The grademgr is off-line. Instead, I suggest using WebCT's web-gradebook package at webct.owlnet.rice.edu (send email to webct@, and they'll set up an instructor account for you). Let me know if you have any questions (or if you'd prefer this grademgr back) -- ian@, 2005.Feb.03

Web Interface

The grade manager provides web interfaces for three kinds of people:

Students

view all their grades for a course

Labbies

view and edit all the grades for an assignment in a course

Professors

view all grades and statistics for sll the students in their course

The best way to find out about the web interfaces is to poke around with them.

The Other Interface

The other interface for getting things done is to send e-mail to ian@cs.rice.edu. Besides adding students and assignments (which should become automated), requests are typically for things like:

• Changing the total possible points on an assignment
• Halving all the grades for an assignment
• Deleting records of students who have dropped
• Setting everything up at the start of the semester

Setting up

To setup a course to use the grade manager, an instructor for the course needs provide The Other Interface with the following information:

• A file containing the names and passwords of labbies and instructors, in the following format:

  ((labby1 passwd1)
   (labby2 passwd2)
   (labby3 passwd3)
   ; .. more pairs ..
   (labby4 passwd4))
  
  (teacher-passwd1 teacherpasswd2)
  
  

• A file containing the categories of assignments, the individual assignments, and the points-possible for each, in the following format:

  #| Sample header file, for use by grademgr.
   |#
  
  ; Weighting of categories:
  ;
  (0.00   ; letter-grade (well, gradepoint.)  Only useful at end of semester.
   0.40   ; hw
   0.50   ; exams
   0.10)  ; project
  
  ; Assignments within each category:
  ;
  ((grade)
   (hw01 hw02 hw03 hw04 hw05 hw06 hw07 hw08 hw09)
   (exam-1 exam-2 exam-3) 
   (project))
  
  ; Points possible:
  ;
  ((13/3)
   (10 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20)  ; hw
   (50 100 100)                  ; exam
   (50))                         ; project
  
  
  #|
   Note that the letter-grade category is admittedly a bit odd:
   i'll only record a score at end of the semester; 
   that way, students can know their grade as soon as it's been entered.
   I only include it now, so that i won't have to pester the
   database maintainer to add it, after classes have ended,
   since not currently a web interface to add assignments/categories.
  |#
  
  

• Once the database maintainer has installed these files, you can add students via web form.