Collecting Scores

I learned a great way to enter scores into the computer from my first cooperating teacher.  Any time I had papers that are corrected and scored in class, I would use this method to collect their scores.  I would have all of the students line up alphabetically with their papers in hand starting a few feet away from my desk.  Students had to write how many they missed at the top left of the paper, and their percent out of 100 at the top right of the paper.  One at a time, they would step forward to my computer with their finger pointing to their score and I would enter them into the computer.  I loved this because it meant that I didn't have to collect 30 papers for every subject and find a place to store them.  It also meant that if a student was unprepared, they had to tell me to my face that they didn't have their homework and why.  It also meant that a student couldn't try to blame me for losing a paper, because they never turned them into me.  They were responsible for keeping track of their things.  I liked doing getting scores this way as opposed to collecting papers because I didn't have to jump from person to person while trying to input grades.  Everything was in order down the grade book.  It does take about 3 minutes of your class time once streamlined, but it saves you 10-15 minutes for each set of papers you would normally have turned in.