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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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