Last semester, students experienced ConnectCarolina for the first time during registration.
This semester, students, faculty and staff will have another first-time experience with the system when professors submit grades electronically.
Before ConnectCarolina, instructors submitted grades in paper form to the registrar, who would then input grades into Student Central for students to access online.
Now Student Central is out of the picture and the process is more direct, although not entirely paperless. Professors still have to submit paper forms if a grade needs to be changed, or if a student receives a grade of incomplete.
“Paper submission was pretty easy; this new system looks like it’ll be pretty simple as well,” said one teaching assistant at a demonstration hosted Monday by the registrar’s office. The demonstration was lead by Chris Derickson, assistant provost and University registrar.
“I know this is a big change,” he told more than 100 professors, teaching assistants and administrators gathered in Greenlaw Hall.
“But grading is still grading.”
Faculty will still have 72 hours after their classes’ final exams finish to officially submit grades. They will see students’ final grades on the faculty center of ConnectCarolina and can use drop-down menus next to students’ names to select a grade.
The new system might not be without hiccups, though. Professors teaching classes with multiple sections will need to add grades to the roster for each individual section, as will those entering grades for courses that are cross-listed in multiple departments.
