Standards-Based Grading  

After downloading the copy, you will find a single installer file. PGGP is no memory hog, so it will take very little space on your hard drive.

• The Windows installer is called Install_PGGP_5.0.EXE and will create a PGGP folder in the Program Files folder. It will install all files there. PGGP 5 requires Windows 95 or better.
• The Mac installer is called PGGP_5.0_Installer.dmg. When mounted it will create a folder in Applications called Pretty Good Grading Program. It installs files there.
  

The Download Mac 5.0  PGGP will not run on OS 10.7

Download Windows 5.0 (1810K)  (Download In About 12 Minutes At dail up 28.8)  Note:  Some are getting the message Corrupt Installer. This is not a very helpful message (but what Windows error message is helpful?), as it ususally means that you don't have administrative privileges for the install.  The message is sometimes inconsistant as one school reported getting the message on 2 of 6 computers.  I have also had users say that after several tries, they are suddenly able to install.  If you are using Internet Explorer you may be asked if you want to Run or Save the file.   Try Run to see if this relieves the problem.  Feel free to write if you can lend any light on this issue.   I apologize for this.   I have been using the same installer creator since about 1994 and this is a mostly XP problem. 
  Fix List

Date	Description of the Fix
10/23/12	PGGP Report Card upload was tweaked.
07/11	The letter omitted some of the standard titles when including a Standards chart in the letter.  The standard chart always had a range of five descriptors rather than the number of performance indicators the user selected in the Rubric Formula.  Fixed.
10/11/08	Mac was storing files in the application folder.   This was actually a preferences file that installes with PGGP rather than PGGP.  If you suddenly cannot find your grade book files don't panic... they are there.   Contact George.
08/26/08	Mac- Import Class List glitch fixed
04/28/08	Windows- Problem with Insert and Delete Assignments when standards are attached to assignments.
09/12/07	Windows Summary window insisted on switching to Print This Subject when printing the summary or letter.
08/24/07	Mac was skipping letters when printing All Letters
08/12/07	Windows-  New tact... made new provisions to stop the annoying range errors that appeared at the oddest times.
8/5/07	Windows Row Grade Sheet was not printing correctly
05/04/07	Windows installer rebuilt.  There was a possibility of a range error showing up in the attendance area.
05/01/07	Windows installer rebuilt.  This was to add safety to the Rubric Entry.   A warning is now issued if the user changes the number of points mid stream.
03/20/07- 04/09/07	Major work on Mac and Windows to create a new preference, Latest Standard.   This allows the teacher to have PGGP look at only the last assessment of any standard.   Thus, with this setting, there is no averaging of each actual standard.   A subject that contains several different standards still averages those standards for the subject grade.
04/09/07	Mac Letter-  If <<Standards>> was the last text in a letter, what ever happened to be on the clipboard from the users last Copy or Cut was printed after the standards graph.
04/07/07	Windows Print Grades was repaired so an extra page would not be printed after the report.  Windows Print Grades report was cosmetically fixed.
03/29/07	Windows installer rebuilt.  No real changes, but there was a report of an extra page being printed before All Grades.
03/08/07	There was some nonsense with Number Correct and Number Wrong in Windows.   Not sure what it was about, but clicking back to the Grade Entry gave some pretty peculiar numbers.   Windows seems to have been making a small mistake (in favor of students) on some Correct and Wrong calculations.   I am not sure this was ever a version that went to users, but some of my test files from September '06 displayed the error.
02/27/07	The export to a database did not include standards grades.
02/02/07	Windows was displaying a "Not a valid integer" error when printing the letter if you had no behavior grades.   This buglet has been fixed.
12/15/06	The Standards Report has been added to the letter.   A new button in the editor will place the graphic report in the letter
11/09/06	Both Mac and Windows have a file structure upgrade. This improves the Mac-Win file exchange and adds decimals in the GPA/ Both Mac and Windows should now print possible points for Rubric Scoring when printing the grade book.
10/21/06	Both Mac and Windows were skewing existing standards attached to assignments after a standard was deleted. They were also annoyingly changing the standard for the assignment when standards were edited.
10/03/06	Windows was not importing standards correctly if the file had a SubStrand in the set of standards. This seemed to only happen with CA Social Studies files.
9/28/06	Mac. A repair of the Standards Graph has been made. The graph was shooting outside the box for some formulas.
09/12/06	Mac and Win: Clicking the new Sort by Rubric button forced the user to click the up or down button a number of times, through blanks, before getting to the performance indicators (because there are usually fewer of them).
09/11/06	Mac and Win were not printing All Letters when all subjects had only standards grades. I have fixed this, and have changed the Letter dialog window.
09/04/06	Mac & Win The auto formula was just wonky. The computers did not agree on their math and at times even gave strange sequences of numbers. For instance, if you had 7 or 8 performance indicators you could get something like: 8,7,6,4,4,3,2,1 which is not really very helpful. If you went to the 100 point, you saw some real weird stuff on Mac, starting with 101.
09/04/06	Added 12th slot to Win Rubric Formula
08/30/06	Mac & Win When assigning students to groups in a Rubric Entry column the groups were not being added. In Mac the group number was being assigned as a grade.
08/28/06	Win- Added select student to Standards Report
08/26/06	Mac- Demo time storage ran out of space causing Win demos to think Mac demo files were out of time.
08/21/06	Win- Standards Analysis was not accurate
08/21/06	Mac- Standards Analysis was not printing all subjects every time, depending on what subjects had been opened.
08/19/06	Win Demo- Added "About PGGP" to the demo help menu so users can see the build date.
08/19/06	Win- Oops. Left some x's in the summary report used as formatting padding.
08/18/06	Win- After the Student Summary, the grade grid acted like a traditional grade grid
08/18/06	Win- Summary could show a blank grade for a Rubric Score of 1 when the number of points was higher than the number of items in the rubric grading scale.
08/16/06	Win- letter upgrade
08/14/06	Win- Put boxes around Grades in Rows
08/14/06	Mac was not including a standards only subject in the letter.
08/14/06	Mac was not printing Effort grades along with Standards grades in Grades in Rows Report
08/12/06	Mac- as a result of the above, Mac wasn't reading standards at all!
08/10/06	Mac was not reading very old (4.0 and 3.5) files. 3.5 Files are still in question.
08/07/06	Win was rounding a score of 1 to 0 in rubrics with high points
08/07/06	Mac did not hold the rubric points set in the Assignment Screen
08/06/06	Added a warning that keeps user from trying to import standards before subjects have been defined
08/06/06	Added a warning for importing standards when standards are already attached to assessments
08/06/06	Mac was not reading the last standard in the standards import

 

 

 

 

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