A, B, C, No Credit Policy
Note: This no-credit policy still requires that students be graded on a 5-point scale. Grades should not be given as if C is the lowest possible score. Grading only A,B,C results in grade inflation.
At the completion of the semester, students with averages lower than C- will receive a “No Credit” (NC) for the course. NC is not a punitive grade; it does not affect a student’s GPA. It simply means that the student needs to repeat the course until he or she earns at least a C-.
A statement explaining the ABC, No Credit policy needs to appear on your course policy.
See the course policy in OSM for the official wording.
Grading Definitions
A 90-100 Excellent, brilliant
B 80-89 Good to very good
C 70-79 Satisfactory overall, but with some weaknesses
D 60-69 Not satisfactory in some significant ways
F 0-59 Doesn’t meet assignment guidelines at all or not completed at all
Paper grades can be converted to percentages like this:
A+=98, A=95, A-=92,
B+=88, B=85, B-=82,
C+=78, C=75, C-=72,
D+=68, D=65, D-=62, F=50.
Final numeric grades will be converted to letter grades like this:
100-98=A+; 97-93=A; 92-90=A-;
89-88=B+; 87-83=B; 82-80=B-;
79-78=C+; 77-73=C; 72-70=C-;
69 and below=NC
Please be sure to use this system for pluses and minuses so that all grades in our program are consistent.
Figuring Daily Grades/Participation Grades
Daily grades are a better option than traditional participation grades. Daily grades are in-class writing or exercises that are tangible evidence of a student’s participation. These daily grades can be graded as simply as a check or a zero or a system of check, check plus, etc.
Reporting Mid-Term and Final Grades
- You must have grades posted by the official UA deadline. Any grade not posted by that deadline automatically becomes an N (no grade). Thus, if you miss the final deadline for grade submissions, you will need to file a separate grade change form for each student. See Incompletes and Grade Changes for the grade change submission procedure.
- Use Banner in Mybama for reporting mid-term and final grades. (Faculty tab,Faculty Grade Assignment box);
- Observe the Registrar’s Office reporting deadlines each semester for mid-term and final grades. Submission deadlines are sent out by the Registrar’s Office and listed in the final exam schedule each semester.
- An online tutorial on how to submit grades is available on Banner (MyBama, Academics tab, Registrar box, Grades link, small Grading Tutorial link at bottom of screen).
- Mid-term grades are required for all first-year students.
- Mid-term and final grade options for First-year Writing classes are A, B, and C (with appropriate + and -), NC (for grades below C-), and I (for incomplete; only available for final grades)
- If you assign an NC (or F for non-FWP courses), you will be prompted to enter one of three reasons: earned, never attended, or stopped attending. If a student continues to come to class but goes over the allowed number of absences, you should enter “earned” as the reason for the NC.
- Midterm NCs: If a student earns an NC at midterm and you specified the NC was because they never attended or stopped attending, you’ll need to take additional steps if they return to class. Please see the registrar’s guidance.
- If you do not have the correct grading options on your class’s drop down box on Banner, please contact the first-year writing office immediately.
Grade Changes
Incompletes
However, sometimes incompletes are unavoidable, especially if students have academic misconduct reviews pending at the Dean’s office or have catastrophic emergencies during finals week. Contact the FWP Director before giving a student an incomplete. The FWP office not only needs to be aware of the situation, but can also help advise you on how and when the incomplete can be satisfied.
Once the incomplete is satisfied, you will need to change the student’s grade (see Grade Changes, above).
Mid-Term and Final Grading and Pending Academic Misconduct Cases
Grade Reporting Forms
Rubrics
Older Rubrics for Teacher Reference:
- Standard 101 or 102 Rubric with Numeric Values
- Rubric to import into turnitin / online classes rubric (Be sure to remove percentages and numeric values before uploading to turnitin; you’ll need to add values separately.)
- Rubric for summaries (EN 101) (Be sure to remove percentages and numeric values before uploading to turnitin; you’ll need to add values separately.
- Numeric rubric using EN 101 outcomes
- Holistic rubric using EN 101 outcomes