Release Calculated or Adjusted Final Grades

By default, the Final Grade, which is also the current grade-to-date, is released and available to students. Instructors can decide which final grade to release:

Calculated Final Grade: The current or final grade TCU Online has calculated based on scores that have been entered.
Adjusted Final Grade: Allows you to manually adjust students’ final grades. This may include rounding a student’s grade up to the next letter grade.

Learn more about other Recommended Grades Tool Settings.

Choose Calculated or Adjusted Final Grades

1. Select Grades from the Navigation bar.
2. Select Settings in the top right of the Grades tool.
3. Select the Calculation Options tab.
4. Under the Final Grade Released heading, choose Calculated Final Grade if you wish to release final grades as is to students, or choose Adjusted Final Grade if you wish to manually adjust students’ final grades.
  *We recommend that instructors START with releasing “Calculated Final Grade” to students, then, change the setting to “Adjusted Final Grade” at the end of the semester if you tend to adjust grades (example: 89.76 might be adjusted to be 90 by you).
5. Select the box to Automatically release final grade.
6. Select the box to Automatically keep final grades updated.

Release Final Grades if not Already Available

Release Calculated Final Grades

Follow these steps if you have selected Calculated Final Grade for your Final Grade Released option in Settings.

On the Enter Grades page, click the dropdown arrow next to Final Calculated Grade and choose Grade All.
If you did NOT check the Automatically keep final grades updated box in your Gradebook settings, you should recalculate the final grades at this time. Click the dropdown arrow next to Final Grades and choose Recalculate All. Follow the prompts in the window that opens. Otherwise, proceed to the next step.
You should first check that the final grades shown in the Final Calculated Grade column are accurate. Note that there may be multiple pages of students to view. Then, to make these grades visible to students, click the drop-down arrow next to Final Grades and choose Release All. After you click Yes to the confirmation prompt, your students can see their final grades.
Additional information: The grades in the Final Calculated Grade column are visible to all students for whom the Release Final Calculated Grade box is checked. If needed, you can check or uncheck this box to release final grades for some students but not others. To quickly change this setting for multiple students at once, select the students using the checkboxes on the left side of the list (the check box at the very top left will select all students on that page), and then click the Release/Unrelease button.

Release Adjusted Final Grades

Follow these steps if you have selected Adjusted Final Grade for your Final Grade Released option in Settings.

On the Enter Grades page, click the dropdown arrow next to Final Adjusted Grade and choose Grade All.
If you did NOT check the Automatically keep final grades updated box in your Gradebook settings, you should recalculate the final grades at this time. Click the dropdown arrow next to Final Grades and choose Recalculate All. Follow the prompts in the window that opens. Otherwise, proceed to the next step.
The Final Adjusted Grade column contains the grades which will be released to students. To begin, populate this column with the grades D2L has automatically calculated for each student by clicking the dropdown arrow next to Final Grades and choosing Transfer All. Click Yes to the confirmation prompt.
Now that the Final Adjusted Grade column has been populated, you can adjust these grades as desired. For example, if the student’s grade is an 89, but you’d like to bump them up to a 90, simply enter “90” / “100” into the Final Adjusted Grade column.
Once you’ve verified that all the grades in the Final Adjusted Grade column are correct (note that there may be multiple pages of students to view), you can make these grades visible to students. To do so, click the dropdown arrow next to Final Grades and choose Release All. After you click Yes to the confirmation prompt, your students can see their final grades.
Additional information: The grades in the Final Adjusted Grade column are visible to all students for whom the Release Final Adjusted Grade box is checked. If needed, you can check or uncheck this box to release final grades for some students but not others. To quickly change this setting for multiple students at once, select the students using the checkboxes on the left side of the list (the check box at the very top left will select all students on that page), and then click the Release/Unrelease button.