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iGradePlus

Score8.4 out of 10

6 Reviews and Ratings

What is iGradePlus?

iGradePlus is a web-based gradebook and school management system offering a wide array of features for individual teachers, schools and districts. Features include student, class, and grade management, attendance and behavior tracking, custom report generation, and extensive student and parent communication features. Individual web portal accounts for students and parents are included with certain subscriptions at no additional cost.

Grading with iGradePlus

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use iGradePlus as my grade book for my classes. I have 74 students spread out over grades 4-6 and it would be a monumental task for me to keep their grades manually or on excel.

iGradePlus makes grade entry easy and reliable. It is greatly useful when students need to be excused from an assignment because they were absent for the test or in class activity. The program also makes it easy to report the grades I have recorded when they need to be turned in at the end of a term.

It has been easy for me to access and use. I have two ESL assistants, and they have been able to use it as well.

When I had trouble using it on my tablet, the company responded to my help request quickly and with a good solution.

They have not charged me anything for using it, and have not put ads in front of me trying to make me buy something or make it more difficult to use.

Pros

  • The best part was being able to excuse students from an assignment
  • It lets you look for assignments by category, so there are less to look through.
  • The way to print out a grade report works well.
  • There are good instructions for the way to use the program.

Cons

  • The student list includes all the students and there doesn't seem to be a way to keep a search to just one class of students.
  • Maybe there should be a warning when you first enter grades on an assignment, when you try to do something else, that you haven't saved that assignment yet and it will be lost if you do that other thing.

Return on Investment

  • The program has been free for me. The company doesn't put up ads in my way asking for me to upgrade or let other ads in that make it more difficult to use.
  • The program has saved me many hours of time that I have then been able to use in teaching, actual grading, and other preparations.
  • The program provides averages and other statistics that are helpful for me to use in evaluating the progress of my classes and students.

Usability

Great Value for Tight Budgets

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

iGradePlus is our electronic grade book and school management system. We keep student demographic information, grades, and billing information in this system.

Pros

  • Keeping Accurate Grades
  • Storing Student Information
  • Providing a Platform for Billing

Cons

  • The transcript templates need to be improved.
  • I would love to see them add services for canteen management (point of sale).
  • I would love to see them add services for library management (circulation).

Return on Investment

  • iGradePlus is good for the price. It's affordable for a new school's budget.
  • The report card template is customizable and professional, which helps support our branding.

Alternatives Considered

FACTS Student Information System

iGrade Plus - Excellent Choice!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My experience with iGrade Plus has been TERRIFIC!! It's a platform user friendly, it's easy to assign classwork, tests, behavior, class materials, etc. As a teacher, I can create lesson plans, give follow ups, post or schedule assignments, grade super fast, look up for a specific student profile and have all their demographics and overall performance in one screen. Teachers also have an statistics or KPIs of the groups they give classes to. Students have a "student access" as well, which allows them to track their grades, dates and time they turn in their work, and they can even upload all of the assignments on the platform. Parents also have their access to track everything as well.

Pros

  • Handy and useful student data.
  • Easy to post assignments.
  • Easy to grade assignments, check assignments and correct grades if needed.

Cons

  • I would like the attendance record to be easier to read.

Return on Investment

  • KPIs updated and ready any time you need them.
  • Easy to oversee teacher and student performance.

Best free LMS/SMS app!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use iGradePlus for recording attendance, logging daily lessons, parent monitoring and communication, keeping student and guardian information, lesson planning and school calendar monitoring. The free version of iGradePlus has these functionalities that other LMS sites offer only in paid versions so iGradePlus definitely helped us in reducing the cost used for an LMS.

Pros

  • It's record keeping function is robust in its free version.
  • Client support is very responsive.
  • It's set up guide is thorough.
  • The homepage with the news feed is clean and easy on the eyes.

Cons

  • Setting up takes time to do.
  • It lacks basic integrations with some web apps such as Seesaw and Google.
  • The lesson planning functionality needs to be made easier to use.

Return on Investment

  • More than half of our clients monitor their child's attendance and lesson logs as seen through the parent portal access count.
  • Our record keeping is now centralized.
  • iGradePlus became a proof of our legitimacy for some of our parents.

Alternatives Considered

Chalk

Other Software Used

Seesaw, Whiteboard.chat

Easy to use and setup

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am a missionary that teaches English at a local public school in a village. This year I have decided to transition from paper grades to a digital grade tracker. iGradePlus is working great for me and it saves me a lot of time trying to calculate students' grades. It also lets me add notes for the parents and students to see. I love its ease of use and for the most part, it is very intuitive. God Bless.

Pros

  • Track student scores
  • Generates individual reports
  • Allows me to see which students are missing assignments

Cons

  • Reporting - I need a report that shows scores for all assignments for all students to turn into the local school administrator.