Learning about spreadsheets...

Initially, I thought this topic would be fairly manageable. I soon realised there was more to learn about spreadsheets than I thought!

Adapting the mark book example to suit my own reporting processes was quite good. It was helpful to think about how I would best mark students work, and how I would format this using a spreadsheet. It was also really helpful learning how to highlight the students who are below average with their grades. This would be a handy tool to keep record of which students to follow up with in their work.

Then it came to the 'mail merging' stage. This gave me a slight headache as my computer was not doing what it needed to be doing. I soon realised (with the help of Mark!) that I had not labelled my columns as clearly as they should have been in my excel document. This meant that the mail merging stage wouldn't work smoothly.

Anyway, it all got sorted and I can see how this lesson would be so useful when the dreaded time of reporting comes along for teachers!