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GradeMate iPhone App Now Available!

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

The new GradeMate iPhone app is finally in the iTunes Store, and it’s 100% free! We wanted to get at least a basic version out there so you could see what it is we’re working on, and plan on offering a bunch of fun new features in the upcoming weeks and months through updates.

One of the more important features in version 1.0 — and one that took us the longest to get right — is the full synchronization between the mobile and online applications. This means that whatever you do with your courses, assignments, notes, or files, those changes can be immediately seen no matter how you access GradeMate. So for example, if you add a course and some assignments online, and then fire up the mobile application, the app will pull any changes you made and update everything, all in the background. And even better: if you add some information on the mobile app — with or without an Internet or network connection, and on either an iPhone or iPod Touch — those changes will get pushed to GradeMate online the next time your device gets connected! Your data is with you wherever you go, with or without an Internet connection.

Right now, you can view your courses, edit their information or settings, and add new ones. Assignments and notes can be added for courses that you made, and you can see all of your existing assignments by course or in a calendar list view, along with their notes and attached files. The Courses tab will also let you go online to your saved links either within GradeMate or on Safari, and you can access your files right in the app as well. And if you have any GradeMate messages (sent or received) you can view those right there in the app too.

We’re hoping to get some feedback on what it is that you guys want to see in the next updates, or just GradeMate features in general, so send us anything through the iPhone app’s feedback form or right here!

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GradeMate iPhone App – Sneak Preview!

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

We’ve been hard at work developing the heavily requested, long awaited GradeMate iPhone application, and it’s just a few days away from being submitted to the App Store. Check out the demo below to get a first look at what you can do with the app.

Subscribe to the GradeMate blog to be the first to know when the GradeMate iPhone App is available.

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GradeMate Pro, SMS Reminders, Mail, Announcements and more!

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

It’s been about 2 months since our last update to GradeMate and we’re very excited to announce that we’ll be launching GradeMate Pro and a whole slew of new features tonight. While you can expect some downtime tonight as we upgrade the software, here is what’s new with this release:

    • GradeMate Pro
      There are now two types of GradeMate accounts: Free and Pro. Free accounts have a 3 course limit (only on created courses, not joined courses) and restrictions on the amount of file space you can have. For $50/$5 (teachers) or $20/$3 (students) yearly/monthly you can get unlimited courses, 1GB of file storage, access to new features early, and full support. We’ll be adding live chat to this support plan in the coming weeks.
      *All current users will get free GradeMate Pro accounts for life. This is our thank you for using GradeMate.
    • SMS Reminders
      Reminders can now be set up to be delivers to your mobile phone or email account. Just add your mobile number and carrier to your Account Settings.
    • GradeMate Mail
      You can now send mail messages directly to other users inside GradeMate. Navigate to the Mail tab and just start typing your teachers’ or students’ names.
    • Announcements
      For teachers. from the Mail page simply type in your course name and enter your message. When you click Send it will be delivered to each student in that course (or courses) and it will show up on their Dashboard as an Announcement.
    • “Add New” Button
      We’ve added an Add New button conveniently in the upper right hand corner of the application. Here you can quickly add courses, mail messages, or reminders.

      Not only that but we’re moving GradeMate to a brand new server at the Rackspace Cloud. We’ve noted much faster page load times and much fewer down time with this host.

      That’s all for now but thanks again for your continued support for GradeMate. These next couple days might see surprises or bugs crop up that we didn’t catch so we’d greatly appreciate any feedback or bug reports. Thanks again!

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      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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      GradeMate March update report

      Sunday, March 9th, 2008

      There hasn’t been many feature updates lately because we’ve been fast at work rebuilding the service from the ground-up. The new system running GradeMate (which will hopefully be up by the end of the month) will allow us to create new features and updates to the site amazingly fast. With that, we’ll be adding a feature request form to the site and maybe eventually a discussion forum. Bear with us for the next few weeks, we’re sure the new and improved GradeMate will be awesome.

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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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      GradeMate downtime

      Saturday, February 9th, 2008

      We experienced a little downtime last night and into this morning between 1am Feb 8th through about 2pm Feb 9th EST. We’re really sorry for any inconveniences this may have caused you. Our web host was moving the servers that GradeMate is hosted on last night, and it went a little longer than expected. We’ll keep you updated for any future downtimes.

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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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      GradeMate Blog Launched!

      Friday, November 30th, 2007

      The GradeMate product and development blog launched today! In addition to the help files and other resources we offer, we felt it was a good idea to keep you up to date on upcoming features, potential problems and issues, and general site announcements. Stay tuned for an update on what new features you can expect to see on GradeMate within the next couple weeks.

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