rGrade™ 2.0 features more courseware functionalities to support interaction between students and instructors. The Course Home Page is a way for teachers to customize an rGrade experience for their students. Announcements, resources, and other information for the course now has a defined home in rGrade while the assessments and assignments defined by the program continue their seamless integration with the overall rGrade experience.

Instructors now have more artifact options for designating the student action for an assignment or assessment.

More tools are now available in rGrade to engage students in the process of assessment and their progress through a program of study. A program's decision point model is now fully presented to each student, showing her or his own progress through a faculty-designed assessment plan.

As courseware, rGrade can now be used to share a course syllabus over time. Part of a Unit Assessment System is to plan curriculum and align courses to standards. rGrade uses these alignments and the course metadata in general to answer questions about the curricula of an institution. These syllabi are available to students and can be appended for instructional decisions made during the semester.

rGrade's powerful curriculum builder now gains more power. Decision point assessments continue but are preloaded in courses now and delineated within a yellow area. Students see their progress in their view of their academic programs. More analysis tools are available.

The NavBar in rGrade™ 2.0 has been moved to the very top of the screen to use to select the different modules of rGrade. It's full-width now, giving us room to add some more general-purpose navigation tools and status information.

rGrade has always had the most powerful rubric-based assessment device on the market. In rGrade™ 2.0, this gets even more powerful while maintaining rGrade's simplicity. We've added a new dimension to the metrics of rubric-based assessment: Click values. Instructors can now set click values separate of the column thresholds. Click values work with the rubric's radio buttons to provide quick input of rubric row scores. Threshold values--those values that are used to calculate the categorical (columnar) designation based on the row score--are used by default for click values, which is how rGrade 1.x worked.

rGrade 2.0 has a new tool called the ViewPalette which enables the instructor or student to quickly navigate forward and backward in time, enlarge the text for the entire display, or shift between normal (800 pixels) and wide screen modes.

We designed rGrade 2.0 to be usable in 800 x 600 pixels--suitable for the smallest laptop computers. But, with the click of one button in the new ViewPalette, rGrade redisplays the page in wide-screen mode, equal to 95% of the width of your screen (leaving just enough whitespace to frame out rGrade 2.0's beautiful new interface!

rGrade 2.0 has been redesigned from the ground up with a new interface. Familiar interface elements remain for our existing users but the new design is much more powerful for the instructor and student. rGrade 2.0 uses a single frame design with i-framed external content. What this means is much more screen real estate for your coursework and assessment. We have modified many icons and background colors for a "clean paper" look. Also, we have added a common icon lanugage for rubrics, courses and assignments. The icons allow users to quickly detect if the element is "in use", "in development" and/or a "unit assessment".