Teachers Report Assistant

It’s report time again and as always I have left it to the last minute. Aah, where would I be without that last minute?  Writing reports one of the least favorite jobs I do but thanks to Teachers Report Assistant from Rays learning it’s a breeze.

It is windows only and as a Mac user I run it on Windows XP under VMWare Fusion with unity switched on.  It just looks like another app window and copy and paste works fine, you wouldn’t even know there were two operating systems running (2GB RAM helps).

It has been a while since I have used this app and it is now up to version 6.  The new version allows you to import student lists to further streamline your work and there are a number of comment banks for different subjects which you can copy and paste from the site.

I do still like to write individual reports for those students who stand out at both ends of the spectrum but for the majority of reports this is a huge time saver.

If you don’t have VMWare you can download Suns Virtual Box for free and Windows 7 RC1 is a solid operating system and is free to download until the end of July and use until March 2010.