If I am inputting grades for assignments on paper, or through speedgrader it takes too much time to scroll through all the student's names when you have one large section. For example, if I am putting in a grade for a student with the last name "Day," I have to scroll through to get to that student or use the arrow keys to move to them. Then, to get to the next student "Zhang" I have to scroll / arrow down imprecisely to get to that name, then back up to C for "Clark," etc. While I know there is a "search" box to utilize, that requires clicking in the search box, typing the letter, which will bring up an student with the letter "d" in their name until I continue typing, then clicking on the right student, inputting their score, and then clicking on the "X" in the search bar to clear the result, and start again. It is way too tedius of a process.
When we had SchoolLoop, we could type the first letter of the student's last name and jump to the rows where student's with that letter of last name started. This made inputting grades much easier. For example, if I am putting in a score for the student with the last name "Day," and have students sorted by last name in my gradebook, I can type "D" and it will jump to the first student with a last name starting with D. If you continue typing their last name it will further refine where you land in list of students. This made inputting grades much faster as you could easily jump through your student names without having to scroll or click on the search box and search each time. Going from "Day" to "Zhang" requires a lot of scrolling up and down, back and forth, wasting time.
