MyGradeBook Celebrates 10 Years of Providing Teachers With Online Grade Access & Management, Launches Redesigned Site

More Than 36 Million Assignments Have Been Created, 880 Million Scores Reported With Online Gradebook for Teachers

Boston, MA (PRWEB) May 19, 2009 -- MyGradeBook, the popular online gradebook for teachers, has launched a major website redesign, featuring enhancements to make it an even more powerful classroom management tool. Teachers around the world have created more than 36 million assignments and recorded more than 880 million scores since the online grade management (http://www.mygradebook.com/online-grade-management.cfm) site launched a decade ago.

Redesigned to meet the evolving online needs of teachers, MyGradeBook now offers wider pages and faster, easier navigation. The new navigation tabs in the online gradebook appear when a mouse hovers over them, allowing teachers, parents and students to access any page on the site with a single click. The new online student seating chart (http://www.mygradebook.com/seating-chart-online.cfm) in MyGradeBook allows teachers to arrange the desks in their classroom creatively and upload photos of students to put names with faces quickly and easily.

"When we launched MyGradeBook in 1999, teachers were just beginning to have access to the Internet in their classrooms and to harness its power to support teaching and learning," said Jess M. Brallier, publisher, MyGradeBook. "Today it is an integral part of most teachers' daily lives, particularly for classroom management and communicating with parents. MyGradeBook has evolved right alongside teachers' use of online tools and will continue to be updated and refreshed to provide them with an effective, easy-to-use online teacher tool for managing grades, attendance and other administrative tasks."

Teachers use the online gradebook to score assignments, print out reports and email parents wherever they have a computer and an Internet connection, with the confidence that their data are secure and that they will have access 24 hours a day, seven days a week. MyGradeBook allows teachers to track student attendance online (http://www.mygradebook.com/student-attendance-online.cfm) as well as develop numerous reports on everything from student performance to overall class attendance. They can also use the online gradebook to create their own quizzes or take advantage of the site's library of thousands of online teacher-created quizzes (http://www.mygradebook.com/online-quizzes.cfm).

"The Central New York Regional Information Center has partnered with Family Education Network for more than five years to provide application and technical support for MyGradeBook.com to our component school districts, said Lori A. West, manager, Student Information Management Services, Onondaga-Cortland-Madison BOCES Central New York Regional Information Center. "Our districts love the features and ease of use they get with MyGradeBook.com, and it integrates easily with our student management systems."

Teachers can allow parents and students access to MyGradeBook to individually view grades and other information such as upcoming assignments, teacher comments and attendance. In addition, teachers can send an email from MyGradeBook to their entire class or to individual students and parents, as well as have the system automatically email parents when their children are late or miss class.

A free trial of MyGradeBook is available at https://www.mygradebook.com/secured/free-trial.cfm. Teachers can take advantage of the convenience and reliability of MyGradeBook for less than a dollar per week ($49.95 per year) with discounts for group accounts.

About MyGradeBook (MyGradebook.com):

MyGradeBook is part of Pearson, the world's largest integrated education company and publisher of Prentice Hall, Scott Foresman, Addison Wesley, Longman and other distinguished imprints. Pearson's other primary operations include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group.

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