My kid shares info about her grades each term, but I don’t actually see them. I trust her to be giving me accurate info! She has to maintain a certain GPA for a scholarship award renewal, and they are continuing to cover expenses, so I assume she’s doing well.
UC-Berkeley uses a variety of them, a couple home-grown, but one of them is called Gradescope which is used by a few Ivy League schools as well. I do have access but it requires two-factor authentication which pretty much means my kid has to allow me to look. So I rarely look, no point in stressing myself out and the last thing I want to do is to have a text message sent to him in the middle of a lecture or test, or while he is sleeping. Most communication and reminders is done via Piazza for most of the STEM classes.
Hmmm - grade access in college didn’t enter my head! Even in my kids’ HS, parents were not given access to the grade books except for one three day period each semester.
Some professors are very good at updating while others only post the final grade. And unlike high school, there may be very little to post with just a midterm and final.
My daughter’s coach did get notices (from some teachers) if she missed class or fell behind. I would have been the last to know.