GradingBox

GradingBox is a mobile application designed to aid teachers in the classrom. The app features participations, activity grading, attendance and reports in a quick and intuitive way.

GradingBox has been our pet project since 2016, when me and Marleni Reyes started working as full-time teachers at the University. 

The project was created on the idea of making simpler some tasks that where already developed for other instructions platforms, like Moodle and Blackboard. These task where primarily: taking attendance, keeping track of participations and grading activities through rubrics, while giving full transparency to students in easy to read reports.

The result was a mobile app that uses a web service to retrieve and store the data of courses and students. The application is available for Android and in a very lightweight presentation that allows teachers with low-end smartphones to access it. The tool includes modules for the selected tasks. It is stable and has offline capabilities.

Sample course with students

List of courses

After a few years of testing it as a close beta, we are close to a formal release. Unfortunately, the time that it requires to be completed is more than we can spear from our daily academic activities.

The web part that connects the students with their record is acceded through: 

https://gradingbox.com/