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Edline: A student’s best friend
San Mateo Daily Journal - June 1 , 2004
For most seniors, second semester schedules are padded with elective courses and free periods. The rewards of sleeping in late or leaving school early is one well deserved, and fine arts courses are generally looked on as more fun than work. With all of their mandatory units taken and out of the way, seniors are blessed with a cushy end to their high school careers.
Unfortunately, this is not the case for all high school seniors. With less than a week left of school, some seniors in the San Mateo Union High School District are struggling to reach the 220 credit graduation benchmark implemented by the district. As graduation night looms near, these seniors are stressing over whether they have the grades or the credits to walk across the stage and graduate with their fellow classmates. So what could have gotten them in such a precarious position? Maybe an unexpected illness, an outside commitment or the sudden onset of that ubiquitous disease known as “senioritis.”
My bet is that they didn’t use their Edline accounts as often as they should have. If they had, I bet they would be much better off now.
Edline: the greatest thing to hit schools since hot lunch. From what I’ve seen, this online system is a student’s best friend.
Edline is an online system in which teachers use electronic gradebook software to allow students to stay up-to-date on their class grades. [The teachers publish grades to Edline from their gradebook software.] Homework assignments also are updated on the site and teachers can post calendars as well. In addition to posting homework assignments, faculty members also can include links to Internet sites for class research.
Both parents and students can access the site. Students may check grades, get any assignments they may have missed, and even e-mail a teacher if they have questions on a particular homework assignment. Students and parents receive e-mail alerts from Edline informing them when new grades are posted.
In some instances, teachers are so efficient in their Edline updating, students know their test scores, project grades and homework points the same day they were due.
Edline is effective in a number of ways, particularly in that it strengthens the relationship between teachers and students, as well as teachers and parents.
In the past, parents were forced to wait for the six-week grading period report cards. Unless their student had kept them posted verbally, these bi-semester updates were all they had to go by. After six weeks, however, a failing grade is much harder to raise, and parents and students were frequently becoming panic stricken....
Parents, students and the teachers all seem pleased by how the online system has opened the door of communication between the teachers and their students.
Now, with Edline, parents and students can be constantly updated on their student grade and class standing. If a random “F” grade appears on the Web page, a quick click on the teacher’s e-mail link, also listed on the Edline web page, can lead to a resolution to the problem in short order.