<p>Once grades are posted by professors on Blackboard, are they permanent or changable?</p>
<p>Do all colleges use Blackboard to post grades?</p>
<p>I think it's too late for you. Sorry.</p>
<p>What do you mean by Blackboard? Are you saying they actaully write them on a blackboard or are you talking about a computer grade reporting system? If a computer system, the anser is no, not all colleges use it because the ones I have frequent contact with don't. In any event once you get your final grade, it is usually it although if you find that errors were made in grading an exam and can convince the professor there are errors, you may be able to change the grade but you generally have to act quickly before the grades become part your permanent transcript. Also note that there are many tenacious students who treat their grade as just the beginning of negotiations and they start pursuing the professor and providing reasons why it should be higher based on a review of everything from the semester. Sometimes, though not often, those persons actually succeed.</p>
<p>Duke uses Blackboard. The grades can be changed, but I don't think most professors would, unless (like drusba said), the mistake is on their end.</p>
<p>Georgetown uses Blackboard, and though some professors report grades on it, the final grades are always "officially" reported on a different system that we use.</p>
<p>Isn't it Blackbaud?</p>
<p>it's Blackboard</p>
<p>Your transcript has your official grades.</p>
<p>I think grades on blackboard can be changed. they're not super final.</p>
<p>some profs use grading schemes that Blackboard can't figure out, and if this is true, they will usually let you know that the grades on blackboard aren't final. In the case of something you think may be a typo, yes, those can be changed. But in general, most of the time the grades that you get on Blackboard are accurate for your final grade, but they aren't official (as your transcript would be)
and not all schools use Blackboard, but more are starting to use it</p>
<p>I agree with Ctheflute, some instructors weigh the grades in a way that Blackboard can't do. All it does is just sum up all of the grades of the assignments, and the weighing part may / may not be accurate. Suppose your final grade is determined by homeworks, midterm and a final, with the proportion of 20 %, 30 % and 50 % respectively. And suppose you got an 88 for the homework, a 90 for the midterm, and a 70 for the final. In blackboard, your final grade may come up: (88+90+70) / 300 * 100 % = 82.7 %, while in fact, your actual final grade is 88<em>0.2 + 90</em>0.3 + 70*0.5 = 79.6 %. If you know how the professor weighs each of the elements of the final grade, do the summing yourself.</p>
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I agree with Ctheflute, some instructors weigh the grades in a way that Blackboard can't do.
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<p>My professor was able to accomplish that task with Blackboard.</p>
<p>Yeah, it depends on how he weighs the grades. Another workaround would be to play around with the number of points given for each assignments. Like, if the homework is worth 20 % of the grade, the total number of points for homework would be 20 % of the total number of points for the entire course or something like that (i.e, the homework is graded on a 20 point grading scale).</p>
<p>you can do weighted grades /w blackboard, your professor might just have to think it through, which maybe they decided they would rather not spend time doing =P. Some professors at my school do use blackboard, and some at my HS used it as well.</p>
<p>your transcript is your official grades, other mediums for viewing grades (including a "web transcript", where you can view all your grades online) are not official.</p>
<p>I teach at a community college and I use Blackboard (Bb) for all my classes. Grades posted on Bb can be easily changed by an instructor if an error was made. I post the the final grades on Bb as a courtesy to my students, so that they don't have to be on pins and needles while waiting for their report card. In my case, I have to access another system to officially submit the grades to the college. If an error was made, even after the grades become official, corrections can be made by doing a Change of Grade.</p>
<p>No, not all colleges use Blackboard.</p>
<p>In my college, very few instructors use Bb. I think it is a great tool. I use it to post practice quizzes and some notes/handouts( most are given out in class).</p>
<p>So could grades be changed after report cards have been mailed home already? Do mailing report cards means grades have been officially recorded?</p>
<p>Does your school have a site on its academic policies? Maybe the answer about under what circumstances grades can be changed is on the website.</p>
<p>At my school, once a grade is posted on WebCT (formerly a competitor to Blackboard, but one bought the other out), you can still go and request to view your scantron/grade report and protest anything that you believe was misgraded. However, I believe your final grade is final.</p>
<p>Ryu, The professor can change the grade - even after report cards are sent out- if he or she feels that an error WAS made. If you really feel that a miscalculation occured, then you have the right to present your case to the prof. But do you really have a case?? Make sure you know exactly how your grade was calculated and how each component was weighted. When writing to the prof, make sure you are polite and coherent. Don't bombard him/her with e-mails. Present your case once and then give the prof sufficient time to think about it. Remember, the prof is probably on break right now. </p>
<p>The end of the semester -when the instructor is burnt out - is NOT a good time to irritate him/her. I have a student who has written to me several times within a week (final grades were posted last week) to ask me for an extra credit project to raise his grade to a B from a C. He missed a B by 9 points. He had plenty of opportunities to do well during the semester. I politely told him that it is not my policy to give out extra credit projects after the course has ended and that I will write to him after the break, with suggestions on how to improve his study skills in college. He replied that he wants to go over the final exam to see that there were no errors in calculations.</p>
<p>Northwestern uses Blackboard for class announcements, assignments, test grades, etc. but our official grades are on CAESAR (along with our GPAs).</p>