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VAR Grade
Vendor Documentation
written by DENNIS REVIE
Version 4.6
May 1991
VAR Grade is COPYRIGHTED (C) 1991 by Dennis Revie.
All rights are reserved.
VAR Grade can be distributed as SHAREWARE. It is not free.
Anyone distributing VAR Grade for any kind of remuneration
must first contact us at the address below for authorization.
This authorization will be automatically granted to distributors
recognized by the (ASP) as adhering to its guidelines for
shareware distributors, and such distributors may begin offering
VAR Grade immediately (However we must still be advised so that
the distributor can be kept up-to-date with the latest version of
VAR Grade.).
Vendors distributing VAR Grade must distribute the entire
version of the program. This file, Vendor.DOC, is not part of
the version, and is meant for vendors, only. You should delete
it before distributing the program. VAR Grade is usually
distributed on two 360K disks. You can, however, distribute
it on any size disk or on bulletin boards. For bulletin boards,
I suggest that you distribute it as GRADE0.ZIP, GRADE1.ZIP, and
GRADE2.ZIP. GRADE0 would be an archive of the unarchived files
on disk 1.
VAR Grade can also be distributed in LHARC format. INSTALL.EXE,
which installs VAR Grade, will work with either LHARC or PKUNZIP.
Version 4.5 of VAR Grade was distributed in LHARC format. To
convert it to LHARC, you need to extract the files in the zip
files, and convert them to LZH files. You also need to delete
PKUNZIP.EXE and substitute LHARC.EXE. For BBS distribution, the
unarchived files on drive A can be made into a self-extracting
file called GRADE0.EXE by using the script below. Note that
Readme.46 assumes that zip formats are being used. To convert
it to LHARC format, change ZIP to LZH, and PKUNZIP to LHARC in
the description of disks 1 and 2.
The program files are listed below, as well as in the Readme.46
and Grade.Man files. Readme.46 gives a short description of the
program. Should you need further details, Grade.Man is the manual
in ASCII format. It is already paginated and can be printed, as
is, to a printer. It can also be read by any word processor and
while inside VAR Grade itself (Grade.EXE).
Short Program Description
VAR Grade is a full-featured program for recording, plotting,
and analyzing scores on assignments and attendance. You can
have any number of students, assignments, sections, or classes.
VAR Grade can handle number, letter, and extra credit. It
can automatically sum, average, discard, and weight scores.
The program is extremely flexible, allowing you to do your
grades just about any way you want.
Longer Program Description
This program has been written to be flexible enough to allow
you to grade your class with the same methods you now use--except
that the program does the tedious chores of adding, plotting, and
writing the scores. The program has been written by and for
teachers. It can be used for both grades and attendance. You
may grade with either letter or number grades, and you can mix
and match letter and number grades. The points of any assignment
or score can be changed at any time. Many different types of
pre-defined assignments, including ones that are the sums,
averages, and weights of other tasks, can be used. Any task or
combination of tasks can be plotted, correlated, and analyzed
statistically. Attendance for your classes can also be recorded.
Individual student scores can be printed or scores for each
section of the class can be printed an unlimited number of
ways. Student can be sorted, data can be imported from other
programs, and you can define your own grading system. You can
even control page length, margins, and type size when printing
the data. The program can handle 16000 students, 2000
assignments, 250 sections, 240 days of attendance, and an
unlimited number of classes.
BBS short description: Very flexible grading program for teachers
BBS long description: Grading for teachers; Unlimited students,
assignments, sections, and classes;
Attendance; Numbers and letters; Average,
sum, weight, extra credit, discard lowest
scores; Plots; Statistics; Reports; Mouse;
REQUIREMENTS
320K of free memory (384K installed memory).
Two 360K disk drives or 1 drive of 720K or more (a hard
disk is recommended).
And, if you want to display and print graphs:
Hercules, CGA, EGA, VGA, IBM8514, or PC3270 graphics boards
or ones that emulate these (any board capable of
displaying graphics).
A dot matrix, ink jet, or laser printer (NOT Daisy wheels).
FILES
The following files are in this version of VAR Grade:
Disk #1:
README.BAT Lists Readme.46 to the screen.
README.46 Introduction to VAR Grade.
PKUNZIP.EXE Archive program used to extract files.
INSTALL.EXE Installation program for VAR Grade.
GRADE1.ZIP Archive of the following files:
GRADE.EXE This is the main program.
GRADE.OVR This is the overlay for the program.
REGISTER.TXT Registration form.
GSAMPLE.PAR Sample class data.
GSAMPLE.DAT Student data for the GSample class.
A.PAR, B.PAR, C.PAR Sample classes.
A.DAT, B.DAT, C.DAT Sample classes.
Disk #2:
PKUNZIP.EXE Archive program used to extract files.
GRADE2.ZIP Archive of the following files:
GRADE.HLP The file containing help screens.
INSTALLP.EXE The program that installs printers.
GPRTDRV.PDT Printer drivers (for INSTALLP).
*.BGI Screen drivers for VAR Grade.
*.CHR Fonts for the screen drivers.
*.FRM Sample report forms
GRADE.MAN The VAR Grade Manual.
GRUTIL.EXE Utility program used to load students into
classes or print grids of the classes.
Script for making GRADE0.ZIP (for BBS's using PKUNZIP)
With the files for disk #1 in the current directory, and
pkzip available:
pkzip -a GRADE0 Readme.*
pkzip -a GRADE0 Install.exe
Script for making GRADE0.EXE (for BBS's using LHARC)
Make a batch file containing the following lines, then execute
it (with the files for disk #1 in the current directory):
lharc a GRADE0 Readme.*
lharc a GRADE0 Install.exe
lharc a GRADE0 Lharc.exe
lharc s GRADE0
del GRADE0.LZH
For Information: Dennis Revie
VARed Software
1490 Calle Fidelidad
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360-6819
CIS: 73427, 112
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