Published Reviews of Grade Machine®

Grade Machine has won numerous prestigious awards! The following excerpts from national magazines, newspaper articles, and leading software industry trade journals clearly illustrate Grade Machine's unique and valuable features.

"...we prefer Grade Machine, because its interface is a little cleaner. Grade Machine also gets a nod for its networking capabilities, (and) optional Classroom Attendance module with seating chart..."

Please see below for excerpts from additional Macworld articles.

Technology & Learning 1991-92 Software Awards - October 1991, (Page 36)

"Version 4.0 of this Macintosh gradebook program is very flexible and easy to use. With help from the sample class file provided with the package and the tutorial in the manual, it is a breeze to get up and running."

"Grade Machine gives users a vast number of grading choices...It's possible to print out a variety of individual reports to be sent home to parents. "

Media & Methods Awards Portfolio 1991 - May/June 1991, (Page 64)

"Strengths: Very user-friendly, comprehensive and flexible for a variety of situations."

"Overall Evaluation: This is a very useful and powerful program for any teacher needing gradebook software. Meets the needs of virtually all teachers."

Media & Methods Awards Portfolio 1996 - May/June 1996

Grade Machine has again won the MEDIA & METHODS Award for 1996.

Windows K-12 Classroom Resource Product Spotlight - March 1996, (Page 16)

"Misty City's Grade Machine has long enjoyed a reputation as an accessible, easy-to-use computer gradebook program for Macintosh and DOS settings. The program is now available in a Windows-compatible version... "

CUE Newsletter Software Reviews - September/October 1995, (Page 25)

"...one will be greatly rewarded by the Grade Machine gradebook program."

Teaching for Success "Technology Makes Grading A Chore No More" - August, 1995, (Page 6)

"One of the more feature-laden commercial programs available, Grade Machine is sold and supported by Misty City Software of Kirkland, WA."

"With Grade Machine you can easily provide your students with periodic reports and graphs to help them track and improve their performance."

The Adjunct Advocate Software Review - May/June 1995, (Page 26)

"Having examined over the years many different grading programs...we gladly accepted the challenge of reviewing both the IBM and Mac versions of Grade Machine, and are delighted to report that Misty City's promotional slogan is accurate: This is, indeed, a "better way to keep your gradebook!" The ease of performing the required task in both versions, the clarity of the manuals,...makes this product one tool educators will not want to do without."

"So strongly is Misty City Software committed to technical support of its products that a particularly nice feature is the ability to communicate with the company - in addition to telephone and snail mail - via the various on-line services."

"As to the tasks themselves, these are made even simpler by not having to initially read the entire manual."

"In sum, we heartily endorse Grade Machine for both IBM and Mac users to further simplify the time-consuming and necessary grading tasks, thus freeing us up for our primary responsibilities of teaching, research, and writing."

Electronic Learning Buyer's Guide: "Gradebooks, the Next Generation" - September 1994, (Page 54)

"Extremely easy to learn to use. "

Electronic Learning Special Edition Survey: Favorite Productivity Programs - April 1993, (Page 7)

"An Electronic Learning survey of technology-using teachers at the Florida Educational Technology Conference (FETC) in Tampa in February revealed that gradebook and attendance programs rank with desktop publishing programs and banner-makers as teacher-favorites. The FETC top 10 were Grade Machine, ... "

Macworld Star Rating Section - (Appeared throughout 1993)

"Teachers' lives get easier with this software that quickly sets up a useful electronic grade book. (The) Program includes networking capabilities plus dozens of options for printing reports."

Electronic Learning "Software at a Glance" - October 1991, (Page 35)

"Grade Machine is an easy-to-use, feature-packed grade management tool."

"Entering grades has never been easier."

"Once teachers try Misty City's Grade Machine, they'll throw their paper gradebook away."

Macworld Window Shopping - September 1990, (Page 287)

"...if you want a more powerful tool for computing and storing students' grades, there's Grade Machine."

"Grade Machine makes grading and attendance record keeping relatively painless..."

"If...your heaviest responsibility is grading tests and tallying averages, Grade Machine is your best bet."

The Adjunct Mentor "Grading the Easy Way" - August 1990, (Page 6)

"The Pentronics staff reviewed both the Macintosh and the IBM versions of this program. Overall we were impressed with the ease of use of the program and the quality of the manuals included with this software. Within an hour, on both types of computers, we had installed the program and completed the tutorial sections of the manual. This program, based on a spreadsheet design, worked very smoothly on both computers."

"After considering this program's features, price and documentation, we recommend its use no matter which computing environment you prefer."

The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA) "User Friendly" - October 6, 1992, (Page D2)

"Grade Machine...gets the job done and done right. Anyone who teaches can benefit from its ability to track assignments and student performance... "

"Eventually all grading will be done this way; for now, Grade Machine gets an A+ for leading the way."

The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS) "Bits & Bytes" - September 5, 1994, page 5B

"The premise of this software (which is based on a spreadsheet format) is to duplicate the feel of the traditional grade book to avoid intimidation of the novice but allow room to grow as the user's knowledge and comfort-level expand."

"Of the three electronic grade books I've tested, Misty City's Grade Machine offers the most features, the best documentation and the most effective interface. If you are a teacher who's looking to spend more time teaching and less time processing grades, Grade Machine is a program you should buy."