YOUR USERNAME:
I have to come up with usernames for everyone that have to be between 6 and 12 characters long.  Your username will go by the following format:  Your full first name and then as much as your last name as will fit ***up to 12 characters***.  For example, my full first name is 8 characters long, so I can only add on 4 characters of my last name.  So if I were in the class, my username would be "jennifermint" - Note: if you type more than 12 characters, you will not be able to log on.

YOUR PASSWORD:
Your password will be your first initial, last initial and the last 4 digits of your social security number.  (For example, my password would be "jm0888")

ONCE LOGGED ON:
Once you are logged on, click on "Grade Summary" and you can check your grade for all of the classes for which you have me as a professor.

Q:  The letter grade listed on the grade summary page isn't accurate!!!  What is going on???

Don't worry if the "letter grade" report does not seem entirely accurate - the gradebook won't update your total letter grade until ALL of the grades are entered for a given assignment.  So, you may have a grade show up for an assignment, but because another person may not have a grade posted yet, your letter grade will appear lower than it really is until I mark everyone's assignment.  The gradebook prompts me to tell it when the assignment is FULLY graded (ie. when I have entered grades for EVERYONE in the class)...once this is done then the program calculates your grade at any point in the semester.  So...long story short, don't worry TOO much if your letter grade online doesn't seem QUITE right.  The main purpose of posting your grades online is that I just want you to be checking to make sure I have entered in your point totals correctly and that I have not overlooked anything.  At the end of the semester, I go over all students' grades with them to make sure my records are accurate and that it is clear as to how I arrived at your grade for the semester.

Q:  I handed in an assignment and there isn't a grade listed for it.  Why?

Sometimes I can be a bit slow in grading if I have a lot of papers to get through.  You should only worry if it says "Never submitted" next to an assignment and you definitely know you handed it in on time - if that's the case then definitely bring it to my attention.  However, if there is no grade posted yet and no comment next to the assignment, this simply means the assignment is in my pile of things to grade and I haven't gotten around to it yet.

Q:  On our syllabus, it indicates we get to drop some quiz grades.  How do I know if this is done when I look at my grade?

If, for example, your syllabus says that I allow you to drop your worst two quiz grades, this is something I have programmed gradenetwork.com to do at the beginning of the semester.  The grade you see at the top of the page when you log on will automatically be adjusting your grade to take these dropped grades into account as the semester progresses.

Q:  I had a class with you in a past semester - can I still log on?

Yes, you are still in the system.  Your username and password are the same as in past semesters.

***If you experience any problems logging on to check your grades, please email me and I will try to rectify the problem as soon as possible.***

Click here to go to Gradenetwork.com and to log on...