Learning is about more than test and homework scores. ActiveGrade is a standards based gradebook that provides insight into student strengths and weaknesses enabling you to target lesson plans, engage students individually, and improve as a teacher. Can your gradebook do that?
Organize your classroom into specific learning goals (known as standards) which are concepts or skills a student must master before moving on. Create your own or input common core standards.
Record assessment results and personalized feedback for multiple students over multiple standards at once, or for an individual student in an individual standard with ease.
Innovative standards-based gradebook layout reveals where individual students are struggling or where a concept might not be getting through to the entire class.
Grades are presented dynamically to students and parents as indications of level of mastery in various concepts. Standards based report cards give insight like no traditional report card before.
That a student has mastered a concept is all that matters, and her final grade should reflect that. ActiveGrade's responsive and customizable grading policies ensure an accurate picture of knowledge.
ActiveGrade is hosted on incredibly reliable and secure servers powered by Google. Cloud hosting means access from anywhere, no hardware or IT support necessary, and no costly software upgrades.
In being able to see which standards my students struggle with, I'm able to listen more carefully and actively to learn why they have trouble with those skills.
ActiveGrade allows me a fluidity of tracking student performance on course standards. I would have to fight a more traditional gradebook to track assessment in a similar fashion.
My students love the ability to track their progress in mastering the standards/objectives. In addition, my comments point to immediate action required for improvement.
ActiveGrade provides many great and free standards-based grading resources for educators interested in getting started including 10 Ways to Engage Students and our SBG Starter Kit.
Here’s my four-step plan for starting a renaissance without betraying anyone: full community participation, transparent communication, and a transition away from sorting and towards supporting.
It’s been a busy month! We’ve launched the first stages of our new interface, which makes it way, way easier to find and use the things you’re looking for. We’ve also added sorting to the gradebook (just click on a standard header!) and email alerts (so you’ll get emails when a student or parent leaves [...]
We ask because ActiveGrade relies heavily on "standards-based assessment and reporting" (SBAR). If you are unfamiliar with this concept we can provide additional resources to get started.