Online Grade Books

I choose to sign up for engrade. I teach second grade, so we do not get to use the NCWISE online gradebook, which 3-5 teachers were just trained on. They are suppose to be able to use it for progress reports also. K-2 teachers are still required to send out the paper progress report every two weeks. Since I am not able to use NCWISE, I like having engrade as an option to record grades. When I taught second grade in Guilford County 8 years ago, I had an electronic grade book. We gave letter grade third and fourth quarters. I loved it because I didn't have to average grades. In Forsyth County, we do not do letter grades, but only determine if the child is above, on, or below grade level. So, we do not always use the traditional grades to determines a child's success. If I ever change to an upper grade level, then engrade will be very helpful.