Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Please review the following important steps and reminders for end-of-semester grade reporting as it pertains to the optional Credit/No Credit (CR/NC) grading for Spring 2020.

Grade Reporting Timeline

The deadline for students to choose the CR/NC option via ASAP is 5 p.m. May 8, the last day of classes. For students who do not respond, the default will be the traditional grading scale.
Faculty can begin inputting final grades starting May 9 and have until May 18 at 2 p.m.
The deadline to submit Incomplete grades that are a year old has been extended to May 18 at 12 p.m. If this deadline is not met, each Incomplete grade from Spring 2019 will convert to an "F."
Spring 2020 missing grades will be assigned as "NR" (No Report) on May 19 at 12 p.m. and reported to each college for follow-up.
Student GPA and academic standing will be available by 5 p.m. May 20.

Inputting Final Grades

It is especially important to keep a record of the letter grade a student received independent of it being converted to CR/NC on their transcript.
Please submit your final grades through Blackboard because the Registrar’s end-of-term Blackboard to ASAP grade transfer process converts to CR/NC automatically. This method substantially simplifies processing and ensures accuracy. F and NC grades require a last date of attendance and must be inputted directly into ASAP.
If you input your grades via ASAP you will only be able to choose CR/NC if the student elected and an official record of the original letter grade will not be kept in the system.

Resources

For students: Guidance to help determine which grading option to choose
For faculty: Step-by-step instructions on setting up Blackboard to automatically transfer grades to ASAP
Academic Innovation is available Monday – Friday 7:30 a.m. – 6 p.m. for phone or video consultations to help instructors with the Blackboard to ASAP grade transfer setup. Call 210-458-4520 or email academicinnovation@utsa.edu.