Note that final grading for Spring 2024 opened up on Thursday, May 2nd and ended at 11:59pm EST on Friday, May 10th. Please visit this Knowledge Base Article, for information that Faculty and Staff can use on how to enter final grades, links for tips and Department Grading Liaisons contacts if Faculty and Staff have questions about grading or grade submissions. Faculty and Staff can also send an email message to ssbgrading@temple.edu for help and assistance.
If Faculty or Staff missed the grade submission deadline, please submit a Grade Change Submission. Visit the Grade Change Submission website here, for information and instructions.
There are three commonly reported grade submission issues of which Faculty and Staff should be aware, as noted from The Office of the University Registrar:
1) Faculty member clicks on the course they want to grade and seemingly nothing happens. In this case, scroll to the bottom of the screen to access the opened class list.
This is usually only a problem for instructors with many present, past, and future sections assigned. Alternately, changing the number of displayed sections to something lower than the default setting may solve the issue.
2) The course to be graded appears to be missing from the course list altogether. In this case, searching by term (example: “2024 spring”) narrows the number of results and the missing sections reappear. One may also search by the Course Reference Number (CRN).
3) Faculty member assigns an Incomplete and edits the default deadline date, but then the grade will not save. To avoid this problem, leave the pre-populated deadline alone at submission.
If earlier deadline is desired, that should be specified in the Incomplete contract which the dean’s office will forward the Office of the University Registrar to update the record.
Four other common issues/misconceptions Faculty and Staff should be aware, as noted from The Office of the University Registrar:
1) Faculty member claims they do not have access to grading. To enter grades, instructors need to log into TUportal, navigate to the Faculty Tools Tab, and select "Enter Final Grades" from the Self-Service Banner for Faculty channel - not by selecting "Self-Service Banner" from the TUapplications menu. Grading access (apart from Grade History) was removed from the latter location several years ago.
2) Faculty member can view, but not submit grades. When multiple instructors are assigned to a section, all of them can view grades, but only the one marked on the Banner section file as “Primary Indicator” may submit grades or grade changes.
3) Faculty member claims to have finished grading, but the grades do not appear on the students’ transcripts. Grades entered in Canvas are not official. Final grades must be entered in Banner, the system of record, for those grades to appear on a student’s official transcript.
4) Faculty member entered grades, but Rolled Status shows as “Not Started”, thinking they need to do something further. “Rolling” is a daily system process that copies entered grades to academic history. This occurs daily around 5 a.m. (ET) and requires no further action by the instructor. This action also includes course repeat evaluation and GPA recalculation.
Visit: Grading for Faculty and Staff
