SUBJECT: FYW End of Term Memo: Final Exams, Final Grades, and eClass Folders
DATE: December 4, 2014
TO: First Year Writing (FYW) Faculty
FROM: Johannah Rodgers, Director of Composition
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Dear Colleagues,
As an addendum to the End of Term Memo distributed last week by Prof. Nina Bannett, I wanted to address some specific questions and issues that a number of you have raised related to Final Exams and Final Grades.
Final Exams
You are strongly encouraged to use a grading rubric for grading these exams. If you find that the final exam performance rubric available on the FYW@City Tech website is too cumbersome, you may want to consider creating your own, condensed rubric, using the department one as a model. Once graded, final exams shouldbe placed in the folder in which they were distributed to you and returned toLily in N512. These exams are kept onfile and are consulted in the case of any grade disputes.
Final Grades
Final grades, which are due by December 29, need to be reported in two ways: first, in CUNY First, and second, in the eClassFolder. If anyone has any questions about CUNYFirst, please feel free to contact me via email: jrodgers@citytech.cuny.edu. I willdo my best to respond and to your query quickly. Regarding the eClass Folder, which is really now a “sheet” and not a “folder,” you will need to submit this via your CityTech e-mail account to Lily Lam: llam@citytech.cuny.edu. You will submit the file as an attachment to your e-mail to Lily and YOU MUST SAVE AND NAME the file according to the following guidelines: CourseNumber Section Number Instructor Name Semester Code. For Professor Rodgers’ Fall 2014 ENG1101/HD69course, the file will be named as follows: ENG1101HD69Rodgers1149 Please follow this format EXACTLY. The“semester code” for Fall 2014 is–somewhat inexplicably*–1149 . For those who have been keeping their eClassFolder electronically, you can send the file as a .xlsx file. For those who have been keeping their eClassFolder on paper, you can SCAN a copy of this, name the scanned file according to the guidelines above, and e-mail that .pdf file to Lily. For any additional questions about eClassFolders, please refer to the Associate Provost’s Memo on eClass Folders on the FYW@CityTech website. For additional guidance on assigning Final Grades for FYW Courses, please refer to the section on “GRADING” in the FYW@CityTech Living Handbook for Faculty.
Thank you all for all of your work this semester. I hope you have a very good end to the semester and a wonderful break.
*For those interested in the provenance of this “code,” Professor Bannett has explained that in the language of CUNYFirst, the code refers to “1,” the millennium in which we are living, “14,” the designated year, and “9,” the month in which the fall semester generally commences.
Johannah Rodgers
Director of Composition
Asst. Professor
Department of English
New York City College of Technology
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