Transforming Your Grade Calculation, Submission, and Approval Process
White Paper
When it comes to calculating, submitting, and approving final grades (the grade process), most universities rely on an assortment of laborious manual processes and systems. Instructors do much of their grade manipulation and collaboration in multiple spreadsheets, and in many cases are then asked to re-enter those same marks into the Student Information System (SIS) for final submission and approval.
These processes create numerous risks for introducing errors of transposition and correlation, not to mention the potential for catastrophic grading errors resulting from incorrect spreadsheet formulas and sorting.
Automating this process to bring it into the twenty-first century provides numerous opportunities for saving time, reducing stress, and increasing quality, consistency, and transparency in the grade calculation, submission, and approval process.
This white paper seeks to outline the problems and opportunities in the grade submission and approval process, and describes ways that an institution might go about transforming their process.