AT-A-GLANCE Undated Class Record Book, 8-1/4" x 11", 10 Weeks, 35 Students, Black (8015005)

As a middle school teacher, I often find myself wanting to get the grades in order and quickly check student work before transferring the information into the computer. This record book has been great for letting me walk around the room to do "quick checks" on assignment completion with my students. As well, the cover is sturdy so it provides a good support for writing, unlike the paper cover bound record books I have used in the past.

I’m a college art professor. I don’t teach at a desk, behind a lectern, or podium. My environment is messy. Computers and electronics do not get along with dirty materials and dusty surfaces. My college has asked we all go paper free… but as stated before—- I don’t take attendance from a computer or tablet… and this At-A-Glance roster is so perfect for what I do. Perfect size, sturdy cover and paper, and it will last me a few years—-so worth it! I like the nuance that I cannot get by taking attendance and progress online… I can easily jot down notes immediately with any writing implement versus logging in with dirty fingers, and going through some awful multi- step process just to get where I need to go.Sorry to the techies… but paper is my old school thing and I love its tangible, nuanced approach to note taking, grading, attendance, and the fact that it’s the perfect affordable solution for my teaching environment.

I have taught at a mid-western university for 26 years. In those 26 years, I have always used the free gradebooks available from the department office. At the age of 51, last year, I thought I'd try the grading software. It was a miserable experience for me, even as computer literate as I am. I went back to the hard-copy version of gradebook this semester, but, as I filled out the names of my 60 students, I came to the realization that the lines are awfully small and hard to read--my 51 year old eyes, no doubt!I looked around and found only a few varieties of bound class record books, and this one happened to be the most expensive. After looking and looking, I broke down and bought two of these, thinking that two will last me the rest of my career--retiring in 2012.I LOVE this gradebook. It is such a high quality--nice cover, nice paper quality and good spiral-binding. The best part is the eye-friendly lines and line-shading, in shades of light and dark gray. No more GREEN! The size of the gradebook matches the size of the papers I collect on 8.5 x 11 paper, so, together, the papers and the gradebook makes a nice, carry-able package in my briefcase.What strikes me as best is the quality and the eye-friendly-ness. If you aren't using online grading software and your eyes are getting a bit presbyopic ("I beg your pardon! What did you call my eyes?") with advancing age, you might find these just the panacea for both problems.

This is just what I was looking for, and can't find in stores anymore. It's simple, easy to set up the way that I want, and seems durable enough to serve me for a while. Glad I purchased this!

I started teaching at a private liberal arts college a few years ago and immediately embraced the fancy, schmancy uber cutting-edge technology one might expect a well-funded school to have. Yes, it's nice to verify attendance and record grades from a tablet while sitting in the classroom or the parking lot, and it's nice to upload images and videos and other helpful resources and links to the class page throughout the semester. But.I'm in love with paper. And ink. I even force my students to keep reading journals and spend 15 minutes free-writing in class each week (BY HAND). At first they recoiled in horror. Now they line up to take my classes and I'm barraged with pleading emails at the start of each term beseeching me to allow just one more student to register (even though I am already four students over my max).This is not because I claim to be an amazing professor. It's because I love paper and ink and inhaling the essence of printed words on the page (especially a new book) and we talk about these things in class a lot. I bring my favorite books to class and pass them around and it's delightful to watch my students really look at the cover art, turn the pages, caress the spines, giggle/roll their eyes over some of my margin notes. They leave my class at the end of each semester having rediscovered the utter joy of holding a book.Oh. Yes. So I was talking about taking attendance and recording grades. I indeed do all of this online via my school's super-duper platform. I also record all of this by hand in my At-A-Glance Class Record Book. I don't have to be connected to the Internet to see who was in class last week, or who hasn't submitted a paper. I just pull this out of my book bag (yes, they still make those too) and turn the page.My class record book is a time machine -- I love to leaf back though previous semesters and remember the students and reflect on each unique class. I would never do this in an online environment and I cannot imagine anyone does. Also, that would probably alert the IT guys and it would look creepy, so there's that.So, when my current class grade book is filled, I will pop in onto my bookshelf. And then I will buy another.

I am not a calendar style teacher and I love the simplicity and size of this grade book. The perforated edges cut down on having to rewrite student names on every page.

This is the 3rd year in a row I have bought this grade book and I'll probably buy it again next year. I use it for keeping track of grades because I do a lot of grading on the go and this makes it easier to enter grades online because they are already in alphabetical order. Great value for the price.

This has been my favorite grade book I've found, no unnecessary pages in it at all