Has anybody out there found an actual purpose-built gradebook built for the rigors, the criteria, and the non-percentage nature of the MYP? I use an Excel behemoth that I’ve built up over the 5+ years I’ve been teaching the MYP (and I’ll be happy to share if anybody is interested) but it’s just not sexy enough to satisfy my tech jones.
I want something I can sort by criteria or by date. I want something that will allow me to determine the “highest level of sustained achievement” easily. I think I know what I would like it to look like, I just have no idea how to create something so complicated in Access (or any other database program).
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HI Clint…
I will be interested if you get any good responses! My gradebook on excel is a mess-I can’t fit enough things in to view all 6 criterion over the entire year…maybe i need to do a page per criteria. I would be keen to see what your current one looks like!
@Andrea (are you down with the Twitter yet?).
Here is a sample gradebook with no names:
Sample MYP Gradebook Tell me what you think. Can we improve it?
@Mr. H
Can’t open your file. It saves as a *.doc file, though I can see that it’s an Excel 2007 file, and gives me an error message that it was created with a “pre-release” version of Office 2007 and therefore cannot be opened.
Hmm… Microsoft making things easy for everyone once again. Or just my own ineptitude. Either way, I’ve saved it as an .xls file. Try THIS:
sample-myp-gradebook.xls
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