More Breathless Incompetence from MU ITS
Written by Brian on May 11, 2008 – 5:15 pm - Welcome, if you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or subscribe to our email newsletter. Thanks for visiting!
I guess it shouldn’t be that surprising.
For my first four years at Marquette, finals finished on a Friday and, unless you were waiting for the completely incompetent people running the Les Aspin Center to stop coming up with weather-related excuses for not sending in your grades, grades for your classes were made available on the web late afternoon on Monday.
Last semester, however, some elements of the bureaucracy shut down, particularly ITS it seems, and ITS announced through Checkmarq that grades would be delayed and perhaps available on Tuesday around noon (if not later, which is more likely the case). At the time the bureaucrats killed the link to Final Grades on Checkmarq.
One could at least get around the problem by going to one’s “unofficial transcript” where grades were posted. I have no idea what the problem was with posting grades through the “official grades” link if they were clearly available through the “unofficial transcript” link on Checkmarq.
Well, now ITS communicates through Checkmarq that grades will now be available on Wednesday at noon. I’m sure this will now be official policy. I’m not terribly surprised. The bureaucrats at state schools and elsewhere usually claim that it takes a full week after finals week concludes for grade to be available online. Don’t be surprised when it lengthens in the future.
The funny thing is that somewhere lurking in the back of my mind is some kind of agreement between the Academic Senate and the Associated Students of MU about when grades are supposed to be available online.
Update: In the comments section, reader “Liberal Feminist” has the URL for the unofficial transcript which allows you to view grades that have already been posted. Thanks, Liberal Feminist!!
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May 11th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Sign into checkmarq, then put the following in the address bar:
https://checkmarq.mu.edu/psp/ps/EMPLOYEE/MU_SAPROD/e/?url=https%3a%2f%2fsa.mu.edu%2fservlets%2ficlientservlet%2fsaprod%2f%3fICType%3dPanel%26Menu%3dSA_LEARNER_SERVICES%26Market%3dGBL%26PanelGroupName%3dSS_AA_REPORT1%26NoCrumbs%3dYes
It will then let you view your unofficial transcript (at least it let me view mine, so I could see the two grades that had already been entered….).
I thought they might pull this again, so before finals ended, I favorited the above address.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Thank you, you’ve just made my day!
May 12th, 2008 at 11:48 am
No problem! I wasn’t going to wait to get my final grades, and didn’t think anyone else should have to either
May 13th, 2008 at 12:40 am
Also, if you click on the “enroll/drop a class” link, you can see your final grades. Good post Brian.
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:33 am
From the teacher’s POV - we (at least in the Klinger A&S school) are required to submit our students’ final grades at noon on the Monday after finals week.
The original Monday-afternoon-grades-report you mention sounds strenuous for any prof who has a Friday final - those finals have to be graded, and then grades calculated for as man as 100 students, and then entered in and processed by Checkmarq. For that all to happen by Monday is asking a lot.
Tuesday seems about right, since a few profs always miss the current the noon Monday deadline, and no single college’s grades can be submitted until ALL of them are reported. But I couldn’t understand (this semester) why the submission-to-publication turnaround needed 2 full days.