GRADE TRAC looks like a great tool for us!

  22. I am an 8th grade science instructor and also the technology contact for my school. I would very much like to try Grade Trac for my teachers. Our county is all about data and this appears to be a great time saver/analysis tool.

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