If you're asking the more basic question of how do you make your gradebook
data available for publishing on the world wide web, then I'll try to go
through the basic steps now!

First some preliminaries:
1 You must be using version 9.0 or later of Making the Grade.
2 You need to know how to setup your own home page (at least the basics)
3 You need to know how to move the files we create on your computer to your
web site.
4 Please make sure your viewers are using a recent web browser; Netscape 4.5
or Internet Explorer 4.5 or later.

If you need help with the preliminaries, please contact your technical
support people.

Creating web pages from Making the Grade involves the following steps:
1 Create PINs (personal identification numbers) for all of the students in the courses you wish to publish on the net.  We define the PIN (Personal Id Number) as digits only. We don’t support letters.
2 Create the web pages.
3 Move the web pages to your web site.
4 Let everyone know the net address of your grading home page.

You need to create PINs for all of your students by using the Special menu option: GENERATE student PINs ...  You then need to let each student know what his or her student number and PIN number are for accessing their web based reports.  We recommend that you DON'T use roster position numbers as your student numbering system.  We have some difficulties within the program when you use that student numbering system.  If you wish to simply number your students 1 through N, then change the student numbering system to "Your Own Numbers" and sequentially number your students.  By doing this, you keep students from having different roster numbers if you decide to resort your students during the year!  You may use any of the 10 custom fields in the student roster but that field must be titled PIN.

You create the web pages by selecting 'Export student data' from the File
menu and choosing "The WEB ePUBLISHER: GROUPED homepage documents."  You
then will select options of what information to include in the student
reports.  You can create the web pages for all of your classes in one run by simply including you other classes when the program asks you for additional files.  Please save the classes.htm file to a new, empty folder or directory.  The program will build .htm files for all of your students in all of the classes you selected.  It also creates a pincheck.jar file which must be kept with these .htm files for your grading web site to work correctly.

You now need to copy ALL of the files just created to your web site.  Please create a folder or directory on your web site to store the files created by Making the Grade.  You now need to modify your home page to refer to the classes.htm file in the subdirectory so students can proceed to see their grades.  

Please don't ask us how to do this for you!  There are too many different methods to creating home pages for us to be able to help you edit your page.  You alternately could provide the address of the classes.htm file directly to your students and parents and there they will see a list of courses and places to enter the student IDs and pin numbers to see their progress reports using their web browser.

There is a sample at,   http://home.earthlink.net/~prjahelka/classes.htm

When you update your web page, please be sure to first delete the original files from your web site, then transfer the new set of files Making the Grade created to your web site.  To keep the job easy of updating your grades, we suggest you keep all of your Making the Grade web files in a separate directory on your web site so that you won't inadvertently delete other files which you may be using for your web site.

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Problems?

Older browsers or those without Java enabled won't display the page correctly.  The other possibility is the browser may need to have its security settings set to medium to allow Java applets to run.

Can't enter numbers?

Somehow, the program thinks you are using roster position numbers.  Please open each of your class files and choose Edit -> Setup Info -> Class Information -> Student Numbers and change the class from roster position to your numbers.  

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It doesn’t work as a web site.  You can share files, even html files, but the folder doesn’t act like a web server.


The easiest way to post grades to the Web is to us Edline.  Check it out at Edline.com on the www.

Herb