2024-2025 Faculty Exam & Grading Guide

GRADING

Grading

NEW PROCEDURE Recently, the current student information system, Web Advisor, was converted to Workday Student. Because Workday does not provide student examination numbers or the ability for faculty to grade anonymously by examination number we have contracted with a third party vendor, Appointlink, to provide these services. Going forward, Appointlink will be used for all law school grading. Web Advisor will no longer be available. Workday Student will continue to be the platform that faculty use to access their course schedules and view student advising information. Appointlink has been integrated with Canvas. To enter grades for a course, faculty will simply click on the “Grading” link on the left hand side of that course’s Canvas page. The lin k will open the Appointlink grading application. In addition to entering grades in Appointlink, Faculty are able to allocate grade “bump ups,” assign Jurisprudence Awards for eligible courses, and certify completion of the Legal Writing Requirement if applicable. Faculty entering grades in required courses and courses with 25 students or more will be alerted by the Appointlink application if they have departed from the applicable grading curves. Appointlink will prompt faculty who depart from the curve to submit a request for a “conformity exemption” before grades can be recorded. Take Home Examinations that are anonymous will also be managed through Appointlink and faculty will have the option, as in the past, to allocate 24, 48, 72 hours, etc., for student completion. Appointlink will manage the student download of the examination and the student upload of the examination to conform to faculty specifications. This means that if a take home examination is a 24 hour examination and the student can select any 24 hours within a window of time, (e.g., one week), this can now be managed automatically. Once completed, student take home examination answers will be downloaded from Appointlink by the Office of Academic Services and sent to faculty by email.

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