Pilot program

Haiku - starts this week

All physics and Economic students will be sent a code to register for Haiku through their email.  If they do not have an email it can be sent through their parent's email.  There can be only one person to an email.   Parents will also be able to have a code if they choose, but with a different email address than the student. 

ALL written assignments will be turned in through a drop box in the program.   Worksheets and projects will still be turned in at class.    Most of the tests will be taken online. 

Benefits of the program:

Eliminate alot of PAPER usage, including "lost" assignments that the students "have not kept in a file."  

Eliminate scribbled, barely readable, hand written work.  (This is high school!)

Makes it easier for graders to grade.  They will go to the drop box, grade the paper, and the grade automatically goes into a gradebook.

Students can see their progress and assignments at the same place.

We will try it through the end of the year to determine what we want to use next year.   We will continue to put grades into gradebookwizard as well.   However, Haiku or a program like it, may combine what we do on the blogs as well as gradebook, with the bonus of auto grading capability.