Featured 3-3-2014: Lightning Grader

Lightning Grader is a web application that allows educators to quickly and easily create and grade assessments and generate robust reports about student, class, and school performance.

 

Lightning Grader furnishes three different styles of assessments, including flexible assessment, giving educators the ability to personalize questions. Essay questions offer four different-size text boxes for students to enter their responses, all student work can be viewed online.

 

Assessments can be printed on paper then automatically graded by simply scanning them through a regular copy machine and uploading the files to the system. After that, Lightning Grader does all the work.

 

 

With the Rich Text Editor feature, educators can quickly and easily choose from an extensive list of functions and math equations making it easy to create math and science questions.

 

Questions can be aligned to state and Common Core Standards with just a click of the mouse.

 

 Watch Lightning Grader | iPad Grading

 

Launched in 2012, Elijah Stambaugh, a former junior high school math teacher, invented Lightning Grader as an efficient way to improve his students’ performance without the tedium of grading stacks of papers.

 

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Featured: 11-26-2013 ThinkWave Educator

ThinkWave Educator is a free online grade book with a flexible grading engine, powerful reporting, and easy access for students and parents.

 

Versatile grading options let teachers use an all-points grading system or a flexible grading system that can include points, letter grades, check, check plus, and more. You can also create your own assignment types and use weighting.

 

ThinkWave Educator generates reports as professionally-formatted, ready-to-print PDF documents. Reports can be designed with an image, header, and multiple other customization options. 

 

Students can upload their homework files with a simple upload function. Files are immediately available in the grade book, organized by assignment and date. 

 

An intutive, easy-to-use interface can be learned quickly. ThinkWave Educator allows you to keep multiple classes in a single grade book making it easy to access different classes.

 

 

ThinkWave Educator is completely web based, no software to install. Teachers can access data from anywhere with an Internet connection using any modern web browser.

 

 Watch a video overview of ThinkWave Educator

 

ThinkWave Educator is available in a free, ad-supported version, or as a premium version for $49.95 (USD) annually per teacher. 

 

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