Online Grades 3.2.2 review

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Online Grades is the leading free-software project that allows K-12+ student grades to be posted onto a dynamic web site

License: GPL (GNU General Public License)
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Developer: Beau Huber
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Online Grades is the leading free-software project that allows K-12+ student grades to be posted onto a dynamic web site. Online Grades is not a web-based gradebook. Instead, it accepts grade export information from several popular gradebook software programs such as Easy Grade Pro, Gradekeeper, Misty City's Grade Machine, and PGGP and places the grade information online securely.

Student, Teachers, Parents, and Administrators each get their own personal login into Online Grades, which allows them to see all of the grades in all of their classes. If parents have more than one student at a school or district, they only need one parent login to see the grades of all of their students.

The Online Grades software is free; there is no software cost to post your grade results online. However, to use the software, both an internet-accessible web server with PHP and access to a MySQL database are necessary. Because of these requirements, Online Grades is commonly set up and configured by a school or district tech person. If your school or district does not have the resources to set up Online Grades, you can alternatively buy hosting for your grades. Hosting is even available for individual teachers interested in using Online Grades.

Online Grades is free because the software is developed by volunteers and is in-part sponsored by the schools using the Online Grades software. Online Grades was originally based on the SourceForge project Basmati, and while backward compatibility has been maintained, Online Grades has many more features than the original Basmati grade posting software.

Here are some key features of "Online Grades":
Administration Center

Password Protected
Support for Multiple Administrators
Admin Editor/Deletion
Staff Editor/Deletion
Built-in Email Client, Email Any or All Staff from with-in appication
Email Welcome Info & Forgotten Passwords
Easily Look up Student Password
Helpful SQL Tools (Need need to know sql)
Posting History (See What Others Are Doing & When)
Add Students
Edit/Delete Students
Online Grades Stats
Update Checker
Ability to run a SQL Query
Skinable & Skin Chooser

Faculty Center

Password Protected
Lost Password Recovery
Simple and Easy to Use
View any student grades with a couple clicks
Server Time Check (Know when you submitted)
Ability to Email Other Staff Members
Add Notes To Entire Class
Add Notes To One Student (Privite Note)
Posting History (See What Others Are Doing)
Easy Removal of Classes
Ability to Change Personal Information
Skinable

Student Center

No Names
Simple and Easy to Use
Random Password
Lost Password Recovery
Shows All Classes In One Easy Place
Each Class Has Detailed Grade book (See Demo)
Show All Class Memo
Email Teachers within Application (No Email Client Needed)
Preferences
Skinable

Parent Center

Ability to have multiple student per account (login)
Simple and Easy to Use
Random Password
Lost Password Recovery
Shows All Classes In One Easy Place
Each Class Has Detailed Grade book (See Demo)
Show All Class Memo
Email Teachers within Application (No Email Client Needed)
Preferences
Skinable

What's New in This Release:
This release incorporates several bugfixes and adds a few new minor features.
There are no database changes this release, so upgrading consists only of upgrading the files on your server to the new versions.
A bug which caused all interfaces to go offline when the student area is set to be offline was fixed.
The bug which prevented faculty from changing their password was fixed.

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