An electronic grade book is a teacher's online record of their students' lessons, assignments, progress and

grades Grade most commonly refers to: * Grade (education), a measurement of a student's performance * Grade, the number of the year a student has reached in a given educational stage * Grade (slope), the steepness of a slope Grade or grading may also r ...

. An electronic grade book interfaces with a

student information system A student information system (SIS), student management system, school administration software or student administration system is a management information system for education sector establishments used to manage student data. It integrates student ...

which houses a school district's student records including grades,

attendance Attendance is the concept of people, individually or as a group, appearing at a location for a previously scheduled event. Measuring attendance is a significant concern for many organizations, which can use such information to gauge the effectiven ...

medical records, transcripts, student schedules and other data. Some electronic grade books make grades, homework and student schedules available online to parents and students. Some examples of services that provide grade books are TAMO, Gradealyzer, Spiral Universe, QuickSchools.com, and GPA Teacher. All these provide an easy way to update grade book information about each student as well as the ability to quickly and easily transfer this information into the end-of-term report cards. In 2010 the British Government agency for ICT in education,

BECTA Becta, originally known as the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency, was a non-departmental public body (popularly known as a Quango) funded by the Department for Education and its predecessor departments, in the United Kingd ...

, put in place a requirement for

report card A report card, or just report in British English, communicates a student's performance academically. In most places, the report card is issued by the school to the student or the student's parents once to four times yearly. A typical report card ...

s for all pupils in the comprehensive school system to have their reports made available to parents online.

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