Entering Assignment Grades and Comments

In Faculty Access for the Web, you can manage assignments and enter assignment grades for each of your classes.

Entering Assignment Grades

  1. On the Home page, select the academic year in which to enter grades.
  2. On the navigation bar, click Gradebook. The gradebook opens to the Grades tab.

Select the marking column and class in which to enter assignment grades.
 

Grades tab
 

Gradebook

 
 

 

  1. In the Marking Column and Class fields, select the marking column and class for which to enter grades.

  2. Enter assignment grades in the assignment columns.

Enter assignment grades.
 

A column appears for each assignment, with the due date, assignment name, and maximum points in the column header.
 

 

Keep in Mind:

·         When you enter assignment grades, enter the actual number of points the student received and not the percentage value. For example, if the assignment’s maximum points are 50 and the student receives 32, enter “32” as the grade, not 64%. Enter the percentage value only if the assignment’s maximum points are 100 points.

·         Enter “M” to designate an assignment grade as missing. The M equals a zero assignment grade in calculations. Enter “X” to exempt an assignment grade. The X is ignored and excluded from all calculations.

·         With focus in a cell for an assignment grade, you can click Class Stats to view grade statistics for an assignment based on all students in the class.

·         With focus in a cell for an assignment grade, you can click Fill Down to enter the same grade for all students below the current student. The grade appears in the remaining cells of the column and overwrites existing grades.

·         With focus in a cell for an assignment grade, you can click Scale on the grid to view the grading scale associated with the assignment's category, if any.

  1. To save your grades, click Save.
  2. To open a printer-friendly screen to print a backup copy of the assignment grades, click Print on the grid. To print the screen, select File, Print.

Keyboard Shortcut Tips for Grade Entry

To go to the cell below, press Enter.

To go to the cell to the right, press Tab.

To go the cell to the left, press Shift+Tab.

To open the comments screen in a grade cell, click F7.

Tracking Overdue Grades

On your class list on your Home page, you can see which of your classes contain overdue grades. A red gradebook appears beside classes with overdue grades. A blue gradebook appears beside classes without overdue grades. A class has overdue grades if the class contains an assignment with all blank grades for which the assignment's due date for grades is on or before the current date. If at least one grade is entered for one student, the class cannot be considered overdue. You can click a gradebook to go to the Grades page for the class.

Entering Assignment Grade Comments

You can enter comments for each assignment grade.

 

  1. With focus in a cell for an assignment grade, click Comments to enter comments associated with the grade.

Focus in an assignment grade cell.

 
 

Click Comments.
 

 

  1. The comments screen appears.

 

  1. In the Comments box, enter comments about the assignment grade, such as for a project or term paper, to print on the Progress Report. In the Confidential Comments box, you can also enter confidential comments that can be seen only by you. You can format the text using the formatting options above each box.

Note: You can use the arrow buttons to scroll through students in the class and enter assignment grades and comments.

 

  1. To return to the Grades tab, click OK.
  2. To save the comments, click Save on the Grades tab.