On-Line Grade Books for all Teachers

Recently, every classroom in my school has been equipped with a computer and cable-internet connection. The availability of computers in the classroom has encouraged more teachers to initiate an on-line gradebook; however, not every teacher utilizes this on-line gradebook system which has become an efficient way for parents to get feedback about their students progress in a timely manner. One teacher commented that her students said "teacherease.com" is their parents' favorite site.

Now to the Instructional Problem: because we have the computer and internet connection in our classroom, the administration, faculty, and staff should work together to encourage the use of one on-line gradebook system, namely, www.teacherease.com. In addition to student progress reports and report cards, lesson plan and standards availability to parents 24 hours a day, the site also offers other perks:

• Easy data entry by office staff
  Since data entry is a concern to the office staff, special attention has been paid to allow easy entry and retrieval. The time saved will allow office staff to pay more attention to their many other important tasks.
  
  
• Staff can access student data
  Authorized staff (principals, counselors, teachers, etc) can access student data and collaborate on student issues. This frees the office staff from being constantly interrupted for basic student info (phone numbers, parent names, bus route, etc).

One of the Catholic high schools on Guam uses teacherease.com across the board. Their faculty and staff brought their studies of other on-line gradebooks together at a meeting. After they evaluated each on-line gradebook, teacherease.com was chosen.