Teaching Tips (including Best Practices)

Submitting Grades

• Enter your grades at https://ssc.adm.ubc.ca/fsc/servlets/SRVFSCFramework.

• There has been a departmental policy that if a student fails a course because of a failed final exam, failed project, or other component of the course that must be passed in order to pass the course, the student's mark is the minimum of the computed mark for the term and a mark of 45. This is the usual policy, but mention it in the course outline (and in class near the end of the term), to avoid any misunderstanding.
• Ph.D. students must have an average of 80% and at least 72% in each course for the course to count for their comprehensive course requirements (see http://www/grads/affairs/Handbook.pdf). Ph.D. students need 68% in every course to be making satisfactory progress. M.Sc. students need 60%.
• For grad courses: If you want to give a student an extension at the end of the term, then when submitting marks to the FSC, you should enter a "T" for Thesis in Progress, or you can just leave it blank. If you enter "T", then you would need to submit a Change of Grade form when the student completes the course requirement. Some instructors prefer leaving the grade blank to avoid the paperwork. There is no published deadline for filling it out, and other students should be able to see their grades as long as you "submit" (but not "save") the grades.