<p>Hi, I'm a sophomore in college and though I did get my final overall grades for the semester, I did not get the grade for my final exam and several other assignments.
As of now, blackboard (a site used to manage grades and assignments and such) says I have an 86. On the college portal site it says I received an overall grade of B- which is any grade ranging from 80-82. So, I'm assuming I didn't do so well on the final.
However, there is no grade for the final there and I haven't gotten an e-mail about it. There was also a group presentation project that hasn't been included in the grades too so I have no idea what grade I got for that. I also have no idea how I did on a short essay assignment that was submitted 2 months ago as that is not updated either.
The professor is pretty slow at grading but this is ridiculous.</p>
<p>I sent an email a few days ago asking if he knew the grades for those particular assignments and the exam because I just wanted to know how I did on them. No response.</p>
<p>Should I e-mail again? How should I e-mail him if I do?
I don't know what to do since last year a similar thing happened where the professor never gave me back my final exam grade and never responded when I emailed him. My friend in that same class said he emailed him back with her grade so I wasn't sure why I didn't get mine. Last year it was macroeconomics, this year it is microeconomics... I'm so done with this.</p>
<p>I have a professor that grades pretty slowly too. It took him 2 months to grade a paper for me. Grades are due Monday and none of my grades are in yet, which is weird. Email him again or if you have to email the chair of the department to get this sorted out.</p>
<p>This has happened to me several times, in that I’ve been in classes where grades for assignments or exams weren’t posted and we never got them back, but there’s a grade for the class on our transcript. </p>
<p>You should probably just trust it unless the grade you got makes no sense given the grades you’ve gotten in the class. If so, you can ask to see your final. Send another email, the professor may be getting a lot of emails and this may have just gotten missed. If they still doesn’t respond, go ask in person next semester.</p>
<p>I don’t know about that paper you submitted 2 months ago, but around here, we typically just get a final grade on our transcript - we don’t get to know what we got on our final exam unless we make an appointment with our profs the following term (usually).</p>
<p>I basically never even see my actual grades on final exams. My school uses Moodle for online grades, but a lot of professors don’t use it. Aside from research papers and stuff like that, I usually don’t see the actual grade on my final exams. I just see the final grade for the class. </p>
<p>I’ve stopped in during professors office hours on quite a few occasions to check out my actual grade on the final though.</p>
<p>thanks for the responses guys!
I always assumed it was normal to get all the grades in but I guess it’s pretty normal for professors to not input some grades. A B- isn’t that far off from a B so I’m not shocked. I guess I did poorly on the final :(</p>
<p>I’m in the boat of never usually seeing my final grades as well. My university also uses Moodle, but practically no one knows how to use it. I think I’ve had maybe 4 professors so far who know how to accurately have it calculate our grades. Sometimes they’ll just post assignment grades and have you calculate it yourself, but most just don’t bother. It’s usually a guessing game for us. </p>
<p>In this case, I’d say you did all you could do. You emailed him, and that’s that. Maybe try stopping by his office hours next semester to see if he still has it on file?</p>
<p>Moodle seems like a rather complicated system to me. In the three semesters I’ve been in college (plus one summer semester), I’ve only had 5 professors that have actually used it. Of those 5, only 3 of them actually had our true grades posted on there. My physics professor last semester only posted exam grades on there, but not labs or quizzes. My chemistry professor posted all of the grades on there, but the grade book didn’t account for the different weight given to labs vs. exams vs. quizzes etc. It basically treated a point as a point, so calculating the actual grade was my own responsibility.</p>
<p>^ I’ve had similar experiences! Last year my French professor was new and tried and failed to get Moodle to calculate a running average. The weighted averages were off so it wasn’t accurate (like you said, it treated each point as a point, not as 30% weighted for tests, 10% for homework, etc), and it was just a headache. She said she preferred blackboard. </p>
<p>I do like how it has the topics and stuff, though. A lot of my professors will theme it and we can see assignments and directions for each day of class. This makes it easy to navigate.</p>