Grade books

 

Grade books may be kept in many forms: paper-based, computer-based, or web-based.

The Grade book in GeorgiaVIEW Vista will allow students to view their own grades and not the grades of others. This is a popular option among students. Faculty have full control over which grades are released to students and when they are released. Some faculty elect to keep their grade books locally and then post the grades into GeorgiaVIEW Vista for the convenience of their students. GeorgiaVIEW Vista has an option to import and export the Grade book into Excel.

Excel, Microsoft Office's spreadsheet program, is also a popular choice. Like the Grade book in GeorgiaVIEW Vista, grades can be "calculated" from individual grades. One example of a calculated grade is finding the average of a series of quiz grades. By establishing the formula through which the grades are calculated, faculty members are relieved of the burden of hand calculating grades or an intermediate step to calculating an overall grade.

The following Word documents are step-by-step instructions for common commands and actions for use within Excel.

• Excel Actions used in Grade books
• Formulas for Grade books using Excel
• Importing Class Rolls from Banner into Excel

Submitting Official Grades

 

Official final grades are submitted electronically into the Banner Student Information System using Campus Pipeline. More information on the submission of grades can be found through the Special Projects Office, the office responsible for Banner Training.

Quick Tip: You can have a window to Banner open and a window into your grades (Excel or GeorgiaVIEW Vista) and then tell the computer you want to see the two windows side-by-side. See the tutorial "Tiling Windows Vertically" for information on how to do this.

Rosters

 

Official class rolls are obtained from information contained within the Banner Student Information System.

NEW: Picture-based rolls are now available through Pipeline. Log into Pipeline and select the "Elroy" Tab. Then choose "Faculty" and you will see the option for obtaining your roll.

Text-only Rolls:

To access the system to obtain these rolls you must have a Banner account. The accounts are granted after mandatory training which is conducted by the Special Projects Office.

If you need a class roll and have not yet received your account, your departmental secretary should be able to run that report for you. The person running the report will need to know the specific sections, such as ENGL-1101-A and B.

As of this writing, the active reports for class rolls are:

• WREG-107 which produces a file suitable for loading into Excel.
• WREG-106 which produces a paper-based roll.

Student names are loaded GeorgiaVIEW Vista via a process that extracts enrollment data from Banner. If there is a difference between the GeorgiaVIEW Vista roll and the Banner roll, the Banner-based roster is the OFFICIAL DEFINITIVE ROLL. Procedures exist within the GeorgiaVIEW Vista system to correct the GeorgiaVIEW roll. See the help system for adding and deleting members for those procedures.

Attendance

 

Attendance records must be kept for all classes. In the case of totally on-line or hybrid courses (some face-to-face meetings and some on-line meetings), the tracking and reporting mechanisms in GeorgiaVIEW Vista will act as your attendance record.