Coursework Performance Tracking

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Rickie Smith
Last updated: Jan 04, 2023
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What are Coursework Performance Standards?

Graduate students need to maintain certain minimum standards set by the Academic Senate. These include a cumulative GPA of 3.0 and no more than 12 incomplete units. The Graduate Division is tasked with tracking these standards. Details about this procedure can be read on our website here.

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How to use GradPoint to locate a student’s GPA, Incomplete Grades, and Academic Standing

Individual student’s cumulative GPAs and total number of incomplete units can be located in the Student Summary Box within the Student Profile. See for more specific information.

You can run reports in GradPoint Reports tab that will return all students GPA, grades, and incomplete units.

  • For cumulative GPA, quarter GPA, and all grades (including slicers to identify low grades only), please see the Report.

  • For incomplete grades, total incomplete units (including the specific courses), please see the Report.

Instructions for Following up on Incomplete Grades to see if they should be extended

(to be done by Staff Grad Advisors)

During week 9 of each quarter, Staff Grad Advisors should run the Student Incomplete Report to identify NG/NR/I grades that students have for that quarter, because those grades will lapse into U/F at the end of the quarter if not reconciled or extended. Students with I grades should be contacted with instructions on how to extend the I grade if needed. NR/NGs cannot be extended, unless the students submits both the incomplete grade and incomplete extension for to the Office of the Registrar.

How to run the Student Incomplete Report to identify all incomplete grades

  1. Navigate to Reports Tab in GradPoint Academics

  2. Select the Academic Performance & Standing Report Set

  3. Make sure the Student Incomplete Report is selected

  4. Make sure that All is selected from the Grade Slicer and the Quarter slicer so that you see all types of incompletes from all quarters

  5. You can filter further by selecting the type of incomplete (I, NG, NR) from the Grade slicer

  6. Contact students with incompletes and urge them to reconcile them or extend them. Student email addresses are included on the report to help with the contacting process.

Instructions for identifying NR grades and 12 or more Incomplete grades

During week 1 of each quarter, Staff Grad Advisors should run the Student Incomplete Report to identify two issues;

  1. No Records (NR) grades

    1. NR indicates that the instructor of record has not reported grades at all for that course, which usually means that the instructor didn’t enter grades by the grading deadline. Often times instructors forget to enter grades for their independent study courses, and need a reminder.

  2. Students with 12 or more incompletes

    1. Students who still have 12 or more incompletes (I, NG, NR) by census will be placed on monitoring status. Usually most of these cases are errors, and are cleared up by the student or instructor when contacted, so we want this done prior to the student needing to be placed on monitoring status.

How to run the Student Incomplete Report to identify NR grades

  1. Navigate to the Student Incomplete Report in GradPoint Reports

  2. Select the quarter (if you are in the first week of spring quarter, choose winter quarter to return incomplete grades from winter quarter)

  3. Select NR from the Grade slicer (if none of your students have NR grades, then NR will not appear in the dropdown)

4. Contact the instructors of record for the courses with NR grades and direct them to report grades as soon as possible.

How to run the Student Incomplete Report to identify students with 12 or more Incomplete grades

  1. Navigate to the Student Incomplete Report in GradPoint Reports

  2. Select the quarter (if you are in the first week of spring quarter, choose winter quarter to return incomplete grades from winter quarter)

  3. Select Y in the 12> Incom slicer (if none of your students have 12 or more incompletes, then the Y will not appear in the box)

     

  4. Contact the students on the list and ask them to clear the incompletes if they are mistakes (such as submitting final paper, or if it is the instructor’s mistake, asking the instructor to enter the grade, etc). Any student with 12 or more incompletes by 3rd week census will be placed on monitoring status.

    1. Student emails are included on the report to make contact easier