EXCEL gradebooks: an EXCELlent strategy for saving teacher time

Time ultimately is the most precious commodity across professions. In the teaching profession, educators put in pre-class development time, class contact time, and post-class grading and grade calculation time (as well as other administrative time). End-of-term grade calculation can be a massive, time-wasting headache. If teachers develop electronic spreadsheets that track attendance and use formulas to do the final calculations automatically as data is entered into the spreadsheets, then teachers can nearly eliminate end-of-term number crunching and use that time for other endeavors.