ThinkWave Reviews & Product Details

It is easy to use. We have many professors who input grades easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is easy to use, but there is NO support if you have a question. I have had 3 questions (just yes or no questions) since we started using it. The support page takes you to an email link. After multiple emails to them, I have yet to receive a return email. If you call the phone number provided, it tells you to send them an email! We will be switching to another system because of the lack of support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ThinkWave allows for tinkering with the configuration that you give to each grading component (that is, whether it's graded on completion; check, check plus, check minus; percentages or points). You can allow students and parents to real time access to the student's grade, and periodically send PDFs via email to the student, parent, advisor, administrator, etc. This is FANTASTIC.

When having a meeting with a student regarding their performance and productivity, the tenor of a conversation changes drastically when you have a concrete printout of their grade. Everything becomes framed more objectively and less infused with emotion. You can allow a student to turn in missing work (or not), but to see that their grade did not magically appear from the heavens. There is a syllabus with a grading policy and this is how they performed. ThinkWave definitely made me a more effective teacher and boosted my students' discipline and work ethic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

doesn't seem to be possible to share the gradebook (ie, a class you share) with co-teachers which then demands that you just give them your login and password. kind of frustrating because you're then giving access to your entire gradebook; it's not ideal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that I can email students and parents a pdf of the grade report, and the system allows for comments to be added for each grade that is input. thinkwave is pragmatic, quick to set up and effective. classroom management is typically easy improved once students understand that there is a transparent and objective system being used to assess their work and progress. I came to first use Thinkwave during the 2018-2018 school year because I was looking for an alternative after engrade became a for-pay service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

cannot add co-teachers to be additional administrators for a class so you have to share login and password. this works but doesn't preserve the integrity of all of your other students' grades and privacy.

You also have to be careful to check the weight of assignments if you are assessing a task based on a check, check +, check - system. The first time that I used the software, assignments that scored a check (which is certainly satisfactory), were only being given academic credit at 50% of the weight of the task, which is failing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We only have 85 students so it was easy to get everything setup. It took time to get all the teachers posting their grades but we still were able to get progress reports and report cards out more or less from the beginning. Last spring ThinkWave created a custom report card for our school and we are vey pleased with how it turned out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It takes some adjusting to get everything up and running, setting up grade scales and and schedules, etc. But at the end of the year all the settings transferred to the new year so it git easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not really anything. Just that my work pays for it for me Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Speed ,ease of use, features, organization, easy to keep track of people Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Thinkwave is very well organized. Setting up a class and monitoring the progression of your student is extremely easy. I really like the tab features at the top of the grade-book. These tabs make navigating the site for teachers, parents, and students a breeze. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

From a teacher's perspective I've enjoyed using grade book and found it to be a tool that is easy to use and manipulate. I have however received feedback from parent's and student's that the sight can be cumbersome and difficult to use. Parent's have complained that the site doesn't update grades when I update them online. I'm not sure if there is a delay in updating time but having immediate results for my school community is a must. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.