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Germantown to Use Online Grade Book; Parents of High School, Middle School Students Will Have Access

Posted on: Thursday, 15 September 2005, 15:00 CDT

Germantown The School District is launching an online grade book that will enable parents to track their students' grades on tests, quizzes and assignments 24 hours a day.

The district plans to send a letter today to parents explaining WebGrader and providing the user names and passwords they will need to access it over the Internet.

Twenty students at Germantown High School and 20 students at Kennedy Middle School tested the program last year. Now, it will be available to all students at the two schools.

In addition, WebGrader will be tested this year at Germantown's four elementary schools, with the goal of having the entire district on the system for the 2006-'07 school year.

"We believe this possibly could become the new report card," said Joe Totoraitis, the district's director of communications and technology.

For now, students will continue receiving paper report cards each quarter.

Used by 45 school districts

WebGrader was created in 1999 by Brian Sprinkman, whose wife, Jennifer, used to be a teacher at Pius XI High School in Milwaukee. He said the system is used by some 45 school districts in Wisconsin, including Brown Deer, Whitefish Bay, Franklin, Mukwonago, Merton and Belgium, plus the Milwaukee Catholic Archdiocese and about 15 schools in the Milwaukee Public Schools district.

WebGrader recently was bought by Collaborative Learning of Westmont, Ill., but Sprinkman still runs WebGrader from an office in Wauwatosa.

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General information about WebGrader is at www.webgrader.com.

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Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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