Short description for Participate 1.02: Participate(tm) makes the painstaking--yet vital--work of scoring student participation a little easier--many say a lot easier! Rather than going to the board, fumbling with a gradebook, or sorting notecards, you can quickly look at your entire class on one small screen, tap on any student, and a point is automatically given (or taken away).You can keep track of: oral and nonverbal participation; groupwork points; students who are on task; and behavior (positive and negative).Teacher Features include: elementary and secondary modes for class enrollment; adding students from a memo pad list that you made on your computer (That is, you don't have to enter them all by hand on the handheld); multiple ways of displaying names in the grid; and NEW--moving students into your custom seating chart. Use it for real-time authentic assessment.