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- The purpose of this program is to allow a teacher to easily maintain
- grade records for students, organized by class, and to perform calculations
- on the grades by student or by class.
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- There are five menus supplied with Class Record Book. The Apple
- Menu has the usual function, the File Menu is supplied to allow explicit
- opening, closing, and creating of Grade Record Books, printing, and closing
- the application. All file handling is taken care of automatically by the
- program, however, and the file menu options should only be necessary in
- the case of switching classes within the application. The third menu, CRB,
- initiates all services of the program. Font and style menus are also
- supplied to allow the user to change the appearance of printed documents
- from the program.
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- Add A Class
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- This command creates and opens a new class record book. A dialog is
- used to allow entry of the percentage contribution of four classes of
- grades to the final grade. The four classes are titled Quiz, Test,
- HomeWork, and Final, but these names can be changed to any that seem
- appropriate. The second type of information needed is the lowest point
- grade to result in an A, B, C, and D letter grade. One should also identify
- the name of the class when starting a new class record book. When the OK
- button is pressed, the user is prompted for a disk file name in which data
- is to be stored. File names have the characters .CRB appended to them by
- the program, and the class name is suggested as the file name. If the
- suggested name is suitable just press the save button, otherwise type a
- new name and then press save. All items of information have default
- values associated with them and displayed so that if no changes are
- necessary, just push the OK button. Otherwise, edit the defaults as
- necessary. The percentages associated with each class of grade must sum
- to 100.
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- Delete A Class
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- This option is chosen when one wishes to delete a class record book
- from disk. The standard Macintosh disk file dialog is presented, however
- only class record books are supplied for selection. A warning alert is
- provided after selection, since the deletion is final and data is lost.
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- Add A Student
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- This option is used to enter a student record into the file for a
- particular class. The currently open class is displayed. A student name
- and identification number are expected and defaults are provided. Edit
- these two fields to the correct information. Note that the tab key can be
- used to switch from one field to another.
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- Delete A Student
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- Use this option to remove a student from a class file. A student name
- is displayed, supply the name of interest, or a partial name. If a partial
- name is supplied a verification dialog will be displayed.
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- View
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- This command allows one to inspect the class file in several ways.
- The default is the class option which provides an overview of the
- information in the file. Averages are provided for the four classes of
- grades, along with an overall average based on percentage contributions of
- each class. With this option one is also allowed to change the class
- variables controlling percentage contributions and point grades associated
- with letter grades.
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- The second possibility is to request class detail, in which case a
- display of each student in the class is provided along with their average
- grade, again based on the contribution criteria.
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- The third possibility is to request a student view. This option
- provides averages for an individual student, and allows for changing a
- student name or identification number.
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- The final possibility is to request student detail. In this case all
- recorded grades for a particular student are displayed. Notice that all
- grades have an identifier associated with them. This allows
- communications between the user and the program that identify a
- particular grade.
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- In all cases the overall grade is projected if any category of grade has
- not yet been utilized. This allows for checking student progress during the
- grading period and prior to final examination. The projection technique is
- to average all grades in other categories and to use this average for
- inactive categories.
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- Class Grades
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- Use this command to enter new grades or alter existing grades for an
- entire class.
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- Initially one specifies the maximum point score possible for the
- instrument and/or a grade identification number if it is wished that the
- grades for a previously entered instrument be changed. At this time one
- also indicates which category of instrument is involved and whether or not
- the instrument is to be deleted.
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- When the OK button is pushed, one is presented with the name of each
- student in the class and the opportunity to enter the new grade or change
- an existing one. If the delete option was chosen, the program just deletes
- the grade in each students record without waiting for further interactions.
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- Grade identifiers are supplied by the program. In order for a delete
- class grade to operate correctly it is necessary that the grade be
- identified uniquely and identically in the record for each student.
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- Student Grade
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- Use this feature to enter new grades or change existing ones for an
- individual student. A grade identification number must be supplied to
- allow the program to identify the grade of interest. This number can be
- determined by viewing student detail for the student of interest.
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- The grade previous and next buttons are provided to allow scanning
- forward or backwards to the instrument of interest. No updates are made
- when these controls are used.
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- The student name can be supplied either partially or wholly. If a
- partial name is supplied the best match will be displayed, after which one
- can use the previous or next buttons to move to the record of interest.
- Once the correct student is located a grade for the identified instrument
- can be entered or searched for via the grade next/previous buttons.
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- It is also possible to see and alter a counter associated with the
- student intended to reflect absences. If no grade ID is specified it is
- assumed that the absence counter is going to be altered. Number of
- absences is displayed by the View Student option in addition to the detail
- class report.
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- Next, previous, and OK, all cause any changes supplied to be reflected
- on the current student's record.
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- Grade identifiers must be handled rather carefully to avoid confusing
- the question of which grades apply to which instruments. Student Grade,
- on the other hand, allows great flexibility in making any changes one
- desires to a particular student record. The standard use is to change an
- individual grade that has been misrecorded. It is, however, also possible
- to delete a grade or add a new grade to an individual student.
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- Analyze
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- This option is provided to allow the analysis of a particular
- instrument. When selected, one can identify a particular instrument and
- the mean, median, mode, and standard deviation are displayed. At that
- time one can curve the grades in either direction, either by points or
- percentage. New numbers are then displayed and further adjustments can
- be entered until the final results are as desired. Once the selection of a
- point curve or a percentage curve is made it cannot be changed unless the
- analysis is restarted. When done, if the OK button is pressed the curve
- will be applied to the permanent student records. A graphic display of the
- grade curve can be requested on which the x axis is the curved percentage
- grade and the y axis is the percentage of students achieving a grade level.
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- Reorganize Grades
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- This option is supplied so that grade identifiers can be reorganized.
- If a grade is deleted, it will leave a discontinuity in grade ID's. It is also
- possible to cause grades to exist in the record out of numeric sequence by
- deleting and adding in the Student Grade Dialog. When chosen this feature
- will sort and renumber grades for all students.
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- Print (file menu)
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- This feature is supplied to allow printing of a list of students in the
- class and their overall average and letter grade. A choice is supplied to
- provide a list with only student ID's for identification in additon to an
- option that supplies individual grades making up the average.
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- Use the shift/option 4 feature of the macintosh to print the active
- screen for hardcopy of individual view screens.
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- For best results use 12 point Monaco when printing.
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- Quit
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- Enter this command to terminate the program.
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