Online Grades:

LILT exists to serve all the technological needs of the faculty members. One of those needs is an application that can be used to post student grades online. This application requires both an ease of use and a need for security. Since the majority of faculty members keep their grades in Excel, we initially created a custom secure folder in which they could drag-n-drop their Excel gradebook. This system, however, proved to be so popular (but took to long to fill requests) that we have developed a new web-based system that is just as secure, easier than the original, and empowers faculty to manage their own classes.

To utilize this new system a faculty member must do the following:

1. The faculty member makes a request to be added to the system. Contact the LILT administrators for this.
2. Once added to the system, login to the College Information System with a ulid and password.
3. Create the courses for which a gradesheet needs to be posted.
4. Format an Excel gradesheet according to the helpsheet.
5. Upload the Excel file.
6. This creates a link at the bottom of the web page.
7. Send this link the students via email or post it on a website.

A student’s experience with the grade system is as follows:

• STUDENTS WILL GET THE LINK FROM THEIR PROF
• Students click on the link to the grade system.
• Students then login with their ulid and password
• They next see only their row of grades
• The students will also see any additional "wild card" rows that the faculty member wishes all students to see, such as Total Points Possible or Average.
• The path to the site will usually be in the following format
  • https://lilt.ilstu.edu/grades/student/
  • YOURProfessorsULID/
  • Spring/ (or Fall)
  • 2008/ (the year)
  • phi500/ (the course abbreviation)
  • 03.aspx (the section)
  • So, for a FALL 2010 bio 101 section 2 class taught by saskers, the path would be https://lilt.ilstu.edu/grades/student/saskers/Fall/2010/bio101/02.aspx

Check out our helpsheet page on how to set up online grades.

Note: We have added the ability for faculty to post a syllabus or a link to a syllabus.