Stephen Downes

According to this article, "Benchmark Grading has launched a free online tool for student grading and progress analysis toward state and core benchmarks. The Web service provides a teacher gradebook with extended features including comments and reports to keep parents informed." I'd be more interested in a standard way of representing benchmarks (something like a Benchmark XML), a tool that would let you create Bemchmark sets, and a tool that would allow you to select a Benchmark set and use this to map out your online learning.