To: All Baruch College Faculty Members
From: David Dannenbring, Provost

As a service to faculty members and students, an on-line system will soon be
made available to allow simplified grade changes for those students who
received grades of ‘ABS’ or ‘INC’ in fall 2005 courses.  This is a one time
service to faculty members to facilitate approximately 2,000 change of grade
submissions that are anticipated as a result of the disruption of the final
exam schedule.

**It is important to note that delays in the timely submission of grades for
our students may result in problems with their registration and financial
aid awards.  Faculty are strongly encouraged to resolve the majority of
their 'ABS' and 'INC' grades as quickly as possible.

WebGrade will be made available for this purpose from January 24th through
February 10th.  Only those students who have been assigned an 'ABS' or 'INC'
grade will be available for change of grade.  Other grade changes must be
handled through the change of grade forms available from each department
office.  Complete student rosters for all January Intersession courses will
also be available for on-line grading.

Faculty should login to the system in the usual way as they did during the
regular grading period.  Any passwords that were previously set by faculty
during the regular grading period will need to be reset.  Once faculty
members have set the passwords for their section(s), they will access a
course roster that includes only those students for whom they had previously
assigned an 'ABS' or 'INC' grade.

Once the faculty members submit the completed revised grade sheet, they may
choose to receive a copy.  Copies of individual grades will be sent to each
student and a copy of the grade sheet will be sent to the Registrar's office
for entry into the student system.  There will be a delay between the
submission of grades and their posting to the student system due to security
constraints for changes of grades.  Any change of grades after February 10th
will require the change of grade form.

This process will only be in place to respond to the extremely high level of
grade changes that will be caused by the disruption of the final exam
schedule for fall of 2005.  It is not intended to be a long term replacement
for the standard practice of using change of grade forms.