Alternate Grade Modes
Spring 2020
The university's regular letter grading scale for undergraduates is A, A-,B+, B, B-, C+, C, D, and F, and for graduate students it is A, A-, B+, B, B-, C, and F. Because of the change in how instruction was delivered as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, faculty used the regular letter grades with the exception that the F grade was replaced with NC. NC stands for no credit. Unlike a grade of F, the NC grade will not impact the QPA because it has no quality points, whereas the F grade has zero quality points.
Both graduate and undergraduate students were able to choose which courses (none, one, two, three , etc., up to all courses) they wanted to apply the alternate grade mode. For any course where the alternate grade mode was selected, letter grades of A-D were replaced with a grade of PASS. NC grades remained NC grades regardless of grade mode selected. This option was not made available to students seeking teacher certification and those enrolled in ROTC program at the time grades were processed.
Fall 2020 and Spring 2021
The university's regular grading scale for undergraduate students is A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, D, and F. Faculty will use the regular letter grade as normal.
Undergraduate students only were able to choose which courses (none, one, two, three, etc., up to all courses) that they wanted to apply the alternate grade mode. For any course where the alternate grade mode was selected, letter grades of A-C were replaced with a grade of PASS, and letter grades of D were replaced with a PASS*. F grades remained as F grades. This option ws not available to students seeking teacher certification.