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Chapter 1. Getting Started With MarkBook

1-1 Installing MarkBook

1-2 The Sample Classes

1-3 Creating Your First Class

1-4 Installing MarkBook CNX

Chapter 2. Working With Existing Classes

2-1 Opening/Retrieving a Class Folder

2-2 Naming & Editing Your Class Description, Categories, and Strands

2-3 Moving Classes, Attendance Codes, and Marks onto a PDA handheld

Chapter 3. Main Operating Screen

3-1 The Main Operating Screen

3-2 Backing Up Your Data

3-3 Anecdotal Notes Tool

3-4

Chapter 4. Entering & Editing Student Personal Data

4-1 Adding & Deleting Students

4-2 Edit Student Information

4-3 Creating Mark Sets

4-4 Importing Students

4-5 Selecting & Importing

4-6 MarkBook's Ideal Import File

4-7 Specific Exports for MarkBook

SRB Trillium

SAS

Windsor by HARTS

4-8 Updating Classes From an Import File

Chapter 5. Printing Class Management Forms

5-1 Setting Up Mark Record and Class List Forms

5-2 Printout of a Sample Mark Record Form

5-3 Printout of a Sample Class List

5-4 Setting up the Seating Plan

5-5 Printout of Sample Seating Plan Samples

5-6 Setting up the Text & Other Loaned Item Form

5-7 Printout of a Sample Text Issue Form

Chapter 6. Attendance Functions and Analysis

6-1 Setting Up the Attendance Forms

6-2 The Attendance Grid

6-3 Enter Attendance From the Seating Plan

6-4 Printout of the Monthly Attendance Form

6-5 Printout of a Multi-month Attendance Summary

6-6 Bar-coded Attendance

Chapter 7. Manipulating Marks/Grades including Weighting

7-1 Setting Up the Calculation Parameters

7-2 New Assessment Description

7-3 New Assessment

7-4 Entering Marks/Grades

7-5 Updating or Changing Marks

7-6 Weighting Marks and Categories

7-7 Single Assessment Entry Analysis

7-8 Assessment Analysis Printout

7-9 Drop-The-Low

7-10 Collecting Assessment Entries Using MarkBook CNX

Chapter 8. Class Reports and Analysis

8-1 Summary Class Reports

8-2 Combined Class Reports

8-3 Class Marks in a Grid / Spreadsheet Format

8-4 Student Marks in Categories

8-5 A Distribution Bar Graph of Class Marks

8-6 Setting Up Various Class Report Printouts

8-7 Printout of a Code Name Class Report

8-8 Printout of a Real Name Class Report

8-9 Modal or "Most Consistent Analysis"

8-10 MarkBook's HTML Class Report Generator

Chapter 9. Individual Student Reports and Analysis

9-1 Creating An On-Screen Summary For An Individual Student

9-2 Category/Strand Bar Graph Summary

9-3 Creating MarkBook's Trend Graph

9-4 Individual Modal Analysis

9-5 Setting Up MarkBook's Student Report Card

9-6 Sample Printouts of MarkBook's Subject Report Cards

9-7 Sample Printout of MarkBook's Combined Subject Report Card

Chapter 10. Report Comments

10-1 Comments Banks

10-2 Partial Printout of A Comment Bank

10-3 Selecting/Creating Comments

10-4 The Comment Bank Editor

10-5 Scratch Pad, Copy To & Flood Fill

10-6 Creating and Comparing Multiple Sets of Comments

10-7 Electronic Report Cards

10-8 Transfer Data and Comments

Chapter 11. Electronic Export File Generation

11-1 Exporting A Delimited List of Names and Other Selected Data

11-2 Exporting MarkBook Summary Data

SAS

11-3 Exporting to MarkBook Admin Edition

Chapter 12. File Management

12-1 File Management

12-2 File Management for School Administrators

Appendix A. Introduction to Assessment and Evaluation

Appendix A-1 The Assessment & Evaluation Processes

Appendix A-2 Meeting Your Education System's Requirements

Appendix A-3 Category/Strand Models for Organizing Assessment Data

Appendix A-4 Grade Calculation Algorithms

Appendix A-5 Why Use Class Management Software?

Appendix B. FinePrint

Appendix B-1 Installing FinePrint

Appendix B-2 Using FinePrint

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