• Keep grades for as many as 16 subjects + behavior + attendance in one file?
• Keep as grades for as many as 40 standards in each of the 16 subjects?
• Differentiate between Subjects that are Academic (Reading or Math) and Effort Only (Art or PE) ?
• Calculate both Academic (A and B) and Effort (O and S) Grades for Academic Subjects?
• Calculate grades for each standards and allow indicators like Proficient and Basic as grades?
  
• Allow you to mix traditional grades (above) and standards-based grades in the same subject?
• Allow you to mark a Student "At Risk", by subject?
• Allow you to Enter scores by number correct or number wrong and compute the percentage?
• Have a Quick Entry system (one key per entry) ?
• Allow you to use rubric style scoring for standards-based assessment? (4, 3, 2, 1, etc.)
• Use Relational Weighing of scores for traditional grades?  (PGGP does not do Categories.)
  
• Provide for cooperative learning groups, allowing one entry to be distributed to the group?
• Calculate Study Skills?
• Calculate Behavior (Classroom and Playground) ?
• Calculate GPA?
• Keep track of attendance?
• Report all the above on  2" X 4" labels (allowing you to glue them in agendas or homework packs) ?
• Have adaptable grade formulas for Academic, Effort, Standards Based and Behavior grades?
• Allow you to write Letters in as many as four languages? (You write, PGGP does not translate)
  • Merge gender-appropriate pronouns in the letters?
  • Merge Grades in the letters?
  • Merge a Standards Based graph in the letter.
    
  • Merge a Summary of assignments in the letters by date and subject?
  • Merge behavior incidents in the letters?
• Include installers for Macintosh OS X (native- does not use Classic) and Windows 95 to Vista, sharing data between the two? 
• Have an Easy Setup?
• Make changing to a new quarter or new year as simple as selecting New in the File Menu?
• Require a tiny bit of disk space and computer memory to operate?
• Have the backing of a teacher who worked with elementary teachers and kids every day...
  • Who checks his e-mail twice daily? (Click and see how soon you get an answer.)
  • Who answers all questions personally?*
  • Who admits it if there is a problem and even makes it fun? (Fun With Problems)
  • Who can, if there is a problem, have a fix to you via the Internet (often in 24 hours) ?
• Post grades to the Internet?
• Print report cards via Report Card Time?
  

If you answered yes to the above questions, then congratulations, you must be using PGGP.

Sounds "Pretty Good", don't you think?

(...not to worry. Still no pie charts or histograms. Just grades, where you want them, when you want them.)

* How can one person keep up with all the tech support for PGGP?   Frankly, even though there are thousands and thousands of copies licensed, there isn't much tech support.   PGGP works.  Folks have asked for their money back 5 times since 1987.

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