Our
Registrar went to completely online grading last fall. We had
piloted for the summer and found that it worked well. And our registrar
says that the fall was the quickest and most accurate grading period that has
ever been done. Some of the issues were
Pluses
included shortening the grading period from a month to two week, no duplicate
effort, once the grades were entered, they were done. Before someone had
to sit in the Registrar's office and type them in. And the faculty found
it easy.
We use the
Web for Faculty component of Plus SIS.
Julie Ouska
CIO/VP of Information Technology
Mercy College
555 Broadway
Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522
(914) 674-7679 fax (914) 674-7514
jouska@mercy.edu
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We
exploited our budget crises somewhat last year and didn't mail grades in order
to save costs. Since then we stopped mailing grades all together, they are
available on the web.
Karin
Steinbrenner
Associate
Provost and CIO
The
Phone:
704-687-2347
Fax:
704-687-3868
e-mail
ksteinbr@email.uncc.edu
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At Simon's
that has a web-based front end
for submitting grades and comments. The
registrar uses FileMaker Pro; the web
stuff is in php and postgresql.
We're using this system at
two separate schools, one authenticates
through ldap;
the other through the /etc/passwd file on the linux
system with the apache web-server
that hosts the application. The
basic model is:
authenticate the faculty member; accept
grade and comment (comments are
required here for every student);
write the grade and comment to the
FileMaker
db. There is an optional email message to the
faculty member
with the submitted grade and
comment. At the end of the semester we
display the grade and comment from
the mid-term as well so the faculty
member can see just what it was
that s/he said at midterm.
The registrar uses these
grades and comments as/is, emailing a final
grade/roster list to the faculty so that
they can check for errors and
send corrections if necessary.
If you would like further
information, code, etc, send a message.
David Reed
Director, Computing and
Media Services
Simon's
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I helped implement an
Electronic Grade Submission system (E-Grades) at the
http://duke.usask.ca/~deschner/cause98/
and the paper itself is on the
EDUCAUSE website at
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/html/cnc9816/cnc9816.html
The focus of this system is
to move grades that are already in electronic form, usually a spreadsheet, into
our Student DB with all appropriate approvals (usually department heads). It is
not meant as an on-line grade book. It is in use in about 60% of campus, but
generally faculty still give the grades to office
staff to enter, even if they just do it in a spreadsheet and upload to
E-Grades.
Hope this helps,
Alan
--
Alan Deschner,
Project Manager , Student Information Project
Voice: 306-966-4846
w/v-mail |
FAX: 306-966-2609 |
mailto:Alan.Deschner@usask.ca |
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I'll forward this to the
administrative systems management list, which is focused on exactly this type
of issue. I would suggest that you
subscribe to that constituent group from <http://www.educause.edu>.
All of our grades are
entered on the web. While there is no
paper trail, there is an electronic trail.
We don't have to print and distribute rosters, we don't have to collect
them, we don't have to scan them, faculty can enter grades without worrying
about mailing speed, but most importantly, students don't have to wait to see
grades. We had to make a big sell for
some professors. They don't care how
much money is saved, and that students get grades earlier, so we sold it on the
basis that they don't have to worry about sending and receiving printed rosters
- a big pain for many.
Kevin Shalla
Director, Student
Information Systems
Illinois Institute of
Technology
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The
submission system that serves all
campuses. Here is a view from the
<http://www.d.umn.edu/faculty/grading/>
Note that you will not be
able to access the second link on this page,
since it is password
protected. But the other links should be
available.
Linda
____________________________________________
Linda Deneen,
Director
Information Technology
Systems and Services
ldeneen@d.umn.edu
(218) 726-7588
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Here at
(http://www.inform.wayne.edu/pdf/quickstartguide.pdf)
which we distributed widely. We also sent teams around to colleges and
departments to do presentations on how to enter grades under the new system.
Lots of issues arose.
Since each individual
faculty member has a separate logon to Pipeline, and courses were associated to
individuals, only the faculty member of record could enter grades. This caused potential problems for jointly
taught courses, directed reading courses, courses taught by GA's and courses
with hundreds of students. We
established a set of 'proxy graders', usually secretaries and executive
assistants who could access courses without being instructor of record. There
were severe platform and browser problems, especially for the first go-round,
where it turned out that IE 5.5 couldn't display the second (and
subsequent) pages of a large
class. That got fixed with a lot of
Geoff Nathan
Geoffrey S. Nathan
<geoffnathan@wayne.edu>
Faculty Liaison, Computing
and Information Technology,
Linguistics Program
(snailmail)
Department of English
Phone Numbers
Computing and Information
Technology: (313) 577-1259 Linguistics
(English): (313) 577-8621
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We are a Datatel
client and use the WebAdvisor module for this
purpose.
All course grades are reported online. Students access their record
and can print a transcript at
any time.
We also use the system for
registration.
Paul Levit
'71
Executive Director
Information Technology
717.245.1256