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About G&A

01.gif (23496 bytes)The Grades and Attendance Workbook computes the attendance and the grades that you enter for one child. Excel G&A was designed for homeschoolers who want to keep up with grades and attendance

Microsoft Excel

I made the G&A files with Microsoft Excel 2002. The files are fully compatible with MS Excel.

OpenOffice

OpenOffice, a free office software that can be downloaded from openoffice.org, will work with the Grades and Attendance files with the exception that in the points version it does not calculate grades when they are entered as fractions. I recommend that if you use OpenOffice, use Grades and Attendance: Whole Number or 48.

Numbers

commentMichelle in TN commented about using G&A with Mac's Numbers.

importantNumbers 09 seems to break the G&A files. Two issues - calendar dates dissapear and important formatting is stripped. If after converting the XLS file to Numbers, the file is all white and the calendar dates do not show, don't use the file, it's broken.

Donna Young
November 10, 2009

G&A Versions

I have several versions of G&A.
I have two versions called Points and Whole Number.

Points and Whole Number simply indicates the form of number that grades are when added. In order to understand what that means, I will explain each one below.

Points [help file] [download page]

Enter grades as a fraction, decimal, and percentage such as 33/35, 0.9, and 90%.

Whole Number [help file] [download page]

Enter grades with numbers such as 87, 91.3, and 100.

48 Beta [download page]

48 is another whole number version. It is designed for those who need a lot of room for grades, school year-round, and do not need to weigh grades.

Copyright:
The Grades and Attendance Workbook is "as is", free for personal use, and copyrighted. The Grades and Attendance Workbook may not be distributed in any way without permission from Donna Young. You have permission to use the grade book for your students and you may make a copy of the grade book for each student. You may make back-up copies of your student's grade books. This grade book is only available from this web site and from the author's cd-rom. Should you see it available from any other source, please report to the author via feedback form.