Faculty: Reminder About Final Grades

By Kate Miller, November 30, 2021

Final Grading Timeline Fall 2021

Note: Correction to the Fall 2021 academic calendar grades due date, Thursday, December 30th by 10:00pm final grades are due. 

Course-related timeline:

  • Thursday Classes will be held: Tuesday, December 7;
  • Friday Classes will be held & last day of semester classes & Block II: Wednesday, December 8;
  • Reading dayThursday, December 9;
  • Finals begin: Friday, December 10.

Grade-related timeline:

  • Final Grading Opens: Friday December 10, 9:00am;
  • Incomplete Grading Option Opens: Friday December 10, 9:00am;
  • Grade Changes Opens: Friday December 10, 9:00am;
  • Students Can Begin Viewing Final Submitted Grades: Friday, December 10, 9:00am, via DegreeWorks;
  • All Grades Due: Thursday, December 30, by 10:00pm;
  • System Closes for All Grade Processes: Thursday, December 30, by 10:00pm (including Grade changes and Incompletes).

IC Workflow Approvers

Workflow-related timeline:

  • Must Complete Processing: Monday, January 3, at 10:00am;
  • Final GPA and Academic Standing Complete: Monday, January 3, at 3:00pm;
  • System Reopens for Grade Change Processing: Monday, January 3, at 3:00pm

How to Prepare

Ensure you can login to HomerConnect(and Duo): If you need assistance, please contact registrar@ithaca.edu

Review your roster: Are all of the students attending your class on the roster? Do you have students that have never attended? If you have questions regarding the status of the students on your roster contact registrar@ithaca.edu. This will reduce the number of NGS grades. 

Review how to post grades: Based on your feedback, we created an updated how-to video

Things to Remember

Last Attend Date (LAD): This only needs to be assigned for students that have a grade of F. If you are assigning a grade of F to a student you will need to enter the LAD to be able to save the grade roster. If you are assigning a grade of F to a student who has never attended your class please enter the LAD as the first day of the term: 

  • Fall term began 8/23/2021 
  • Fall block II term began 10/18/2021 

When students receive federal aid and fail to successfully complete one course within a given semester (for example, earning all Fs), we are required to determine the last day the student attended class or engaged in an academic activity.   

Incomplete grades: Can be submitted by faculty via IC Workflow until Thursday, December 30, by 10:00pm.  After this date, only NGS (no grade submitted) can be changed to an incomplete grade via IC Workflow using the grade change workflow (aka you cannot change a posted letter grade to an Incomplete grade).  All Incomplete grades must be reviewed and approved by the Dean’s Office no later than Monday, January 3, at 10:00am

Grade Changes: Once a grade has been rolled the only way to modify the grade is via a grade change in IC Workflow.  The Grade Change workflow for fall grading will be available starting Friday December 10, 9:00am.   

Grade changes cannot be submitted from: Thursday, December 30, at 10:00pm until Monday, January 3, at 3:00pm.  

Final GPA and Academic Standing: Monday, January 3, at 3:00pm

Please note: If a student views a grade for which they have chosen the S/D/F grading option before the Office of the Registrar ‘rolls grades’ the student will see the assigned grade. Once grades are rolled the grade will convert to the S/D/F option.   

If you have any questions, please contact Office of the Registrar at registrar@ithaca.edu. Thank you for supporting students!