Grade checking is a daily occurrence for many high school students and now there’s an app that allows for just that. Graded was created by Reedy High School sophomore George Tayamkery.

“I thought that the website was just too slow and inconvenient,” Thayamkery via Instagram direct message said. “So I just made an app to make it more usable.”

Still in its early stages, students throughout the district are already using Graded with more than 1000 users having download the app.  

“I think that it is very convenient because it makes it easier to check your grades,” freshman Melody Tavallaee said. “I also think that it’s good that it shows your gpa constantly because it gives you a good idea of the grades you should be making to maintain a good one. I think it has a lot of benefits because it makes keeping up with your grades a lot easier”

Currently on version 0.7, Thayamkery spent about six weeks creating the app.

“It consisted of me planning and doing research on how to get data from the HAC site,” Thayamkery via Instagram direct message said. “After many Google searches I was able to code the project and make it how was now.”

Although the app is up and running now, it wasn’t an easy process.

“As far as difficulties were concerned, I had a plethora of problems,” Thayamkery via Instagram direct message said. “It took a long time go figure out how to login a person to the HAC site through code. Also, figuring out how to setup a server also took sometime. Even now, I get many bug requests that have to be fixed so it is still far from perfect. But still I think I learned a lot from these issues.”

Thayamkery is still tweaking the app but he’s already thinking about what to work on next.

“I’m planning on releasing a final 1.0 update that adds push notifications and some other features,” Thayamkery via Instagram direct message said. “After that I may do occasional bug fixes, but I’m probably going to move on to more crazy projects.”