New improved Gradebook
Our main focus in the past three weeks at CourseDirector has been on improving our gradebook functionality, which we have given a huge overhaul. We feel we already have a simple to use and highly integrated LMS, but many of our customers wanted more advanced grading functionality so we responded.
We have now rolled out report card functionality, and the ability to calculate grades. We are conforming to US and international standards and will be rolling out further improvements on our weekly update cycle. Our aim is to get our gradebook so as even schools with complex grading needs don't feel any need to use a stand alone gradebook form the Google Apps Marketplace or elsewhere.
As always to our clients please email
aleh@cloudsourcesolutions.com with any changes to the functionality you require and we'll get straight back to you.
CourseDirector getting big adoption in International schools
Over the past month CourseDirector is becoming increasingly used in International Schools; schools following the IB, British or American systems. We are delighted to welcome many new schools this month including the International School of Nairobi in Kenya, the International Community School in London, American School of Bangkok and Marymount School Rome amongst others. We originally launched CourseDirector at the European Council of International Schools (ECIS) Conference in Frankfurt and its great to be making new friends and colleagues in this community
New CourseDirector features and coming soon
'Course discoverability' - allowing your students to 'self sign-up' to courses they are interested in from a course catalogue in CourseDirector is almost competed. Again it's important to stress this feature will be an option, so schools who wish to work the standard way with admins assigning students to courses will of course still work this way.
Google Workshop for Educators
We now have just four places left for the fantastic Google Workshop for Educators in Prague taking place on Saturday September 4th. The event is an official Google training course organised by CUE and covers all aspect of using Google products in Education. It is a great opportunity to network with other educators from across the world and really ramp up your knowledge of using Google in the classroom. Any questions or help needed with flights, accommodation or anything else please email me.
