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Streamline the final grade calculation, submission, and approval process with Grade Matter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e77fafdadcc860b47a3f8cb/1616984357187-DUKQX2K8ELOMZTEV1IM7/why.jpg Grade Matter - Grade submission and approval made easy - Why use Grade Matter for Grade Calculation, Submission, and Approval? Facilitates timely release of student results. Automatic grade calculation reduces the risk of errors in students’ grades. Auditing of all grade changes ensures accuracy and transparency in the grade review process, helping to resolve students’ queries concerning their results. Removes grading inefficiencies and mitigates risk. Course grading schemas are incorporated into the Grade Matter application to uphold grading integrity. Grade Matter increases productivity by automatically calculating final marks, grades and statistics. Flexible integration with existing university systems such as Canvas, Blackboard and D2L, Student Information Systems and Curriculum Systems such as Akari. Centralises the grade submission and approval process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e77fafdadcc860b47a3f8cb/1605255237172-E1QCKIDRDTUKPE8U80TW/about.jpg Grade Matter - Grade submission and approval made easy - About us Grade Matter is a product from education software experts All the Ducks. With over 30 years of experience in education systems and software, All the Ducks has a passion for solving problems and improving processes for higher education institutions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e77fafdadcc860b47a3f8cb/1615763495126-O9RTK8S3C6RH9ONGAB4D/DrBrennan.png Grade Matter - Grade submission and approval made easy https://gradematter.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-11-30 https://gradematter.com/how-grade-matter-works daily 0.75 2022-07-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e77fafdadcc860b47a3f8cb/1615781673974-G18DAX3SQQ94WDS6MFYO/laptop2+copy.png How Grade Matter works How Grade Matter works Grade Matter turns the process of calculating and submitting grades for a whole course into a quick, automatic, and less error-prone procedure, which only takes a few steps to perform. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e77fafdadcc860b47a3f8cb/1617852723161-NQ6C4A4BL3C1D44W4HBH/step1.png How Grade Matter works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e77fafdadcc860b47a3f8cb/1617852826995-3G0VY3GX2HTPG2KIHYIK/step2.png How Grade Matter works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e77fafdadcc860b47a3f8cb/1617852932489-DAQD9B34S8D0RUIL1889/step3.png How Grade Matter works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e77fafdadcc860b47a3f8cb/1617853001241-GZ3CAZ495MI9VMHS0LM2/step4.png How Grade Matter works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e77fafdadcc860b47a3f8cb/1617853072519-PI5JB21S02B913ZOT6UB/step5.png How Grade Matter works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e77fafdadcc860b47a3f8cb/1617854583349-LISTBTP6AULVRYKL91C2/owlwink.png How Grade Matter works https://gradematter.com/success-story daily 0.75 2024-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e77fafdadcc860b47a3f8cb/1615940667686-XFE3EKM66KZT1LPP4T4P/Grading+time+chart-03-03.png Success Story Success story At Bond University grade submission time reduced from 2.5 hrs to 15 min. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e77fafdadcc860b47a3f8cb/1615940242120-W2UN8ATOUIP1DVW8H8JS/Bond-01-01.png Success Story - Background As Australia’s first private non-profit university, Bond University has been providing tertiary education to both domestic and international students since 1989. The Gold Coast-based university is currently host to around 4,000 students across its faculties of Business, Law, Health Science and Medicine, and Society and Design. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e77fafdadcc860b47a3f8cb/1615791212671-IWYTEEKH4XMK1V40UQVJ/Challenge-01-02.png Success Story - Challenge Bond University’s academic timetable is built around three teaching periods (known as trimesters) per year. While this structure does provide many educational benefits, one drawback surfaced when it comes to grading. The shorter trimesters in quick succession throughout the year meant that course instructors had less turnaround time for their grading, and they were pressed for the amount of time they needed to dedicate to grade submission and approval. Not only that, but the sheer number of steps involved in the university’s grading methods meant that there was a high risk of human error when it came to accuracy and calculations, despite the stringent processes in place to ensure against this. On the whole, grade submission required course instructors to spend a considerable amount of time on meticulously checking every single grade to make sure that what they were submitting was completely accurate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e77fafdadcc860b47a3f8cb/1615791348233-LR0MHU5ID30J5HNO11ED/laptop2+copy.png Success Story - Solution Bond University understood that being adaptive and responsive to the needs of students is becoming more and more important in today’s changing landscape. As such, they needed a solution to the problem – the complicated and time-consuming grade calculation, submission, and approval. The university turned to Grade Matter to solve that problem, implementing the grade-calculating application in a bid to not only dramatically improve their grading process but also as a central repository for grades, and to ensure consistency across the operations of the faculties. The application was integrated into Bond’s existing Blackboard Ultra Learning Management System, StudentOne Student Information System, and Akari Curriculum Management System. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e77fafdadcc860b47a3f8cb/1615784784303-2KAFUK7GFOOFN4N8GZFH/DrBrennan.png Success Story https://gradematter.com/why-use-grade-matter daily 0.75 2022-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e77fafdadcc860b47a3f8cb/1615942723627-X95C0O1L7WOMC7LQFB03/Academic+integrity.png Why use Grade Matter for grade submission and approval? - Reduce Risk By automating and centralising the grade calculation process, Grade Matter reduces systemic risk, and provides comprehensive audit functionality for improving grading integrity and regulatory compliance. While Grade Matter allows instructors to adjust grades with ease, it also enforces the university’s grading schemas by restricting the instructor to the appropriate set of grades for a given final mark. This ensures that, after making any required changes, student grades will remain accurate and correct. Grade Matter records every mark change, grade change and comment made by an instructor. This leaves a digital ‘paper trail’ that allows other parts of the organisation to easily follow the development of an individual student’s final grade. This information is invaluable should the accuracy of a student’s final grade ever be called into question, and can be used to provide evidence of grade management policy and procedures for regulatory compliance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e77fafdadcc860b47a3f8cb/1615942323428-V24Z8W3T1B9JFADZX7GI/Audit+changes.png Why use Grade Matter for grade submission and approval? - Improve visibility and transparency By centralising the grade process and controlling all changes to final marks and grades, Grade Matter provides improved visibility and transparency in the final marks and grades process. Grade Matter allows instructors to adjust a student’s grade directly in the system, while recording every mark change, grade change and comment. This leaves a digital ‘paper trail’ that allows other grade reviewers (such as faculty members, administrators and auditors) to easily follow the development of an individual student’s final grade. It’s also an essential tool that can be used for reference should the accuracy of a student’s final grade ever be called into question. Grade Matter can prompt grade reviewers to provide a justification for a student’s grade change, which can then be read by other reviewers and the final grade approvers (i.e. the Faculty Assessment Board). This feature of Grade Matter enhances communication between grade reviewers and increases visibility and transparency across the whole grade calculation, submission and approval process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e77fafdadcc860b47a3f8cb/1615942371290-M2CHWVL0HU7MNMFKVA1A/Productivity.png Why use Grade Matter for grade submission and approval? - Increase efficiency Grade Matter has been specifically designed to increase efficiency by eliminating manual processes in the grade calculation, submission and approval process. With Grade Matter’s ability to automatically pull students’ assessment results from the Learning Management System and calculate final marks and grades, instructors no longer need to spend what can be hours manually calculating and entering each mark and grade for each student. The distribution charts allows an instructor to instantly see how many of their students achieved each grade, what the average and median marks are, and the standard deviation in the marks. More importantly, Grade Matter allows for instant identification of grades of interest. The application can sort and filter borderline grades, students who missed or failed assessments, grades with comments from other users, and more. This enables instructors to easily see which students meet these criteria, meaning they can more quickly identify marks and grades that need attention. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e77fafdadcc860b47a3f8cb/1615942424403-YCV6A7MLWK00E8PO3QGV/Integration.png Why use Grade Matter for grade submission and approval? - Reduce workload and grading stress Automated final mark and grade calculation and helpful review and moderation tools significantly reduce the amount of time course instructors spend on end-of-session grading. The automatic grade calculation process isn’t the only way Grade Matter can reduce workloads to increase instructors’ productivity. After pulling and calculating students’ grades, Grade Matter presents a distribution chart and an overview of grade statistics. A major issue for academics, especially in the current environment where higher workloads are a fact of life, is dealing with the stress caused by grading assessments and managing the grade process. While grading will always require direct input from the instructor, Grade Matter significantly reduces the workload associated with the calculation, submission and approval process. 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