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Summary
Post official course grades online using the Minnesota State eServices website at the end of an academic term. Enter your official grades manually or transfer them from your Brightspace grade book. Brightspace grades are not official and must be transferred to the official student record system by using the eServices website.
Information Applies to
Faculty
D2L Brightspace Grades v. Official Grades
Many instructors use the Grades Tool in Brightspace to provide their students with feedback and maintain their course grade book. At the end of the semester, some instructors release their final grades in the Brightspace grade book for students to see. The final grades displayed in the Brightspace grade book are not official class grades. Instructors still need to enter their official grades into the Minnesota State Integrated Statewide Record System (ISRS) at the end of the term. They do this outside Brightspace via the Minnesota State Faculty eServices website. If the final grades are formatted in Brightspace properly, instructors can import them into the eServices website verus keying them in manually.
What is LDA?
Last date of attendance (LDA) can be important when submitting a failing grade for a student who stopped participating in class activities at some point during the term. For in-person, hybrid, hyflex, and fully online-synchronous courses, it refers to the last day the student attended face-to-face or virtual class meetings. In fully online-asynchronous courses, instructors can use the last day they received assigned work from the student. The LDA is used when adjudicating student grade appeals and the reassignment of a failing grade to a withdrawal and can affect the corresponding financial consequences, if any, of that reassignment.
Accessing the MinnState Application Site
- From the WSU homepage, select the Info for... tab at the top of the page and select Faculty and Staff from the menu.
- Select Employee eServices (or Minnesota State Employee Home) from the Resources list. You may need to sign in using your StarID username (e.g., jd8762vd) and password.
- Select Faculty from the Employee Applications list.
- Check that Winona State University is listed as your Home Institution.
How to Enter and Post Final Grades
- On the Faculty Application eservice page, select Faculty in the upper left corner and then select Grade & LDA Entry from the menu.
- Confirm that the correct semester is selected. This will list all of your courses for that semester.
- Select Enter Grades to view a list of your students. Enter their grades manually or import them from D2L.
Learn More
Need additional information or assistance? Contact WSU TLT by email, phone (507.457.5240, option 3), or Zoom.