Entering & Submitting Grades - Lava Java

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	Entering and Submitting Grades

Once you have opened the Instructor Briefcase, you can enter and submit grades for your classes over the Web by using the Web Grade Entry form. This form is similar to the printed Grade Entry Form A.

From the Briefcase Contents form, click the item number or page numbers for the class you want to grade.

The Web Grade Entry form is displayed

For each student in the class, complete the appropriate fields described in the following table:

Field	Entry
Decimal Grade	Enter the decimal grade for the student.
Grade	Enter the letter grade for the student. This field contains "*" (asterisk) until an entry is made to overwrite it or an entry is made in the Decimal Grade field.
Last Attended Date	Enter the student' s last date of attendance for any 0.0, NC, or NP. If a date is required for the grade you assign, the Instructor Briefcase prompts you to enter a date.

Press the Submit button at the bottom of the screen.

A form is displayed indicating that the Instructor Briefcase has accepted the grades.

Note: For each grade for which your college requires a last attendance date, omitting the grade will result in the following message being displayed:

To correct this problem, you must return to the roster, assign a last attendance date, and resubmit the roster.

Factors affecting the submission of grades

You can use the Instructor Briefcase to submit and change grades for a class as many times as you wish until the job to post grades to the enrollment file is run.

Once you have submitted grades for a class and the job to post grades to the enrollment file is run, you can no longer access the grade roster for that class. If you have submitted only a portion of the grades for a class when the grade-posting job is run, you will not be able to access the grade roster and will have to submit the remaining grades for the class by an alternative method.

After the grade posting job has been run, you can still access any grade roster for which grades have not yet been submitted.

If the grades are submitted successfully, a message is displayed confirming that fact. The message also gives you the choice of returning either to the roster or to the Show Briefcase Contents page.

If you have not submitted grades successfully, a message is displayed indicating which errors must be corrected. The message box also contains a button for redisplaying the roster to correct the errors.

Exiting the Instructor Briefcase

To exit the Instructor Briefcase, return to your home page or close the browser.

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