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Gradeworks is a free, web-based tool for teachers that promotes communication between parents, teachers and students by giving the families easy access to grades, assignments, schedules and class activities in a secure environment that's available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

"School Maestro III is a comprehensive teacher productivity tool. The included grading program is the most advanced program available and supports a wide variety of different grading methods. It also tracks attendance and discipline, does seating charts, allows subjective grades, creates reusable lesson plans, report cards, honor rolls, GPAs, and transcripts. Reports are available via the Internet and form letters with optional report attachments may be emailed. "

From simple calculator operations to large-scale programming and interactive document preparation, Mathematica is the tool of choice at the frontiers of scientific research, in engineering analysis and modeling, in technical education from high school to graduate school, and wherever quantitative methods are used. Whether you need a sophisticated calculator or an integrated technical programming environment, Mathematica provides you with a complete solution. You can perform a single task - like analyzing data or solving a tricky differential equation - or develop an entire solution, prototype, or application.

Splashup, formerly Fauxto, is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With the features professionals use and novices want, it's easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once. Splashup runs in all browsers, integrates seamlessly with top photo-sharing sites, and even has its own file format so you can save your work in progress.

Students submit their work as email attachments or word-processor documents, and teachers need to be able to mark and return these documents as quickly and easily as they can mark work submitted on paper. Markin is the latest in marking and annotation software for on-line and electronic teaching environments. It can import text material from the clipboard, or from an RTF or text file, and provides all the tools you need to mark and annotate this text. When you have finished, you can export the marked text as an RTF file for loading into a word-processor, or as a web page so that your students can view the marked text in a web browser - and you can email this file directly back to the student, all without leaving the Markin program.

Maybe this is useful tool for some of our students?