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VAR Grade Version 6.0 November, 1994
(C) Copyright 1987-1994 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
--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 User'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 User's 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).
REQUIREMENTS
440K of free memory (512K installed memory).
One drive of 720K or more (a hard disk is strongly recommended).
And, if you want to display and print graphs:
Hercules, CGA, EGA, VGA graphics boards
A dot matrix, ink jet, or laser printer (NOT Daisy wheels).
FILES
Disk #1:
INSTALL.EXE Installation program for VAR Grade.
VARGRA1.ZIP Archive of the following files:
README.DOC Introduction to VAR Grade (this file).
*.BGI, *.INI,
*.PS Print drivers for VAR Grade.
*.CHR Fonts for the graphics.
GRADE.STR Required file for the program.
GRADE.DOC The Advanced VAR Grade Manual.
GRADE.TXT The Beginner's manual and Tutorial
REGISTER.DOC Registration form
SITELIC.DOC Site license information
VENDOR.DOC Files for vendors
FILE_ID.DIZ For BBS's
Disk #2:
VARGRA2.ZIP Archive of the following files:
GRADE.EXE This is the main program.
GRADE.OVR This is the (required) overlay for the program.
*.BGI Screen drivers for VAR Grade.
*.FRM Sample report forms
GSAMPLE.PAR Sample class data.
GSAMPLE.DAT Student data for the GSample class.
A.PAR, B.PAR, C.PAR Sample classes.
A.DAT, B.DAT, C.DAT Sample classes.
FILE_ID.DIZ For BBS's
INSTALLING THE PROGRAM
1) Have 2 disks with 720K or more free disk space, or a hard disk
with at least 1.6 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.
If they register within 90 days of a major new version, they 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.
3) To order direct from us:
Make your check payable to "VARed Software". The single
user price is $40, or $45 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.
This program is user supported. You may use it on a preview basis only.
If you find the program useful, you MUST register.
This version of VAR Grade is the SHAREWARE version.
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