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Grade Reports: Merging Excel and Word

On: May 1, 2009

I confess that I’ve never quite caught the course management system bug. I used Blackboard (Bb) years ago but since then I’ve found ways to accomplish my pedagogical goals without it. As my college makes the switch from Bb to Angel, I promise to take another look at moving some of my course into Angel. But until then… I still keep my grades in an Excel spreadsheet. After each exam I send my students grade reports by doing a mail merge in MS Word; it’s kind of like a mind meld for MS Office products. I used to print these grade reports and hand themRead More →

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