Instructional Design:

Instructional Analysis
   

 

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Goal:  Use Gradekeeper software to manage an on-going computerized grade book. 

                  (Intellectual & Attitudinal Goal)

 

 1. Create class list.

1.1    In Gradekeeper, enter names of each student.

1.2  In Menu, select Show Names and IDs.

1.3  Enter ID numbers for each student.

1.4  Save file.

 

 

 

 

 2.  Set grade book preferences to match school grading policies.

2.1  In Gradebook Options, change each grading period's start & end dates to match the school calendar.

2.2  Change attendance codes to match the school's codes.

2.3  Change the percentages for each letter grade to match the school's grading policy.

 

 

 

 

3.  Establish categories of student work.

3.1  Form a mental list of the different types of student work.

3.2  Decide which categories of student work will be assigned this year.

3.3    Type in the chosen categories of work.

 

 

 

4.  Establish grade preferences.

            Will you weigh grades?  If “yes,” go through 4.1a, b, and c.  If “no,” go to 4.2.

            4.1a  Decide what categories of work will be weighted.

            4.1b  Decide how much each category will be weighted.

            4.1c  Change boxes to match decisions.

4.2    Select the grading tab and adjust the final exam percentage to match school policies.

            Will you drop the lowest score from any categories of work? If “yes,” do 4.3.  If “no,” go directly to 4.4.

4.3    Select the category or categories of work that will have the lowest score dropped.

4.4    Save file.

 

 

 

 

5. Enter grades.

5.1   Enter the name of the assignment.

5.2   Decide what category of work the assignment falls under.  Enter the category.

5.3   Enter the possible points for the assignment.

5.4   Fill the column with the students' scores.

Do you have more assignments to enter?  If “yes,” go back to 5.1.  If “no,” go on to 5.5.

5.5   Save file.

 

 

6. Generate grade reports.

           6.1  Print the grade book page.

           6.2  Under reports, select a Class Grades report and print.

           6.3  Under reports, select a Student Scores report and print.

           6.4  Under reports, select a Missing Assignments report and print.

 

7.  Continue on to next lesson: Exporting files to the web.

Skills      Color Key

This task is based almost entirely on intellectual skills.  While it contains psychomotor elements, like using a keyboard and mouse, it does not require the user to practice or to improve those skills.  Therefore, the psychomotor skills are subordinate to the learning which is intellectual.  There is only one area that require verbal skills, which is to list types of assignments. The final result is an attitude change of maintaining an on-going computerized grade book.

 

Green represents steps in the task.                               

Red represents a decision question.

Violet represents a visual subordinate skill.                   

Blue represents an intellectual subordinate skill.

 

 

 

 

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Last Update: July 4, 2005

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