4.0.1a, released January 2007Fixes: Numerous problems related to summaries, standards, reports, copying, dropping and more have been corrected.
4.0.3, released August 2008Fixes: Exporting XML Gradebook, dropping of scores, and several minor fixes
4.0.3.15 released October 2008Fixes: Auto-entry of rubric scores, dropping of scores.
So says Orbis Software, the creators of Easy Grade Pro.
Mine has burped for the second time in less than two months.
Here's a lesson in grammar: If something's fixed, it means
it's no longer broke.
it's no longer broke.
Dollar to doughnuts the next version will also "fix" dropping.
A few teachers get together two times a month to share techniques--we spent yesterday's session learning new technologies to use in the classroom. Shiny new things excite me.
I got back to my gradebook at 4 o'clock. By 8:45, I had 60% of the damage repaired. Another few hours and I'll be done with EGP for the marking period.
I may be done with it for good.
(Yes, it's wonderful when it works--but when the date comes up January 1904, when a child who left your class months ago reappears as an assignment title, when the program prints a number just slightly different from what you see on the monitor, well, trust becomes a factor.)
Does EGP save time? Yep.
Can I make do without? Yep.
Which is easier? Easy Grade Pro.
Still, expedience is not enough reason to adopt a program.
(And now I await the passionate cries defending a crippled system.)
Photo of ENIAC from the National Archives.
