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ASSIGNMENTS AND GRADING

You can submit your grades to your Faculty Office online, using My Courses.
There are two ways you can do this:

• Give My Courses your final marks  for each student. It will calculate the distributions for you.
  
• Give My Courses information about the assignments in your course. You tell My Courses what your assignments are marked out of, and what their weighs are. Give each student a grade for each assignment, and My Courses will calculate final grades and distribution for you.

Grading Using Only Final Marks
What You Need to Know Before You Submit Your Grades
1. You will be supplying a final mark for all of your students. My Courses will calculate the averages and grade distribution.

2. An ‘Incomplete’ grade means that a student will be submitting work after the deadline for submitting grades. You still need to provide a default grade-to-date with incomplete grades.

3. Mark a grade as an ‘Unofficial Dropout’ if the student stopped attending classes. The grade will not be included in the calculation of averages, but the student will still receive the grade indicated.

4. You can submit grades if your distributions are out of the target ranges, but you will need to provide an explanation of why they are out of range.

Entering Your Grades
1. From the course page, under ‘Administrative Options’, click on ‘Final Grades’.

2. The default marking method is 'Final Grades Only'. If this option is not selected in the 'Marking Method' dropdown, select it and click 'save'.

3. You will see a list of all of your students. Fill out the ‘Final Grade’ field for each student. If the mark is incomplete or the mark represents an unofficial dropout, check the appropriate box next to the grade.

4. You can save your progress as you go by clicking ‘Save Grades’. When you save your grades, the grade distribution table will be updated.

Reviewing and Sending Your Grades
5. When you are ready to submit your grades to your faculty office, click ‘Save & Submit Grades’.

6. If your grade distribution is outside of the target range, you will be asked to attach a message explaining why. Type your message in the supplied text field. This field will only appear if your grades fall outside of the target ranges. 

7. If your grades are you of the target ranges, you will be asked to attach a message explaining why. Type in your message and click ‘Submit Grades’. You will also see which grade range was outside the target.

8. Read the note on this page, and click the checkbox confirming that you have read and understand the message. Click ‘Submit Grades’, and your grades will be sent to your faculty office. 

9. That's it! You've submitted your final grades. 

 

Grading Using Assignments

What You Need to Know Before You Submit Your Grades

1. You must have one or more assignments set up in your course.

2. The weights of all of your assignments must add up to 100.

3. Every student must have a grade for each assignment.

4. You can submit grades if your distributions are out of the target ranges, but you will need to provide an explanation of why.

Creating Your Assignments
1. From your course page, click on the assignments tab. Click ‘Add’ to add a new assignment. 

2. Enter the information for this assignment.
‘Marked out of’ is the maximum grade for the assignment. For example, the assignment may be an essay marked out of 50.  ‘Weight’ is the percentage of the final mark that this assignment represents. 

3. You can click ‘Show more options…’ to reveal additional, optional fields.

4. When you are finished, click ‘Add’

5. Click on the assignment title to view it. You will see a list of all the students in the course. This is where you can enter grades for all of your students. Just type their grade into the text field beside their name. 

6. You can click ‘Save Grades’ to save your progress. When you are working on this page, My Courses will automatically save your progress every few minutes.  Make sure to save your grades before your leave this page! 
 
7. Repeat this process for every assignment in your course, until the weights of all of your assignments add up to 100.

Preparing and Reviewing Your Grades
8. At the end of the term, when you are ready to submit your grades, go to your course page. Under ‘Administrative Options’, click ‘Final Grades’.

9. The  default marking method is 'Final Grades Only'. You must change this to 'Assignments'. Select 'assignments' in the marking method dropdown, and click 'save'.

10. On this page, you will see a list of your assignments. For each assignment, you will see the class average, and how many grades are missing. A grade is missing if you haven’t given a student a grade for that assignment. You cannot submit your grades until all students have been given grades.

11. You will also see the total class average, and total weight of all of your assignments. You cannot submit your grades until the total weight of your assignments adds up to 100.

12. Underneath the list of assignments is the list students and their grades. Here you can see the grade that My Courses calculated for each student. You can also choose to override that grade before you submit it. Type a grade into the text box to override the calculated grade.  Check ‘Incomplete’ if this student will be submitting work after the grade deadline date. You still need to provide a grade-to-date with incomplete marks.  Check ‘Unofficial Dropout’ if this student stopped attending class. The grade will be removed from the calculation of averages, but the student will still receive the grade indicated.

13. You can save your progress by clicking ‘Save Grades’.

Submitting Your Grades
14. When you are ready to submit your grades to your faculty office, click ‘Save & Submit Grades’.

15. If your grade distribution is outside of the target range, you will be asked to attach a message explaining why. Type your message in the supplied text field. This field will only appear if your grades fall outside of the target ranges. 

16. If your grades are you of the target ranges, you will be asked to attach a message explaining why. Type in your message and click ‘Submit Grades’. You will also see which grade range was outside the target.

17. Read the note on this page, and click the checkbox confirming that you have read and understand the message. Click ‘Submit Grades’, and your grades will be sent to your faculty office. 

18. That's it! You've submitted your final grades. 

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