Hey Bloggers!

Today we dove deeper into what FreshGrade provides for teachers, we found 5 major headings on their website and explained how they work.

What does fresh grade offer to teachers?
Fresh grade offers lesson, activity and blog customization; organize student work; assess student progress; connect and communicate with families, students and fellow staff and professional development.

How does FreshGrade allow for customization?
They allow teachers to make an unlimited number of classes and groups within those classes. Additionally they offer tools that allow you to tailor to your students. Tools to assist in lesson planning and assignment making and scheduling.

How does FreshGrade organize student work?
FreshGrade offers digital portfolios for every student and learning journals. This makes capturing student learning simple and easily accessible. They also allow teachers to label, sort, and filter students portfolios. Having this tool will ensure that each student has proper organizational skills and has easy access to each of their assignments.

How does FreshGrade allow teachers to assess growth?
FreshGrade has a gradebooking system that has the option between standards-based, score-based or anecdotal. They provide opportunities for formative, summative and interim assessments while supporting custom assessment scales. This is great as each classroom in a school can make the gradebook system work for them.

How does FreshGrade connect parents, students and staff?
Fresh grade supports communication between parents, students and staff by offering conversation toolsets while also offering outlets to send messages or share announcements to individuals or groups.

See you next week!

Nat and LOBO

All information retrieved from FreshGrade
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