Faculty Resources in Colleague Self-Service

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Last updated: Oct 09, 2024 by Shelby Topping
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Valpo Faculty use Self-Service to access course listings, view course rosters, submit grades, and more. The following documentation explains how to use these features unique to the Self-Service Faculty Menu.

Table of Contents

Faculty Menu

  • From the Main Menu in Colleague Self-Service, the Faculty menu may be selected either from the menu boxes or from the Daily Work icon in the left-hand column menu.

  • The Faculty Overview presents the faculty member's courses, organized by term

  • By clicking on a course section, further detail will be presented on the Section Details screen including:

    1. The date range, days & times, and classroom for the course

    2. Available Seats in the course

    3. Deadline dates for the course - Add/Drop, Withdrawal

Section Detail Tabs

Roster

  • The Roster tab displays the course roster, including the student's name and pronouns (for Spring 2022), student id, class level, and email address

  • The Roster can be exported to a .csv file using the Export button

  • You can email all students on the roster

Acadeum students

Please note that Acadeum students will NOT appear on this roster, only on the Blackboard roster. It is recommended to use email functionality from Blackboard if your course serves Acadeum students.

 

Grading

  • The Grading tab displays both Midterm and Final (Overview) grades, along with a checkbox for if a student Never Attended, and a Date of Last Attendance.

    • The last date attended field should be used if a student has stopped attending class during the term. Please do not use this field to denote for the whole class the last date the class met, the date grades are being entered, or the last date of the term. If a student earns an F grade or a U grade, you will be required to enter the last date attended, and in that case, the last date attended may be the last day of the term.

  • The option to enter grades will appear at the appropriate point in the term for entering grades.

  • Grades are saved while you work. There is no longer a "Submit" button. This eliminates the problem of "timing out" requiring faculty to re-enter grades; everything is automatically saved and submitted.

  • Grade deadlines are published in the Academic Calendar.

  • The Faculty Handbook explains grading policies in sections 3.2.3 Reporting Grades and 3.4.2 Grading.

 

Grading Policies

Please note that the last date attended field should be used if a student has stopped attending class during the term. Please do not use this field to denote for the whole class the last date the class met, the date grades are being entered, or the last date of the term. If a student earns an F grade, you will be required to enter the last date attended, and in that case, the last date attended may be the last day of the term.

Students auditing courses should be given a grade of AU.

Please see the Faculty Handbook regarding the criteria by which students can be given an Incomplete grade.

  • Entering an 'I' grade will require entering an expiration date for I grade, per the faculty handbook:

    • "An ‘I’ received in one semester or summer session must be removed by the beginning of the official examination period of the next semester or it will automatically become an ‘F’. The student’s deadline for submitting the outstanding work to the instructor shall be one (1) week prior to that date." 

If you need assistance or have questions regarding grade submission, please contact the Office of the Registrar at registrar@valpo.edu.

 

Record is locked by another user

If you encounter a message that says 'Grade information cannot be updated because the record is locked by another user', please return in a few minutes to complete entering this grade. This happens if another user is making a change to the student's record at the same time. 

Grade Changes

The Office of the Registrar verifies grades multiple times a day while grading is open. This allows students to see their grades in DataVU. To change a verified grade, please use the Grade Change form. The workflow for the form will be automatically adjusted to include the approval(s) required in the Faculty Handbook based on the time since the course ended. This new form allows for automation of routing for approvals as well as notifications to offices impacted, such as Financial Aid and Athletics Compliance.

Permissions

  • The Permissions tab displays all categories of student permissions received for the course:

    • Requisite Waiver - a pre or co-requisite has been waived for the course

    • Faculty Consent - the faculty member has allowed a student to enter the course (used when faculty consent is required for a course)

    • Student Petition - a student has petitioned to be allowed into the course outside of standard restrictions (e.g. limited to majors/minors or class standing)

Waitlist

  • The Waitlist tab displays a list of students who are waitlisted for the course

 

Systems Maintenance Schedule

Colleague and DataVU are unavailable between midnight and 7:00 am Central Time daily and on Sunday mornings until noon for systems maintenance. If you receive an error message stating "Service is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later," please retry after the maintenance window.