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Let's say you end up teaching EFL where you have access to the internet but no online academic site like BlackBoard to use for grading. Or, maybe you just don't like BlackBoard all that much. Engrade is an incredibly useful website in that it serves as an online gradebook for tracking academic performance and attendance. I found out about the site from a fellow GA at NAU whose department had decided that Engrade was simply easier to use than BlackBoard. While you can't upload all the content--readings and such--as you can on BlackBoard, at least as far as I can tell, Engrade does allow you to upload rubrics and word lists for flash cards. It also has a system for warning students similar to the GPS system at NAU. Yet another great feature is that if you're ever required to turn in hard copies of your gradebook or your attendance, you can easily export that information. Engrade is also FERPA compliant for those of you teaching in the US. I used it at NAU last semester, and it worked like a charm. I can't recommend it enough.

Alan, I'm glad you posted this. I piloted the use of this program along with a couple of other EFL teachers when I was in China. We ended up using it during the entire year I was teaching there. It has been a while since I used it, but I remember it being fairly user friendly. It also allowed for the sharing of reports with students. It would be interesting to see what upgrades they have made to it since then, as that was about four years ago. I would second your recommendation.