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FreshGrade Classic
Pros: Teachers can customize assignments, document student learning, and share day-to-day information instantly with parents and students.
Cons: Lacks some tools for creation and accessibility, like drawing tools and text-to-speech.
Bottom Line: Multimedia documentation tools and a customizable grade book help communicate learning and expand both summative and formative assessment.
Even if teachers are required to use a specific learning management system or grade book, the FreshGrade Classic dashboard and reporting tools could help create a more comprehensive view of student achievement. Teachers can use FreshGrade to keep track of grades, monitor student progress and mastery of concepts, document daily classroom activities, and communicate with students and parents. Assigning activities that spark student curiosity and give meaningful feedback encourages growth and self-reflection. Plus, different types of assessment increase the chances that students will view learning as a work in progress rather than doing something simply to get a good grade. It's also a great way to keep channels of parent communication open. Snapshots of daily work coupled with the ability to see progress over time give parents a more comprehensive picture of their child's learning.
FreshGrade Classic is an app- and web-based portfolio platform that helps teachers and students easily capture, document, and communicate student learning. A combination of a grading program, a portfolio site, and a learning management system (LMS), it enables educators to create standards-based assignments, monitor student progress, and provide feedback or grades. Teachers can choose from a variety of assessment tools, including effort, learning progression, mastery, anecdotal notes, and conventional grades. While working on the activities, teachers and students can use their mobile device to capture photos, video, audio recordings, and other notes. This data can be linked to individual students, groups, or the entire class. Students can review the teacher-collected data and comment on it, and they can assemble the information into a digital portfolio to document learning.
It can also generate progress reports or summary reports, and teachers have access to extensive data via the dashboard. Teachers can use push notifications to share information with parents and students, and classroom announcements can also be pushed out to families. Parents can view their own child's portfolio and leave comments. Separate versions of the mobile app are available to serve teachers, parents, and students. The tool's developers heavily promote its ease of use, and it's definitely highly usable for teachers; students may struggle a bit, but with some coaching, they'll get the hang of it.
FreshGrade Classic enables teachers to easily assess student learning and provide instant feedback. Students almost always benefit when offered the opportunity to get timely feedback and reflect on it. Students, teachers, and parents can enter into meaningful dialogue based on photos, video, and audio, and teachers can work with students to curate and add their own work to the portfolios. Selecting pieces to add to their portfolios and reflecting on these pieces can help improve self-evaluations. These student-created portfolios provide a sound basis for student-led conferences; they also help students set goals and track progress.
The student experience would benefit from more built-in tools for creation, such as voice recordings, drawing capabilities, and perhaps a text-to-speech feature for developing readers or students who have a visual impairment. For teachers already required to use a grading platform or more robust LMS, it may create more work and duplicate efforts teachers are already putting in elsewhere. Still, this is a great way to visually capture, monitor, and share student progress.
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Are teachers shrugging responsibility to parents with freshgrade
When looking at the freshgrade 'parents' portal or examples it would appear that the school / teachers are expecting parents to spend a couple of hours a night teaching children on subjects for assignments they are having problem with. My expectation is that children are taught at school. They don't need to be going to school and coming home and do another 2 hours of teaching with parents, whom by the way are not teachers.
Could freshgrade be a scapegoat for schools and teachers and put the ownership on parents. If this is the case, why do we have teachers?
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