Posts Tagged ‘Release’

The Brand New GradeMate

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

GradeMate went through a beautiful make-over today. We’ve spent the past six months improving the site functionality and look/feel of the application and we’re incredibly proud to release it to you. Changes and upgrades include a new Bookmarks feature, a brand new layout and user experience, enhanced and heavily updated security features, edit undo/redo in the Grades Manager, and a new view of your course pages.

And the fun doesn’t stop here! We’ll be making large improvements and additions to the service from now through the summer. Some additions include:

  1. Reporting tools for teachers and students
  2. Exporting and importing GradeMate courses and information
  3. Parent accounts and increased communication from Teacher <-> Parent <-> Student
  4. Blog pages, Project pages, and new, exciting ways to share and collaborate

We do all of this for you, for free, and would love your feedback and support. Don’t hesitate to send us bug reports and feature requests or let us know what you think of the web site!

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A Wonderful New GradeMate

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

We just finished up the newest version of GradeMate and it went live this morning. Most of the changes were behind-the-scenes improvements, but there are a lot of great new features we added for you. Here are a few:

  • Hide old assignments from your Upcoming Assignments list on your Dashboard
  • Rewrote and remodeled the Help Topics
  • Drag and reorder the courses in the File Manager
  • Each course now has its own settings page where you can customize new aspects of your courses
  • Assignment types are fully configurable – change names, weights, and even colors!
  • Added a feature request page for all of your ideas
  • Changed the visuals and added nicer graphics

And many, many more. Soon we’ll be adding more languages to the GradeMate application. If you know another language and would be willing to help out a great cause, send us an email at help@mygrademate.com with your information.

Feel free to browse the Help Topics for more information on the new features. Enjoy!

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New changes with v0.9.7 release and what you can expect

Monday, February 11th, 2008

The newest version of GradeMate was released today, and with it came a new File Manager. You can use the file manager to keep all of you course and assignment files organized and viewable in one convenient place. Uploading, downloading, and removing your files just got a lot easier. And as always, you get unlimited file storage space.

In the next couple weeks we’ll be working on letting you create your own assignment types in addition to the ones we provide. This will help you keep yourself organized the way you want to. Also, we’ll be introducing a new feature we’re really excited about – Groups and Project Pages. I’ll post an article soon going more in depth into this later, but Project pages will be a publicly accessible page for anyone you might be working in a group on a project with where you can share notes, files, to-dos and much more. Better still, there will be a message wall where you can add messages from your phone or email and even have them sent directly to all members of your team.

Finally, we’re looking for a few writers for the GradeMate Blog. We’d like to get some good articles on a consistent basis together with the GradeMate application. If you’re interested, navigate here.

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New updates to Courses and Grades

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

With the new release of v0.9.6 GradeMate gets a little bit older and a lot a bit better. Users can now set ‘assignment weights’ to their courses. For example, if you know homeworks will be 40% of your grade and tests will be 60%, you can set that for your course so you never have to worry about entering a weight for an assignment again. GradeMate will simply adjust the weight per assignment based on the number that you currently have.

It’s a much more convenient way to approach Grades, so check it out and let us know what you think. The Grades page also got a facelift with a great new user interface. All of your grades can be edited quickly and easily just like a spreadsheet.

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A new way to use assignments

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

GradeMate went through a much anticipated update today with the new beta release of version 0.9.5. Now users can choose which type of assignment they create, be it homework, test, lab whatever. Also, assignments have their own individual pages where you can add assignment specific notes or upload files for that item. Hopefully, this will allow you to be a little more organized and have more control over specific assignments.

Not only that, but we’re preparing for the next release which will see a complete makeover of the Grades page. You can expect more updates on that in the next post.

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