Class spreadsheet for teachers
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It’s a well-documented fact that I don’t like working with paper. Consequently, I track student attendance, homework and grades via spreadsheets. This year, instead of using Microsoft Excel, I’m using Numbers which comes with iWork ’08 for Mac OSX. Numbers has a pre-configured (US-centric) spreadsheet for educators. I’ve played about with it a bit to make it more relevant… 
I’ve set up the spreadsheet in the following way:
Title
The name of the class/set you teach.
Attendance
This is like a standard gradebook – use /, O or L to indicate Present, Absent or Late.
Homework
Colour-coordinated using conditional formatting. Entering Y, N or L (i.e. Yes, No or Late) makes cells change colour to green, red or yellow respectively.
Assessment
This is entered as a percentage, with less than 60% highlighted in red. Graphs give at-a-glance indication of class performance.
You can download the spreadsheet here:
Class spreadsheet for teachers
(ZIP, 104kb – please note that this will not work in Microsoft Excel!)
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Categories: Education
Tags: assessment, attendance, gradebook, IWork, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Numbers, Spreadsheet
I've just come across some great markbooks for KS3 Maths in the UK, they are the 'Building a Picture' sheets on http://glosmaths.org/resources.php
Going to trial using these with our Y9s to really focus on which parts of the curriculum they need to work on in order to move through the levels.
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Hi Doug, is there any way this could be used by those of us who don't have numbers or a mac? Cheers.
Mark
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Glad to see that you have learned the power of Numbers! Really does make it all simple. Now, if I could get it to create an excel VBA thing that I have, I would be VERY happy!
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Unbelievably good timing, Doug! As school starts next week, I was looking at revamping my marking system. This is well thought out! Thanks!
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No problem – I like to share what I do for exactly this reason!
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I've just come across some great markbooks for KS3 Maths in the UK, they are the 'Building a Picture' sheets on http://glosmaths.org/resources.php
Going to trial using these with our Y9s to really focus on which parts of the curriculum they need to work on in order to move through the levels.
[Translate this post]
I've just come across some great markbooks for KS3 Maths in the UK, they are the 'Building a Picture' sheets on http://glosmaths.org/resources.php
Going to trial using these with our Y9s to really focus on which parts of the curriculum they need to work on in order to move through the levels.
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Hi Doug, is there any way this could be used by those of us who don't have numbers or a mac? Cheers.
Mark
[Translate this post]
Hi Doug, is there any way this could be used by those of us who don't have numbers or a mac? Cheers.
Mark
[Translate this post]
Glad to see that you have learned the power of Numbers! Really does make it all simple. Now, if I could get it to create an excel VBA thing that I have, I would be VERY happy!
[Translate this post]
Glad to see that you have learned the power of Numbers! Really does make it all simple. Now, if I could get it to create an excel VBA thing that I have, I would be VERY happy!
[Translate this post]
Unbelievably good timing, Doug! As school starts next week, I was looking at revamping my marking system. This is well thought out! Thanks!
[Translate this post]
Unbelievably good timing, Doug! As school starts next week, I was looking at revamping my marking system. This is well thought out! Thanks!
[Translate this post]
No problem – I like to share what I do for exactly this reason!
[Translate this post]
No problem – I like to share what I do for exactly this reason!
[Translate this post]
Unbelievably good timing, Doug! As school starts next week, I was looking at revamping my marking system. This is well thought out! Thanks!
[Translate this post]
No problem – I like to share what I do for exactly this reason!
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