I'm sure that there is information about my question somewhere in this forum, but I can't seem to find it. I've done several searches on different potential key words, but nothing of what I'm looking for comes up.

I'm wondering if there is an open-source grade management system out there that will work on Linux and allow me, as an instructor, to track the grades of the college students in my classes.

I have a very good system that I developed under Access 2003 that lets me track student grades for multiple classes, print class rosters and attendance reports, plan assignments and other scheduled activities, deliver reports on incomplete assignments, deliver progress reports, and export student contact informaiton to my Outlook client. Of course, Access is proprietary, so there's no product under LInux that can directly manage an Access database. This is really the only thing that's keeping me on Windows at this time (there are other minor issues, too, but that's a subject for a different forum).

I'd like a system that will do the same things listed above. I'm willing to write it myself if I have to, but I'd really like to see if there's something already out there that will do it all. I don't have huge amounts of time, so developing my own application would take far too long for me. I don't want to be spending so much time writing my own application that by the time I get it done, I don't need it anymore, you know?

Appearance and ease of use is also important. Most important, the system must be secure (not that Access is all that secure...). I can't run something with information that's as sensitive as grades and performance on a system that uses a flat-file text based database. I would like something that interfaces with MySQL if possible.

Anyone have any ideas or links I can check out?

Thanks.

Will OpenOffice.org read access files?

I too would love to have a gradebook program for linux. I did a search at freashmeat and sourceforge. There are a few projects, but nothing solid like Making the Grade.

Nope. Tried that. While OpenOffice does have some limited database functionality, I haven't been able to make it work for me. I'm real big on making forms to help make the application more user friendly, and I found the system in OOo too cumbersome.

I'm going to check out the system you mentioned. Is that a Windows only application?

Making the Grade? Yes windows only. I have an extra copy that I plan on trying out with WINE, but haven't gotten around to it yet.