These complex systems can track student performance, produce records for teachers and administrators, test students, provide remediation, and suggest plans of study for individual students. Electronic spreadsheets are computerized version of the paper spreadsheets used for years by accountants. They consist of a grid into which labels and numbers can be entered. The advantages of the computer version are that they can perform a variety of automatic calculations. VisiCalc was the first electronic spreadsheet, and the most popular program of its day.
Teachers can use a spreadsheet to make a gradebook or manage other numerical data.
Formatting Printing Disk Storage Special features, e.g. graphing, database access, macros, file importing, etc.