Electronic Portfolio for K-20 Classrooms Now Runs on Windows

Added: (Thu Oct 27 2005)

Pressbox (Press Release) - For Immediate Release
October 26, 2005

Contact: Liz Aurbach
Title: VP Customer Care
Company: Aurbach & Associates, Inc.
E-mail: liz@aurbach.com


Electronic Portfolio for K-20 Classrooms Now Runs on Windows

(ST. LOUIS, MO USA) Aurbach & Associates, Inc. released Grady Profile v3, the first cross platform version of the popular electronic portfolio for K-20 classrooms. It now supports both Windows XP/2000 and Macintosh OS X/9 with a single common file format. The fully customizable portfolio keeps examples of student work along with assessments based on local standards.

The new Grady Profile is a portfolio tool, combining multimedia, word processing, data collection and reporting, making it adaptable to any educational environment, pre K-graduate school. This range is possible because the format, benchmarks and artifacts come from each school and its students.

ÒThis is the first time that Grady Profile has been available to the Windows market,Ósaid Richard L. Aurbach, Ph.D., President of Aurbach & Associates, Inc. ÒWe kept the best of the old Grady, the clean format, the powerful reading exhibit (which combines a sound recording with the text being read), and we added an array of new features in a suite of programs which vastly extend program capability and flexibility.Ó

The features include:
* Complete user customization of portfolio pages
* Templates for repeat use of page layouts
* An unlimited number of benchmarks, standards or rubrics
* Enhanced security for both users and data
* Unlimited artifacts (images, audio files, movies, web addresses, reading exhibits, computer-generated exhibits, and styled text)
* Hyperlinks to other pages in the portfolio
* Project portfolios for group work which can be distributed as new sections in individual portfolios
* A suite of separate, inter-linking programs for teachers, students, curriculum specialists and network administrators

ÒIn particular, special education teachers like to use Grady Profile because it supports their evaluations of student abilities which often cannot be realistically demonstrated through standardized testing,Ó said Dr. Aurbach.

Demos
Free hands-on demos for Grady Profile are available for downloading at www.aurbach.com for both Windows and Macintosh systems.

Pricing
Grady Profile prices address a range of needs from single classrooms to districts and colleges. Basic reporting is included in all packages and a separate ad hoc reporting package is being prepared to do sophisticated reporting such as aggregate and disaggregate number crunching.

About Aurbach
Aurbach & Associates, Inc. of St. Louis, MO USA has been developing "software that shows what you can do" since 1991, student eJournal(tm) (a writing tool for students, elementary-graduate school) and Toot! their first product personal portfolio for the consumer market. For more information, visit the company website, http://www.aurbach.com/index.html.

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Product page: http://www.aurbach.com/gp3/index.html
Download link: http://www.aurbach.com/form_gp3demo.html