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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  • 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.
  • markwhitelock
    Hi Doug, is there any way this could be used by those of us who don't have numbers or a mac? Cheers.

    Mark
  • Nick Dennis
    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!
  • Unbelievably good timing, Doug! As school starts next week, I was looking at revamping my marking system. This is well thought out! Thanks!
  • No problem - I like to share what I do for exactly this reason! :-)
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