It’s grading time again! We had a successful Banner grading experience in December so now grading is a piece of cake for all of us. Here are a few reminders to help make the process even less painful this semester. If you are new to grading this spring you are in luck because you don’t have to unlearn all the old SIS grading rules.
All grading is done on your final grade/class list form in Banner Self Service. There are no hard copy grade rosters. You use the same form you used to submit attendance information only this time you fill in the final grade column instead.
For security purposes Banner is set up so only the primary instructor for the course can do the grading. If your course has multiple instructors and if the non-primary instructor will be inputting the grades, you will need to contact Sue Smith in Academic Services to have the primary instructor changed. This change is ONLY appropriate for courses with more than one instructor. People who are not listed as instructors for the course should not be delegated with grade input.
All “F” and “W” grades require a last date of attendance. If a student never attended you need to put a “0” in the hours attended field and nothing in the last date of attendance field. Please remember to input this date when you grade as it is difficult for us to try to get this information once grading is over and we are obligated to try, no matter how painful it is for all of us. Grades other than “F” and “W” do NOT need a last date of attendance.
The system will allow you to give a student a “W”. We all know this is after the deadline. Even the system knows it and will produce a report of all “W” grades assigned after the deadline. As I’ve mentioned many times before, the R&R Office is regularly audited by both the internal auditor and outside auditors. These late “W” grades will be brought to our attention and you may be asked to rationalize any late “W” grades.
The grades on your final grade input form will roll to academic history throughout the day. This is done so we can send out transcripts and so the students can access their grades on a timely basis. If you need to make a grade change you need to continue to use the grade change form just as we did in SIS. All grade changes require a chair’s signature or we cannot process them. We cannot take grade changes, even if they are corrections of a typo, over the phone or through email.
Since you no longer have the back of the grade roster for communicating with R&R, we have set up a grading mailbox that is only open during grading. If you need to convey information to us, i.e. “This student withdrew” or “I don’t work during the summer and you do, ha ha”, please use HYPERLINK "mailto:gradenotes@monroecc.edu"gradenotes@monroecc.edu. Peggy Scata and I will be reading and responding to email in this mailbox throughout the day during grading. Using this mailbox for your grading questions will assure that they are taken care of as soon as possible rather than risking them being lost among the Cialis and “enhancement” emails.
I hope you all have a wonderful summer and that you will continue to read the Tribune. I’m going to be starting a documentation project in July and will be using the Tribune to ask for ideas, feedback etc. I’ll also be sending fall room assignment information through the Tribune.
Deborah Benjamin
Registration and Records
05/22/2007 |