Review on ExAGs by Benaiah A. Akinlade

FOR TEACHERS

Teachers have been saddled with an enormous responsibility of tutoring and managing students throughout the academic session all year round. There is hardly a time for teacher to rest or find it easy during the school academic calendar.

This software is designed in a way to ease the stress teachers go through in grading students both in academic performances, and non academic exploits.

Some of these duties include:

1. Teaching during the session

2. Setting mid term and end of term examinations

3. Marking and grading of the exam scripts

4. Recording of the grades (finding cumulative, averages, positions, recording of student attendance, rating affective, psychomotor, and spiritual domains, commenting on individual student performances, signing and stamping report sheets by the head of school).

These activities and many more without any doubt places a huge amount of pressure on teachers to meet sometimes unrealistic deadline. We mustn't forget that teachers are humans too that have feelings and responsibilities outside the school.

FOR SCHOOL OWNERS

School owners always look for a way to have an edge in the tight battle for supremacy in the educational sector. They unrelentingly look for better ways to provide services that are already in existence in a better way than their fellow school owners in order to divert the traffic of parent subscribers who are consistently looking for the best education for their children.

The pressure is how best to deliver what is already being delivered by fellow competitors to attract more clients. The school report sheet is one of the very best ways to entice a sponsor to patronize a school. This is why many schools spend millions of money on a well designed, neatly prepared and easily disseminated report sheet. Most school owners quickly adopt the frenzy of the web based result grading system due to the fact that it can be accessed from anywhere in the world. This is in fact the best selling point until the following problems come up

1. Paying for renewal of the hosting rights to the website

2. Crashing of the website due to overload and network traffic

3. Website not accessible due to poor network

4. Loss of website data due to crash

Most school owners do not put these factor into consideration before they subscribe to an online grading platform. So when these problems occur, they immediately abandon the project and most likely revert to manual grading on the outdated report sheet with pen and paper which also come with the following problems

1. Not easily digitalized for perusal by international bodies that might need the report to be sent to them abroad

2. Paper wears and ink fades out over time

3. Paper reports can be easily destroyed by rodents and other paper (wood) loving bugs

Why ExAGs?

ExAGs is an offline grading system that packs the facility of publishing reports OTA (Over The Air). The system is borne out of the need to ease the stress teachers and school owners go through to provide the best grading system and beautifully designed report sheet to attract more clients to the school.

The project is a result the experiences gathered in my seventeen (17) years in the Information Technology industry, eight (8) years in the education industry and three (3) years of rigorous research into how to best put out a solution that is effective for teachers and quite affordable on the long run for school owners.

The program is designed to automate 90% of the grading responsibilities of teachers such as

1. automated addition

2. automated average (both subject average and class average)

3. automated subject positioning

4. automated school logo attachment

5. automated school stamp attachment (optional)

6. clickable affective, psychomotor, and spirituality ratings

7. automated comments on results (both class teacher and head teacher) based on performance

8. automated promotion to next class based on performance

9. automated student school presence and absence calculations

10. preview report sheet before publishing

11. converting and publishing report sheet to pdf

12. sending report to parents email address through ExAGs

13. connect to the internet to enable you have access to news platforms, sports and your the organization's email address.

The program is designed with the motive of a computer system per class since the package is offline so that class teachers will have a computer assigned to their class for the purpose of class management. This equally poses a huge requirement on the class teacher and subject teacher to have the basic computer navigation skills.

You will find in this video how easy it is to navigate the product. It has been certified by independent testers (teachers and head of schools) that using ExAGs reduces their work load by 80% and increases their efficiency by 95%.