Posting Grades
Post Grades
Post the grades in the appropriate glass case for your class.
Find out from the instructor which forms generated by
scanTrax he or she prefers you to post.
The instructor may also want you to post a reduced copy of the
actual exam(s).
Note:Before printing out the corrected response files
(.scn), change the font to Courier or another printer
font so that the columns will line up properly.
Hold Office Hours
A number of students will insist on verifying their score by
seeing their own Scantron form.
And, even though you carefully checked for inaccurate IDnumbers,
you will find that you have scores for ID numbers not on your
class roster and ID numbers on your class roster for which you
have no scores.
Plan to hold office hours about a week after grades are posted.
In addition to scantron forms, have a copy of the exam and
multiple copies of the answer keys for the students to view.
Office hours will hopefully clear up most of the problems you
have encountered with unclaimed ID numbers.
MakeGrading Corrections
Open your .txt files (raw data files), make
corrections, then rescore with scantrax option 1
(this will give you perfect .txt files and
a perfect .sls file
and rescoring with scanTrax only takes a minute).
If you are certain that the scantrons will never need to be
rescored, however, you may make the corrections in the
.sls file for that exam instead.
scanTrax uses the .sls files to
get total scores for assigning final grades, so you want these
files to be accurate.
It is recommended that you use detailed documentation for
corrections. Also, keep track of ID numbers and scores for
which you have no corresponding number on the class roster.
These people may be waiting to add the class or will come
to you at the end of the quarter and tell you that they are
making up an incomplete from the quarter before.
In any case, hang onto all the information.
You will be amazed at the circumstances in which you will be
required to recall what you did.
Final Grades
Inserting Final Grades into the Class Roster
Choose option 5 on the scanTrax opening menu.
scanTrax will merge the grades list file (.gsm file) onto the class
roster file you got from the registrar's office. Non-matching ID numbers will
be indicated on the screen by scanTrax.
Post the final grades with the grade distribution, histogram, and
class mean and standard deviation. You may also want to post final office
hours and/or a deadline by when corrections must be made.
Your departmental office will probably need:
- a copy of the grades submitted to the registrar,
- any problem ID numbers,
- any other information that may help them to solve student
grade problems.