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Open the gradebook named Demo Gradebook. To do this on a Macintosh computer, double-click on the icon titled Demo Gradebook found inside the Easy Grade Pro Folder. On a Windows computer, click on Start in the corner of your screen, point to Programs, point to Easy Grade Pro and click Demo Gradebook.

You should be viewing the gradebook of a fictitious sixth grade teacher, Ms. Demo, who teaches reading, math, language arts and science. She also teaches science to the students in the other sixth grade class. The other sixth grade teacher teaches Social Studies to both groups. Ms. Demo is currently in the second quarter of the school year and you are viewing the score chart for the class Quarter 2: Reading. Notice the name of this class on the tool bar.

The Class menu on the tool bar indicates that the class being viewed is Quarter 2: Reading. This menu can be used to switch to any class in any term of a gradebook.
Press on the Class menu on the tool bar to switch to Quarter 2: Math. Notice that Ms. Demo’s math class has most of the same students as her reading class but the assignments are different.
Use the Class menu to move to Quarter 2:Science-1 and then to Quarter 2:Science-2. Recall that Ms. Demo teaches science to both sixth grade classes. The science classes have the same assignments but different students. To save time, Ms. Demo enters assignments into just one science class and then copies them to the other class. You’ll have a chance to do this in Lesson 2.
Move to the Social Studies class to view a class imported from the other sixth grade teacher’s gradebook. Notice that the students are the same but other items are different because this class was created by the other sixth grade teacher. Although Ms. Demo does not teach this class, she wants to keep track of her students’ performance in all classes and wants to include their Social Studies grades in the progress reports sent to parents and posted on her website. So, periodically, she imports the entire Social Studies class from her associate’s Easy Grade Pro gradebook using a floppy disk or her school’s network.
Switch back to Quarter 2: Reading. Now, click on the Attend. tab above the Class menu to switch to the attendance chart. Make sure that you are viewing Quarter 2: Reading. Notice that the new chart displays dates and attendance marks. Ms. Demo takes attendance in just one class, Reading, because it is the first class of her day. She could, if she wanted to, take attendance in any or all classes.
A class actually has six different charts: score, attendance, seating, student, assignment and standard. Although Ms. Demo spends most of her time using the Score chart, she does use the others on occasion. Use the tabs above the Class menu to switch to each of the charts. In the student and assignment charts, be sure to use the scroll bars so that you can view all the different columns.
Each class in a gradebook can have its own students, assignments and configuration of the charts. Before moving on to Lesson 2, take a few moments to use the Class menu, the Prior Class and Next Class tools, and chart tabs to examine the rest of Ms. Demo’s gradebook. Remember, explore!

Lesson 1: Moving around in a Gradebook