Banner Grades is an add-on to the Brightspace Grades tool and Banner Adapter that enables instructors to export final grades from Brightspace to your organization's Banner Student Information System (SIS) in near real-time. Banner Grades features include Grade Exchange with Banner by Ellucian® with near real-time feedback, and a consistent and familiar Brightspace user interface for grades export. You can submit calculated or adjusted final grades, override a Brightspace grade prior to submission, and do section by section grade submissions.
Contact your administrator for more information about the following optional features:
- Submit letter or numeral grades
- Restrict submitted grades to released grades only
- Submit midterm grades
- Set last date of attendance for learners with failing grades
Using Banner Grades to export grades to your Banner Grades Student Information System
If you have been granted the necessary permissions by your administrator, you can use the Brightspace Grades tool to export grades to the Banner Grades Student Information System (SIS). If you are using Brightspace 10.3 or higher, the workflow for grades export to the SIS allows you to choose whether to export final or midterm grades.
If you need to record the last date of attendance for learners with a failing grade (for example, to comply with a federal requirement), you can enter a Last Date of Attendance value when exporting grades to the SIS. Your D2L site administrator can enable this feature.
Export midterm grades
- On the navbar, click Grades.
- On the Enter Grades page, click Export to SIS.
- On the Export Grades to SIS page, do any of the following that apply:
- From the Export Grades As drop-down list, select Midterm. If you do not select Midterm, learner grades may submit to the wrong grade book in the Banner Grades Student Information System (SIS).
- Review learners you can grade.
- If specialized grading codes (for example, incomplete) are needed, you can override grades. The override grade value does not affect the value stored within the Grades tool.
- Click Export All Grades. Only midterm grades will export to the SIS. Grades that the SIS has already accepted do not export unless you update them.
- On the Grades Export Status page, you can leave and return to review the export results later. When the grades export is complete, the status bar is green and the Export Grades submission summary page appears, displaying information about the export. Export information might include, for example, the first and last name of each user with an exported grade, and status and details of the export.
Export midterm grades and last dates of attendance
- On the navbar, click Grades.
- On the Enter Grades page, click Export to SIS.
- If you are required to submit the last date of attendance for learners with failing grades, the Last Date of Attendance page may display, listing only those learners. If you previously entered a last date of attendance for a learner, that date appears. Otherwise, a default date (1/1/1970) appears.
- For a learner with a failing grade, do any of the following:
- From the calendar, select a Last Date of Attendance.
- To use the current date, click Now.
- On the Export Grades to SIS page, do any of the following that apply:
- If no learners have a failing grade, on the Export Grades to SIS page, from the Export Grades As drop-down list, select Midterm. If you do not select Midterm, your learners' grades may submit to the wrong grade book in the Banner Grades Student Information System (SIS).
- Review learners you can grade.
- If specialized grading codes (for example, incomplete) are needed, you can override grades. The override grade value does not affect the value stored within the Grades tool.
- Click Export All Grades. Only midterm grades will export to the SIS. Grades that the SIS has already accepted do not export unless you update them.
- On the Grades Export Status page, you can leave and return to review the export results later. When the grades export is complete, the status bar is green and the Export Grades submission summary page appears, displaying information about the export (for example, the first and last name of each learner with an exported grade, and status and details of the export).
Export final grades
- On the navbar, click Grades.
- On the Enter Grades page, click Export to SIS.
- On the Export Grades to SIS page, do any of the following that apply:
- If you have the ability to submit midterm grades enabled, in the Export Grades As drop-down list you must select Final. If you do not select the correct grade book, your learners' grades may submit to the wrong grade book in the Banner Grades Student Information System (SIS).
- Review learners you can grade.
- If specialized grading codes (for example, incomplete) are needed, you can override grades. The override grade value does not affect the value stored within the Grades tool.
- Click Export All Grades. All applicable grades and the last date of attendance (if set) for each learner exports to the SIS. Grades that the SIS has already accepted do not export unless you update them.
- On the Grades Export Status page, you can leave and return to review the export results later. When the grades export is complete, the status bar is green and the Export Grades submission summary page appears, displaying information about the export. Export information might include, for example, the first and last name of each user with an exported grade, and status and details of the export.
Export final grades and last dates of attendance
- On the navbar, click Grades.
- On the Enter Grades page, click Export to SIS.
- In the Final Grade Check dialog, click Final. A Last Date of Attendance page displays, listing only learners with failing grades. If you previously entered a last date of attendance for a learner, that date appears. Otherwise, a default date (1/1/1970) appears.
- For a learner with a failing grade, do any of the following:
- From the calendar, select a Last Date of Attendance.
- To use the current date, click Now.
- On the Export Grades to SIS page, do any of the following that apply:
- If you have the ability to submit midterm grades enabled, in the Export Grades As drop-down list you must leave Final selected. If you do not select the correct grade book, your learners' grades may submit to the wrong grade book in the Banner Grades Student Information System (SIS).
- Review learners you can grade.
- If specialized grading codes (for example, incomplete) are needed, you can override grades. The override grade value does not affect the value stored within the Grades tool.
- Click Export All Grades. The last date of attendance exports to the SIS. Grades that the SIS has already accepted do not export unless you update them.
- On the Grades Export Status page, you can leave and return to review the export results later. When the grades export is complete, the status bar is green and the Export Grades submission summary page appears, displaying information about the export. Export information might include, for example, the first and last name of each user with an exported grade, and status and details of the export.