The Teacher's Marksheet

Software Spirit - The Teacher's Marksheet for Windows

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The Teacher's Marksheet lets you enter marks in order or randomly from a stack of papers. Organize into sheets (usually units or categories like assignments and tests. You can choose comments from a list or type them as you go, and create versatile reports or compact strip printouts.

Zoom in on a student's demographics or marks to view just one student by right clicking on a name or mark.

Click tabs to see other sheets. Name the sheets "assignments", "tests", etc. if you like.

Instantly switch between raw scores and per cent.

Enter A+, B-, etc. as marks, special marks like excuse, absent, not handed in. Attach a note to any mark.

Enter marks by name (type the first 2 or 3 letters of the name).

Comments chosen from a list of 500, or type individual comments. Up to 20 comments from the list per student, up to 4 in one sheet. Squiggly red underline spell checking & thesaurus.

Print out marksheet (optionally by ID or secret name for posting)

Print class list with squares for attendance or marks

Print student reports with many options including just the missing assignments

Print full page or compact reports - up to a ten students on one page.

click "email" instead of "print" to email reports directly to parents.

Export reports to student folders on your network

Organize your marks into as many sheets as you like - put assignments in one, tests in another, etc. or put a each unit of your course in a separate sheet. Any column in any sheet can be the average column from a sub-sheet, so you can organize each unit into assignments, tests, etc.

Tabbed notebook style for quick movement between sheets.

Simultaneously organize into categories so you can see the just test marks from all the sheets..

Unlimited levels of weighted averaging - weight the columns within each sheet; weight the average columns of these subsheets in their controlling sheets. Auto excuse from optional modules.

Blank marks: your choice of zero/excused in class average/ excused in student average.

Sort alphabetically, by rank, gender, secret name, ID or group. Bargraph by grade, gender, etc.

Identify students by groups - those taking a particular module or those working with a particular teacher in a multi-class situation. Choose to view only one group.

Automatic backup system keeps several backup copies

Averages and comments copy to the clipboard for your word processor so you can use the comment system for anecdotal reporting.

Up to 500 students per class, 1000 marks per student.

Import marks from LXR-Test (scoring edition)

Copy&Paste classlist to Palm Pilot (or other PDA), enter marks there & copy/paste back to Marksheet.

Works on all versions of Windows from 95 to Vista and 7. The whole program occupies only 2 MB on your hard drive. Memory requirements are very modest; runs nicely on any Windows computer.

WinTMS 3.0 prices
Teacher license $39
Group of teacher licenses: $65 + $15 per teacher
School license: $120 plus $8 per full time teacher working at the school
Department license (math, science, etc.): $120.
Updates from WinTMS 2.0
teacher license $20
school: $80 plus $4 per full time teacher

No GST (sales below Revenue Canada threshold), no delivery charge.
Delivery is usually via email now. Ask for a CD if you want one.

Read on to download a free, fully functional demo copy. It does expire in a couple of months and will annoy you by printing "Software Spirit Demo" on all your printouts. The demo can be upgraded to a teacher or school license with the addition of a tiny file easily sent via email even to school boards that block program attachments.

Recent changes & latest news for WinTMS 3.0

2010

Change to Gmail security; no longer supports Marksheet for sending reports to parents by mail. School board email servers never allowed it. Meeting Gmail's new requirements means updating all my development software and extensive changes to the program to make it work with those updates. I regret that reports can now only be sent from home through your service provider's standard email server.
minor change to SIRS import dialog to make long class codes fully visible. There were some reports that SIRS 4 exported classlist files that were different and incompatible with Marksheet, but this seems to have been a false alarm or perhaps a minor SIRS bug that was quickly corrected. (Sept 3)

2011

Export to web feature crashed on a course name that included a < or > character. Fixed Sept 29.
The old Export to and Import from Palm Pilot has been changed to Spreadsheet copy/paste and tweeked to work with spreadsheets as well as memo or text documents on mobile devices. There has to be a way to transfer the document to your computer so you can copy and paste. It works with memos on Evernote (evernote.com, free app), as well as spreadsheet files via Dropbox and iCloud. Help file updated. Nov 11.

Downloading a demo or update for WinTMS 3.0

To try out the Marksheet demo or update your licensed copy, just click on the underlined word "download" about 6 lines below. Your computer will ask you to choose a location - on your desktop or hard drive (remember where!). It takes about 5 minutes on a modem.
Doubleclick on the downloaded file "MakeTMS3.exe", click "unzip", "OK" and "close".
That's it for the update. If it is a first time installation of version 3, you have to open My Computer, C drive, WinTMS folder and doubleclick on WinTMS3.exe.

Download WinTMS3 demo/update (2.1 MB, Nov 11, 2011) see list of changes up a screenfull

The installation file, "MakeTMS3.exe" no longer fits on a floppy disk. Put it in your staff folder so teachers can run it over the school network. To transport it to another computer via floppy disk, install it on the first computer, then copy the files from the WinTMS folder to two floppy disks. The WinTMS3.exe program will occupy one disk by itself.

Download the WinTMS Workshop - an hour-long step by step workshop for beginners.
Microsoft Word document, 600 kb zipped.

WinTMS 3 will work as a demo unless you have purchased it. Installing it does not overwrite your WinTMS2, but it will make version 3 run when you double click on a file. To go back to 2.0, just open My computer, C drive, WinTMS folder and doubleclick on WinTMS2.exe. If you save a real marks file with 3.0, you may not be able to open it with 2.0.

WinTMS 3.0 Enhancements over 2.0

Editing in the zoom display – Now you can enter marks in the zoom. Click on a mark and type. Use the up and down arrow keys to move.
Email reports to parents - Just click “Email” instead of “Print” in the Print-Reports dialog. All the same options are available so you can email reports for selected students or all students, include the sheets you want, etc. Email delivery has advantages over the website method offered by one of Marksheet’s competitors: it goes directly to the parents’ private email addresses within seconds of clicking the button. Enter student/parent addresses in demographics, teacher email account information in Options-preferences.
Mark Notes - You can attach a note to any mark.
Teacher notes – for each column. These do not print out so it is a good place to keep reminders for yourself.
Spell check – squiggly red underline spell checking in all areas where individual comments are typed, and a spell check button for the list of comments. It even has correct-as-you-type just like Microsoft Word.
Thesaurus – available wherever comments are typed so you can select a word, hit the Thesaurus button and get a list of synonyms from Roget’s Thesaurus.
The copy/paste columns feature has been extended to include subsheets. You can copy a summary column like Term1 and paste it and all its subsheets into a different file or a different location in the same file. There is a special "paste without marks" for those of you who want to copy your term 1 organization over to term 2.
Palm pilot & other PDA support – enter marks on your pocket computer & transfer to Marksheet. More can be done with this if there is interest in it.
Startup options – designed to make it very convenient for network users to find their work.
Export to Trevlac and Spirit School - export dialog - course & section # are now editable so if you accidentally use the science 7 classlist for your math 7 class, you can get the course-section numbers from the secretary and still export your marks for report cards.
Bargraph - prev and next buttons added so you can conveniently move through the columns of the current sheet.

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