OK, so I understand why schools want to do grading on their computers. It makes it very easy to transfer information, and it leaves less of a paper trail, but why should the computer be the only method of storing grades. The teachers used to have a hardcopy and a computer copy, but now they’ve done away with the seperate grade books, which I don’t understand. What happens if the computers blow up or something? Having that seperate hard copy is data redundancy which all computer techs know is the key to running a fault tolerant network. Do you know how many times I’ve been asked by fellow students “Can you hack my grades for me? I’ll pay you.” Then I go on to tell them, “Not only is that way over my head, which means I can’t do it, and furthermore, I wouldn’t do it even if I could.” This doesn’t mean that someone else does not have the tech know how to do this task. It is unethical and should not even be considered by any honest student. That is why a hard copy would be a good idea for the schools to go back to, or at least use it as a back up solution.
That’s just my opinion on that.