Item: iGradePlus
Rating: 9
Author: Jean Harvey

Overall Satisfaction 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 and Cons

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

They have good instructions. There are some pages that appear confusing at first, but there are enough directions around for me to figure out what I need to do to accomplish what I need to. I don't always remember what I need to do when it is a task that happens only once or only a few times a year. The grade report section looks difficult, but I have always been able to find out what I need to do there without too much time or effort. Also, when I need to import students from a previous year into a new grade book, the program has provided the information I need to do that.

Alternatives Considered

I used a different online program several years ago, but it went out of business. This program may have been recommended by the program that went out of business, I don't quite remember. I haven't tried other programs much, and it would be several years ago when I was looking for a new program, so I don't remember what I tried. iGradePlus worked for me, so I have stayed with it.

Key Insights

Do you think iGradePlus delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with iGradePlus's feature set?

Yes

Did iGradePlus live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of iGradePlus go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy iGradePlus again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

The program works very well for me, even though I am the only one in my school to use it. My colleagues are Thai, and they would have a difficult time working with this English program. Also, there is quite a bit of the program that deals with parental contact and other items used more in a United States school system that wouldn't work here very well.

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