ReportCard is a powerful, easy to use grade managing program for the Macintosh.

To set up a course, simply enter students in any order, enter assignments, and enter weights for the assignments. The program automatically alphabetizes the students. As assignments are turned in, enter grades by number or letter, with or without pluses and minuses. Use one of the many common grade scales which come with the program, or create your own.

To view your data is equally easy. Pick an assignment to see how well the class did on it, numerically and graphically. View the students in alphabetical order or sorted by grade. The same report on a different assignment is just a keystroke away. Without returning a menu, you can cycle through all the assignment reports if you like.

Or pick a student to see how well he or she did on all your assignments, numerically and graphically. View the assignments in the order in which you entered them or sorted by grade. The same report on a different student is just a keystroke away; you can cycle through all the student reports in this way without returning to a menu.

While viewing how the class did on an assignment, double- click on a student's name to see his or her personal report. Or while viewing how a student did on all assignments, double-click on an assignment name to see how the whole class did on that assignment. You may view student and assignment report windows on the screen simultaneously.

All data are entered and changed from one well-organized dialog box. If you are viewing a report and wish to change data, this box will pop up over the report. When you are done, the change will be reflected instantly in the underlying report.

An overview window gives you a quick reference to your assignments, their weights, and the number of students who have been graded so far in each of them.

ReportCard is fully customizable. Your preferences about letter grades, the grade scale, how to count unsubmitted work, fonts, and many other features, can be set from a dialog box and stored with your data. You can have your preferences affect just one course, or all future courses.

ReportCard contains on-line, hypertext help. Click here to explore the help system, to help you decide whether ReportCard will work for you.

ReportCard was originally written for DOS by Peter Suber. Since then, under Suber's supervision, Earlham College student programmers have enhanced the DOS version, and ported it to the Mac. We will continue to support the Mac version indefinitely. When we create a Windows version, however, we will probably stop supporting the DOS version.

The current version is nearly finished. We intend to add the following reports soon:

• what grade does a given student need to get a given grade in the course, permitting "what-if" analysis
• an optional spreadsheet interface to all the students (in rows) and assignments (in columns), for those who can't break their old habits
• a printed gradesheet for manual data entry away from the computer; it will contain all students in alphabetical order and ruled columns of adjustable width for grades

Soon we will post a crippled version for downloading from this site. It will be identical to the full version except that it will neither save data to disk nor print.

To let us know how we can improve ReportCard so that it works better for you, please email us.

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Peter Suber, Department of Philosophy, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, 47374, U.S.A.
peters@earlham.edu.