You can create and manage unlimited assignments - quickly, easily, and painlessly.

GradeSpeed™ offers support for English and Spanish assignment titles.

When creating a new assignment, you can specify which state objectives are being taught. State standards will already be set up in the system.

You can automatically add assignments to grouped classes. GradeSpeed will even “intelligently” group classes for you. This prevents tedious entry and re-entry of assignments to like classes.

GradeSpeed™ offers support for rubric assignments. Furthermore, administrators can create rubrics and pass them down to teachers of a specific grade level or subject.

You can attach homework documents to be available in ParentConnection, our parental access module. Inside, parents can monitor their student's grades, attendance, homework, and more.

Nearly everything within GradeSpeed™ is customizable. You can set up "homework," "tests," "quizzes," and any other assignment categories that you wish. Then you can specify how each assignment weighs toward students' overall grade.

Administrators can set required categories and weights for different subjects at the district or campus level, or simply preset some weights as guidelines for teachers to use when they set their own.

Teachers can set up color-coding for each assignment category for clarity and organization.

GradeSpeed™ uses Intelligent algorithms for dropping low grades, should you choose to do so. You can set how many low grades can be dropped from each category, as well as a maximum amount of assignments it should drop. Our system will drop the grade that will most adversely affect the student's average, even if the grade itself isn't the lowest. For example, if a student gets a homework grade of 40 and a quiz grade (which weighs more heavily on the student's grade) of 60, the 60 may be dropped if it would lower the student's grade more than the homework assignment.

You can weigh assignments as a percent of the students' overall grades or as a multiple. For example, "homework" counts as 1 grade, "quizzes" as 2, and "tests" as 3.

The software also provides automatic category handling for grouped courses. For example, all "biology" classes can have the same category settings.

Our teacher gradebook has a very simple, easy-to-navigate interface. It's very intuitive. New users will have no trouble logging right in and using it immediately.

Scroll through student grades with the arrow keys on your keyboard. The "enter" key moves down, allowing for efficient 10-key grade entry. This makes it very quick and easy to enter grades.

View student attendance directly from the main gradebook control panel. Everything is laid out intuitively within the teacher interface for ease of use.

Our advanced grade entry features make it easy to enter grades in by student, or by assignment.

GradeSpeed™ supports any grading scale - 0-100, A-F, E/S/N/U, or even a custom grading scale that you specify.

Teachers can print out progress reports directly from their gradebooks, or they can be generated at the administrative level.

Attendance is extremely simple to enter for teachers - one click and they're done!

Teacher submissions are posted to your SIS within 90 seconds, and office changes to attendance are pulled from your SIS to GradeSpeed™ within 15 minutes. So teachers and administrators see nearly real-time attendance records.

GradeSpeed will pull in attendance data from your SIS. This allows users to view attendance records and use reporting tools without accessing a second system.

GradeSpeed™ was the first gradebook software solution to interface with Chancery SMS.

Our free-form seating chart tool allows teachers to see the students' seating area and freely move them around with the click of their mouse.

You can display an actual picture of each student on the free-form seating chart. This is a very handy tool for learning students' names, as well as for substitute teachers.

You can also take attendance straight from the seating chart.

The seating chart can also be printed for substitute teacher use or for use during standardized testing.

Attendance is posted to your SIS within 90 seconds, and office changes to attendance are pulled from your SIS to GradeSpeed™ within 15 minutes. So teachers and administrators see nearly real-time attendance records.

Using the teacher components of GradeSpeed™ reduces the load on your SIS server. This makes it run noticeably faster.

Using our powerful reporting features, you can monitor all facets of teacher and student progress.

You can use our Teacher Verification tools and have teachers sign off on their grades and attendance records before they're printed on report cards or exported into the SIS.

Daily attendance summaries allow office administrators and attendance clerks to view attendance records for a teacher (or group of teachers) over a specified time period.

By assigning students to activity codes, you open up a whole new world of functionality. For example - administrators can see when band members are going to be missing a school day for a function and coaches can oversee all football players' grades and make sure everyone will remain eligible for the upcoming season.

GradeSpeed™ boasts possibly the most powerful reporting features in the industry. The built-in reporting features are second to none, and should fulfill 99% of your needs. But if you need to create additional reports to track different things, we offer a Custom Reports feature. Using a simple SQL query, you can pull any data stored in our database - in any combination. In addition, the new Ad-Hoc Query Designer tool allows custom reports to be created with no SQL knowledge required!

Built-in reports for teachers include:

Grade List
Category Averages
Conduct/comments
Assignments
Missing Assignments
Class Roster
Grade List (paper saver)
Attendance Roster
Failure Report
Honor Roll Report
GradeSpeed™ Monitor

Administrators have even more helpful reports available to them. Administrators can see...

• ...which teachers have not turned in attendance.

• ...which teachers are not keeping their grades up to date.

• ...the failure rate among students per teacher. This is extremely helpful for spotting teachers whose failure rate is higher than normal when compared to others.

• ...eligibility reports. These reports, based on your specified criteria, pull up which students are eligible and ineligible to compete in sporting events or participate in other extracurricular activities.

• ...report card data. In fact, administrators can print report cards directly out of GradeSpeed™.

Within the database manager, you can customize nearly every aspect of your gradebook tracking. Things like:

• Activity codes for your activity groups. For example - "Band," "Football," "Chess Club," "FCA" or any other activities your campus or district may offer. Having designated activity groups allows teachers and administrators to monitor the progress of students involved in those activities.

• Attendance codes. If your district uses certain attendance codes, they are defined here.

• Attendance times.

• Comment and conduct codes.

• Course properties. Basic course configuration settings are made here.

• Grade conversion. Here you can specify what grading scale your district or campus will use. 0-100, A-F, E S N U, or even a custom grading scale that you specify.

• Student characteristics. Here, administrators can create a custom list of characteristics that is visible on all student profiles. For example, this list can include things like "dyslexic," "at risk," "gifted and talented," and other general personality characteristics. Teachers can specify which of the custom characteristics each student displays. Once a teacher has selected any appropriate characteristics, all of the student's other teachers can see them as well.

• Report card Standard Definitions. In districts using our Custom Report Cards module, standards-based report cards can be distributed to grade levels assessed by benchmarks or standards rather than standard grading.

All tools, settings and preferences can be modified from one central location for ease of use.

Supports any grading cycle calendars - 6 week, 9 week, etc...

Triggers can be set up so that an administrator or teacher can receive phone, email or text message notification when a student dips below a certain grade threshold that you specify. Attendance can also be monitored.

ParentConnection is our parent portal. Parents can create an account and log in to see their student's grades, attendance and other valuable information. What's more, inside ParentConnection they can set up "Triggers." Basically, they can set specified criteria - like the student's grade dipping below a certain level, when he/she misses class, etc... - and then receive automated notification when the criteria is met. Trigger notifications can be sent as a phone call, email or even a text message to your cell phone!

Parents can sign up for a ParentConnection account or administrators can create accounts for them.

Parent accounts can be auto-approved when they are created, or the system can be set to require administrator approval before each parent is given their account. This helps prevent fraud and unauthorized access.

ParentConnection works over a secure connection - supports SSL.

Inside the ParentConnection interface, parents have access to a "school calendar" that can be updated and customized to reflect the upcoming events and holidays of your school. Attendance events are also displayed on the calendar.