Numbers for Recording & Assessment

Spreadsheet are wonderful things, especially for keeping track of all of the students in a class, and while there are other tools out there worth considering, like iDoceo and Notability, those are constrained to the iPad—and working on a laptop can be handy, especially when managing the whole class. Spreadsheets also have really useful functionality like when you want to work out percentages and averages; especially useful when tracking test data over time, also for formatting cells so scores are colour coded to indicate highs and lows, et cetera.

What you really want is you be able to have your cake and eat it, right? That means you can use an iPad when that makes more sense, especially when conferring with individual students, But you can switch to your laptop when that makes more sense especially when doing over organisation and class management. Of course you want all of your data to be backed up online automatically so that there is no danger of losing any your work...

Google Sheets are great for this kind of thing, they work on iPads and laptops, but don't easily allow you to include image or video to support your records.

Wouldn't it be great if you could do all of the above, for free, and be able to add images, and even video if you want to?

That's when you should use Numbers, which also has built-in formatting so that you can think like checkboxes and automatically insert dates when you confer and so on. Here's an example, based on the great work Marie Braniff Hudson has been doing with this—names have been changed!