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VAR Grade Version 6.0 March, 1993
(C) Copyright 1987-1993 by Dennis Revie All rights Reserved
Welcome to VAR GRADE!
Since 1988, VAR Grade has been hailed as the most flexible, complete,
and capable grading program available. It allows you to grade, record
attendance, and do seating charts for your classes. This is a complete
grading system, and will do just about anything that you need to do. In
particular, it will allow you to record, analyze, and print grades
and attendance, do seating charts, and have database items. Below is
a list of some of the features of this program. In general, the program
allows an almost unlimited number of students, grades, attendance,
database items, reports and analyses.
FEATURES
This program is flexible enough to allow you to grade your class
with the same methods you now use--except that the program does the
tedious chores of adding, plotting, and writing the scores. The
program has been written by and for teachers and requires no special
knowledge of computers or MS-DOS.
If you are not an experienced computer or VAR Grade user, there is a
beginner's manual and tutorial that will show you how to get started
with the program. It can be printed from the installation program.
This program has both beginner and advanced modes. The advanced mode has
more features. For advanced users, there is a much longer manual.
VAR Grade can be used for both grades and attendance. You may
grade with either letter or number grades, and you can mix and match
letter and number grades. You can change the points of any assignment
or score at any time. You can use many different types of pre-defined
assignments (tasks), including ones that are the sums, averages, and
weights of other tasks. Any task or combination of tasks can be
plotted, correlated, and analyzed statistically. Attendance and
seating charts for your classes can be recorded. Either individual
student scores or scores for each section of the class can be printed.
You can also add database items, like address, age, year in school,
etc. When printing, you can control page length, margins, and type
size. International users can change output, dates, and other
country dependent information.
There are no other grading programs that can do all that VAR Grade
does, whether they are shareware or "buy before you try" (store-bought)
programs. Try VAR Grade, then register it.
This program will allow you to have:
--up to 16,000 students, with 2,000 assignments per student
--up to one section per student, using numbers up to 65000
--up to 240 days of student attendance
--up to 200 database items
--up to 2 seating charts per section of students
--an unlimited number of classes
--up to 4 grading systems per class
You can:
--sum, average, weight, and scale assignments, discard the lowest,
convert to percentages, assign extra credit, assign final grades,
and much more
--plot any assignment for individual students or the whole class
--correlate any two exams
--calculate statistics on any assignment
--calculate & assign T-scores, percentiles, and z-scores
--plot trends for the class or for an individual student
--write the scores to a printer and/or to a disk
--write the scores by section/class or by each individual student
--sort students numerous ways
--define your own grading system(s)
--export and import data from other programs
--write your own printed reports
--read the disk based manual from anywhere in the program
--use a calculator, calender, and macros
--and MORE, in fact, do just about anything you want!
GETTING STARTED
Instructions on installing the program are listed below.
You can print the manuals on your printer when installing the
program. The Beginner's Manual has a tutorial that will show you
the basic features of the program. It is suggested reading prior
to running the program.
The Advanced Manual gives much more information about the program,
and can also be printed during the installation. Note that a 175
page printed manual comes with Registration (see below).
FILES
Disk #1:
INSTALL.EXE Installation program for VAR Grade
PKUNZIP.EXE Unarchiver: version 2.0 is required
VARGRA1.ZIP Archive of the following files:
README.DOC Introduction to VAR Grade
SITELIC.DOC Site license information
REGISTER.DOC Registration form
CHANGES.DOC List of changes from the previous version
GRADE.DOC The Advanced Manual
GRADE.TXT The Beginner's Manual
GRADE.STR Required program file
GRADE.PIF PIF file for MS Windows.
*.CHR Fonts for the screen and print drivers
*.BGI, *.INI, *.PS Print drivers
FILE_ID.DIZ File for BBS's
Disk #2:
VARGRA2.ZIP Archive of the following files:
VENDOR.DOC Information for shareware vendors
GRADE.EXE This is the main program
GRADE.OVR This is the overlay for the program
*.BGI Screen drivers
*.FRM Sample report forms
GSAMPLE.PAR Sample class data
GSAMPLE.DAT Student data for the GSample class
A.PAR, B.PAR, C.PAR,
A.DAT, B.DAT, C.DAT Sample classes
NOTE: on BBS's, all the files may be in one file: VARGRA.ZIP or
VARGRA60.ZIP.
REQUIREMENTS
--430K of free memory (512K installed memory)
--One disk drive of 720K or more, a hard disk is recommended
--To display and print graphs:
--Hercules, CGA, EGA, VGA or graphics boards
--A dot matrix, ink jet, or laser printer (NOT Daisy wheels).
INSTALLING THE PROGRAM
1) Have 2 disks with 720K or more free disk space, or a hard disk
with at least 1.3 Megabytes free.
2) Put Disk #1 into a disk drive.
3) If Disk #1 is in Drive A, type "A:INSTALL". If Disk #1 is in
Drive B, type "B:INSTALL".
NOTE: If you have a black and white monitor, you may need to type
"A:INSTALL/b" OR "B:INSTALL/b" to force INSTALL into black
and white mode.
4) Follow the directions.
STARTING THE PROGRAM
To start the program, you just need to type "Grade". The files
GRADE.EXE and GRADE.OVR, and a BGI (ends with ".BGI") file are
required by the program. If the manual is installed onto a disk,
it is accessible from within the program.
If you have a hard disk or wish to start the program from a
different drive, you must type the name of the drive/directory,
then GRADE. e.g., from drive A, and the program on drive C:
A> C:GRADE
The program will find all the necessary files if they are in a
default directory or in a directory specified by the DOS PATH command.
NOTE: If you have a black and white monitor, you may need to type
"GRADE/b" to force VAR GRADE into black and white mode. Further
directions are in the Manual.
REGISTRATION or INFORMATION:
Registered users receive the latest version plus a printed manual. The
registered version includes more report forms, more printer and screen
drivers, and a protected mode version of the program. If you register
within 90 days of a major new version, you also receive the next
version plus manual when it is released. Read the User's Manual
for further information. Site licenses are also available.
1) After installing the program, when in DOS, turn on your
printer and type "COPY REGISTER.DOC PRN" at the prompt.
2) Fill out the form. Please specify a disk size.
3) To order direct from us:
Make your check payable to "VARed Software". The single
user price is $50, or $60 outside North America. Site
licenses are described in the file SITELIC.DOC.
Purchase orders from schools and universities are accepted.
Mail to:
VARed Software
1490 Calle Fidelidad
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360-6819 USA
Credit card orders: You can order VAR Grade from the
Public (Software) Library with your MC, Visa, AmEx, or
Discover Card by calling (800) 2424-PsL or (713) 524-6394,
or by FAX to (713) 524-6398, or by Compuserve to 71355,470,
or by mail to PsL, P.O. Box 35705, Houston, TX 77235-5705.
These credit card numbers are for ordering only.
For dealer pricing, volume discounts, site licensing, latest
version number, or other technical information, contact us
by calling (805) 523-7546, by Compuserve to 73427,112, by
Internet at 73427.112@Compuserve.com, or write to the above address.
4) For those outside North America:
The single user price is $60, payable in US dollars. If you wish
to order by credit card, you can contact the Public (Software)
Library listed in part 3 either by mail, phone, or modem. You can
also order from the places listed below:
DP Tool Club
B.P. 745 99 rue Parmentier
59657 Villeneuve d'Ascq
FRANCE
Tel: 33-20.05.35.66
Fax: (33+).20.05.38.27
They accept orders from France, Belgium, or Switzerland paid with
VISA, Mastercard, or Eurocheck (with EC card number on the back).
This program is user supported. You may use it on a preview basis only.
If you find the program useful, you MUST register.
This program can be distributed as SHAREWARE, providing that ALL the
files mentioned above in FILES are included. It is NOT free.
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