Starting last summer we introduced a new grading workflow that allowed instructors to submit grades from Blackboard directly to Banner. Our hope is that eventually we will no longer need the grade submission tool in LeopardWeb that is so painful to many instructors. As you are probably aware, this implementation has not been without problems but we’ve worked out most of the bugs in our previous workflows and responded to requests for a simpler process for those who choose to keep grades in a system other than Blackboard.

IF you don’t use Blackboard for grades, simply bypass the Blackboard Grade Center and proceed to the Banner Grade Submit link under course tools in the Control Panel for your course.

Select Midterm or Final Grades. You should see a list of students appear. Next to each student’s name there will be a box for you to type in the letter grade that the student will receive. Enter all the student grades and click the Submit Grades button at the bottom of the page. You should see a message indicating successful submission and your grades are on their way to Banner.

If you use Blackboard to track and calculate grades, the process is simpler (Delete or toss any previous versions of the instructions for submitting grades from Blackboard to Banner in the recycle bin).

You still need to set a column in the Grade Center as the External Grade. You do not need to set a letter schema for the column. If you do, select it as the secondary schema. We have the system set to look for the WIT Undergraduate Schema (if you teach a graduate level course see the note below). There is no need to change the name of the schema.

Once you have grades ready to send to Banner, proceed to the Banner Grade Submit link under course tools in the Control Panel for your course.

Select Midterm or final Grades. You should see a list of students appear. Select “Midterm 1” or “Final” from the dropdown menu for “Populate Midterm/Final grade from current grade” item. You should now see the letter grade in the current grade column in the Midterm 1 or Final column. The system does not round grades. If you want to round up, you will need to adjust the grades in the Midterm 1 or Final grade column.

When you are satisfied with the grades entered, click the Submit Grades button at the bottom of the page. You should see a message indicating successful submission and your grades are on their way to Banner.

NOTE: If you teach a graduate level course you will need to manually adjust grades below a B- to F in accordance with the Wentworth Graduate Grade Schema.

Full Illustrated instructions for using Banner Grade Submit.

Video showing how to submit grades with Banner Grade Submit.