<DIV>Addressing a classroom teacher's need to simultaneously manage a classroom full of students, meet state-mandated assessment standards for students, and track students' performance against a rubric, this overview of Excel shows how to put its features to use immediately in a classroom. Tracking attendance, grades, and books in the school library, creating reports to share with parents at parent?teacher conference time, and teaching basic charting concepts in a mathematics class are among the possible uses of Excel covered in this guide.<BR></DIV>