About GradeWatchGradeWatch is an intranet software package, which utilizes a web server to display students' grades. The only user side software required is an Internet browser capable of displaying HTML tables. Netscape Navigator 3.0 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 would do. Refer to the owner's reference for server's requirements. The login screen is generated by the package and consists of the course name, user name and password. After successful login student will see a table with information corresponding to his or her grades and common area corresponding to the course grade statistics. Instructor has access to each student grades, all students grades at once, can e-mail grades to one student or all of them, generate a mailing list from the roster, and access the software usage log for the particular course. All of that with one single power user password that can be set separately for each course. Please read the user's manual for more information on using the database and owner's manual for more information on installing the software package. |
Solutions for multiple instructor databaseGradeWatch is designed as a database front end which may serve more than one instructor as long as all files with grades are accessible for the PERL script. Each course can have separate definition of instructors password, name and e-mail address. Refer to owner's manual about information how to set up course information.Suggestions for a server on Windows NTWindows NT (server or workstation) can easily serve as a multiple user GradeWatch server. Just define several folders and set them up as home directories for FTP service, one for every faculty member. Each faculty could then FTP new updates of grades any time with full privacy preserved. The only work for the administration of such a server would be to edit the appropriate configuration file each time a new course is added or instructor would like to change his or her password.Future version of GradeWatch will have an option of updating the grade file on-line using Internet browser or manual remote editing using a simplified spreadsheet. |
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