Welcome to Gradebook Plus. This program was designed by educators for educators to provide a fast, easy-to-use grade keeping system that leaves the teacher with more time for working with students. If any questions ever arise about this product, feel free to write, call, or email E.M.A. Software.

You may run Gradebook Plus either from the demo disk, or after copying all of the files to a folder on your hard disk. To use Gradebook Plus, simply turn on your computer, open the folder that contains Gradebook Plus, and double click on the Gradebook Plus v7.0 Demo program icon to start the program.

The Gradebook Plus program works roughly like this. When you begin, the computer will need to be told which classes you wish to monitor, who the students are in those classes and how you wish to grade. This process is called "Setting Up a New Class". Once this is done, scores for each class may be entered, modified and displayed much more easily than in a manual gradebook. Of course, each individual's grades must be entered at the keyboard, but Gradebook Plus makes this fast and easy. At any time, the grades and reports may be displayed on the screen or printed. Not only are raw totals shown, but Gradebook Plus will automatically calculate many useful statistics on individual students, on classes as a whole and on individual assignments.

This is a full working version of Gradebook Plus with only the number of students per class (26 instead of 45) and the number of entries per class for each grading period (7 instead of 90) being limited. Also, the ability to change the password, school name, and teacher name have been disabled in this demo. Included with this demo disk is a sample class that we have created named PER. 7 GOVERNMENT.

To use the sample class that is provided, pull down the File Menu and open the PER. 7 GOVERNMENT class. You can experiment with any of the menu options such as changing the grading scale or removing a student. Make any changes you wish as the sample class can always be reloaded into the program using the Import Scores option of Set Up A New Class for another demonstration.

After you have finished exploring the PER. 7 GOVERNMENT class, close the class and select "Set Up A New Class" from the File Menu. After naming your new class and selecting the options, we suggest entering four students to the class. Next, pull down the Add Menu and select "Enter A Set Of Scores". We suggest entering two sets of scores. When entering the second set of scores, pretend that a student was absent and type a "/" or "( )" to indicate a missing score. You may also choose to exempt a student from the assignment by entering an "ex". Exempted scores cause the student to have a different number of total points possible than the rest of the class. A missing score is treated differently depending on whether you choose to grade out of points attempted or points possible. After this data has been entered try making changes by either typing directly into a cell on the screen, or by using options from the Alter Menu.

Next try selecting various options from the Reports Menu using either the the PER. 7 GOVERNMENT class or the one you created. Some suggested reports to try are: Gradebook of Entire Class, Gradebook of Entire Class with Show Student ID Numbers, Sort by Rank, and Show Selected Entry options, Individual Student Report, Individual Student Report with Missing Assignment Only option, Individual Student Report with Show Entries by Category and Use A Form Letter options, Statistics On Entries, and Group Maker Report.