Hello and welcome to this short introduction to
grading. Over the next few minutes I'm going
to show you how to get to your grading screen, enter and change student's grades, and look
up more information on grade options. As you can see I'm already logged in and at the
home screen on MyFVTC. First I'll click my
schedule. Then I'll collapse the menu since won't be
needing it anymore and I'll scroll down and find
the class I want to do grading for. Once I've found the class I'll click the Grade
Roster icon. From this page I can enter and change grades
as well as note the hours attended and last
date of attendance. Let's look at the Grade Guidelines first. A popup will appear, I'll move that up a little bit, and the Frequently Asked Questions for
Grading can be very helpful but for now I'm
going to click on the Grade Legend. The first two grades are student initiated. These grades are given when a student drops
themself from a class either online or in
enrollment services. The grade given is based on when the student
drops the class. You cannot give these grades
as an instructor and you cannot change them to a different grade. You can contact the
Registrar if you do need to change a W or WF
grade. Then let's look at the instructor initiated
grades. If a student never shows up your
class, you should sign them in an NS grade. If a
student attends for a while but then stops
attending, you can assign the WI grade. When you
assign this grade you will also be required enter the last date of attendace in the End Date
field, and I'll show you that a minute. If the student fails the course, you should give
them an F. When you enter an F, you will also be required
to enter the last date of attendance in the End
Date of the grade roster. Typically F's are given to students who stop
attending in the last half of the semester. In
addition you can also give the student an EX grade or an extension. 90 days
after the end of the term the EX will automatically be turned into an LF for Lapsed
Failure, if you don't change the EX a letter grade. As you can see the Grade Guidelines can be
helpful, but let's go back and enter some
grades. To enter grades, I'll click the drop down list next
to a student's name and select the appropriate
grade from the list. Walter Mondale stopped coming to class so I
will have to give him an F since it was in the
second half of the semester. Then, since I did that I will have to change the
End Date to the last day that Walter attended
class, which was April 10. I'll click that. Then if you are required to track hours this
would be the field you would enter them in and
there are a few other features over here if you click the check boxes next to the students
name, you can give all of those students a grade by
clicking add this grade to select students or you can send that group of students an e-
mail by clicking notify selected students. Once you're all finished you can click Save, and the grades will be posted overnight and
the students will be able to see them the next
day. If you would need to change a grade after it's
already been posted, you can scroll up, click request grade change, change the official grade, click submit, you'll see success pop up. Now Return to
Grade Roster to verify that the grade has changed. Click save one more time and I'm all done grading for this class. I hope this quick introduction to grading helped
you out Thanks for watching.