For the fall 2014 semester, the business, mathematics and education departments will be reporting mid-term grades. As of now only these three departments will be required to input mid-term grades. These departments will be piloting the midterm grade reporting so that academic affairs can review the process and adjust anything if necessary.
Midterm grades for these departments must be entered into CabriniOne between Oct. 10 and up until Oct. 17. Faculty can update midterm grades for students until the last day, Oct. 17. The last day to withdraw from a course is Oct. 24.
Students now have time to evaluate their grade and decide whether or not to continue in the course or fix anything they need to work on.
Students will be able to view their midterm grades by clicking on mid-term grades grades section in CabriniOne. “Students will have a better idea of how they are doing to that point,” Dr. John Brown, mathematics department chair and associate professor, said. “Especially the lower level courses it helps because of all the homework and quizzes.”
The faculty in these departments have been instructed to discuss the midterm grade calculation in class with each student so that they understand what the grade represents.
The grades being submitted are just estimates of how the students are doing. The faculty will only be inputting whole grades.
“It doesn’t really affect me,” Ally Fiorelli, junior mathematics major, said “I’m in the upper levels of math so I already have a good idea of what my grade is. In Calculus we just have three tests and a final the entire semester so by mid-semester I have very few grades.”
Not everybody was aware of the midterm grade reporting happening this semester in their department.
