The document discusses the benefits of implementing an online grading system for Saint Mary's Angels College of Valenzuela, which currently uses a manual grading process. An online system would lessen the workload on teachers and staff by automating grade recording and reporting. It would also allow students and parents to more easily monitor academic performance. Implementing such a system could make the grading process more accurate and reliable while providing more convenient access to grades.
The document discusses the benefits of implementing an online grading system for Saint Mary's Angels College of Valenzuela, which currently uses a manual grading process. An online system would lessen the workload on teachers and staff by automating grade recording and reporting. It would also allow students and parents to more easily monitor academic performance. Implementing such a system could make the grading process more accurate and reliable while providing more convenient access to grades.
The document discusses the benefits of implementing an online grading system for Saint Mary's Angels College of Valenzuela, which currently uses a manual grading process. An online system would lessen the workload on teachers and staff by automating grade recording and reporting. It would also allow students and parents to more easily monitor academic performance. Implementing such a system could make the grading process more accurate and reliable while providing more convenient access to grades.
The document discusses the benefits of implementing an online grading system for Saint Mary's Angels College of Valenzuela, which currently uses a manual grading process. An online system would lessen the workload on teachers and staff by automating grade recording and reporting. It would also allow students and parents to more easily monitor academic performance. Implementing such a system could make the grading process more accurate and reliable while providing more convenient access to grades.
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Introduction
A grading system is one of the most important procedures in a school
system. Manual grading system adds up workload to the teachers in order to provide accurate and fair assessment on the performance of the students. It is evident nowadays that the use of computer technology minimizes the inconvenience entailed in every tasks. More schools are now using an online grading system that can help save time on the tasks shouldered by the teachers. An online grading system is a system that allows faculty and school administrators to manage and distribute class grades online. Using this, teachers or faculty can easily provide the needed assessment of their students. This provides information about the performance of the students in every class and their grades. Online grading system has a lot of advantage than the normal manner of distributing grades. It provides more convenience to the students, faculty, school administrator and also parents. Students can easily see their grades and know the assessment of their performance in their class just with the use of internet. This also helps the teachers to reduce potential errors for compiling grades. Parents can easily have access to their child’s performance grade and students can no longer hide their failing grades. It enables the timely provision of final grades or academic report of the students to the related stakeholders.
Saint Mary’s Angels College of Valenzuela is a private school located at
Parada, Valenzuela City. It offers program from preschool to secondary level which now includes senior high school. They also provide computer class to the students and conducts some learning programs with the use of computers, such as mathscore. It was established 20 yrs ago and still using the manual process of computing, encoding, updating, recording and distributing grades of the students. The process requires more effort from the teachers and is more prone to errors especially in computing and recording the grades of a lot of students. A single mistake in computing and encoding data may require the repetition of the process if necessary. As the number of students in a class increases, the workload shouldered by the teachers also increases. It is also difficult for the students and parents to monitor the performance of their child since grades are only provided every end of the quarter.
Creating an online grading sytem for Saint Mary’s Angels College of
Valenzuela would make the process of computing and recording the grades of the students more accurate and reliable. This will also make the academic reports of the students more accessible by the students and their parents.
An online grading system will be very helpful to the school as a whole. It
will lessen the tasks of the registrar and faculty in encoding the grades of the students. It also enables the teachers to easily change the grades of the students in case of error in encoding it. It will also shorten the process of inquiring grades by the students and parents.
Statement of the Problem
General Problem:
Manual distribution and encoding of the student’s grades which troubles
the faculty and school administration due to the increase of the number of students enrolled in the school.
Specific Problem:
The manual distribution and encoding of student’s grades causes problem to
the:
Faculty- It demands extra effort from the teachers to go personally to the
registrar for the encoding of the grades and personally facing the students and parents for the distribution of grades. And also, errors made during the encoding of grades are not easily corrected.
School Administration- checking the accuracy of the grades of the students
by recomputation. Registrar- increases the task of the registrar in updating the academic records of the student.
Students- they cannot monitor their performance and class standing.
Parents- they also cannot monitor the grades of their schild.