When are grades locked?

[Anonymous]

Usually it's the day after teacher grades are due but today is an MCPS school day off for everyone. Does that mean the school has until tomorrow to lock the grades?

[Anonymous]

No one?

[Anonymous]

“Lock grades” is a bit vague.

Teachers are required to submit q1 grades by 5pm Monday.

But individual teachers have different expectations. Some locked the myMCPS grade book from new submissions on Wednesday. Other teachers chose Friday at midnight. I had a few students who were sick, so I kept mine open until Sunday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“Lock grades” is a bit vague.

Teachers are required to submit q1 grades by 5pm Monday.

But individual teachers have different expectations. Some locked the myMCPS grade book from new submissions on Wednesday. Other teachers chose Friday at midnight. I had a few students who were sick, so I kept mine open until Sunday.

Does this mean no new grades will be added? My daughter has a couple assignments without grades that aren't listed as missing so I wasn't sure if they might be added late. (She's in third grade so we don't have a ton of experience with grades getting added)

[Anonymous]

Grades are done for this quarter. Teachers cannot add or change them now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“Lock grades” is a bit vague.

Teachers are required to submit q1 grades by 5pm Monday.

But individual teachers have different expectations. Some locked the myMCPS grade book from new submissions on Wednesday. Other teachers chose Friday at midnight. I had a few students who were sick, so I kept mine open until Sunday.

I wish more teachers would choose to (almost) finalize their grades by Wednesday because that gives students a few days to notice any errors. I like the teachers who are clear about their expectations like they will accept no late assignments after Wednesday or Thursday AND then they make sure to grade everything early too so that students are given a chance to look over the inputs to make sure they are correct. DD had a few terrible teachers last year who did not grade until hours before the grades were submitted. Students had no chance for feedback and to look over what they did wrong. One teacher was also notorious for inputting incorrect grades because she was so rushed and then there was no recourse to change them.

[Anonymous]

Isn't the no chance for feedback a violation of MCPS grading regulations?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“Lock grades” is a bit vague.

Teachers are required to submit q1 grades by 5pm Monday.

But individual teachers have different expectations. Some locked the myMCPS grade book from new submissions on Wednesday. Other teachers chose Friday at midnight. I had a few students who were sick, so I kept mine open until Sunday.

I wish more teachers would choose to (almost) finalize their grades by Wednesday because that gives students a few days to notice any errors. I like the teachers who are clear about their expectations like they will accept no late assignments after Wednesday or Thursday AND then they make sure to grade everything early too so that students are given a chance to look over the inputs to make sure they are correct. DD had a few terrible teachers last year who did not grade until hours before the grades were submitted. Students had no chance for feedback and to look over what they did wrong. One teacher was also notorious for inputting incorrect grades because she was so rushed and then there was no recourse to change them.

Ever consider the teachers do this on purpose?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn't the no chance for feedback a violation of MCPS grading regulations?

Rules don't apply in MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“Lock grades” is a bit vague.

Teachers are required to submit q1 grades by 5pm Monday.

But individual teachers have different expectations. Some locked the myMCPS grade book from new submissions on Wednesday. Other teachers chose Friday at midnight. I had a few students who were sick, so I kept mine open until Sunday.

I wish more teachers would choose to (almost) finalize their grades by Wednesday because that gives students a few days to notice any errors. I like the teachers who are clear about their expectations like they will accept no late assignments after Wednesday or Thursday AND then they make sure to grade everything early too so that students are given a chance to look over the inputs to make sure they are correct. DD had a few terrible teachers last year who did not grade until hours before the grades were submitted. Students had no chance for feedback and to look over what they did wrong. One teacher was also notorious for inputting incorrect grades because she was so rushed and then there was no recourse to change them.

Ever consider the teachers do this on purpose?

You mean you think there are vindictive petty teachers who enter incorrect grades on purpose to screw with young minds and their parents?
I'm sure there are some out there, but I think the vast majority of teachers who do this are just overworked and exhausted and some may not have the best organizational skills. They are people and sometimes make mistakes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“Lock grades” is a bit vague.

Teachers are required to submit q1 grades by 5pm Monday.

But individual teachers have different expectations. Some locked the myMCPS grade book from new submissions on Wednesday. Other teachers chose Friday at midnight. I had a few students who were sick, so I kept mine open until Sunday.

I wish more teachers would choose to (almost) finalize their grades by Wednesday because that gives students a few days to notice any errors. I like the teachers who are clear about their expectations like they will accept no late assignments after Wednesday or Thursday AND then they make sure to grade everything early too so that students are given a chance to look over the inputs to make sure they are correct. DD had a few terrible teachers last year who did not grade until hours before the grades were submitted. Students had no chance for feedback and to look over what they did wrong. One teacher was also notorious for inputting incorrect grades because she was so rushed and then there was no recourse to change them.

This has become a new reality with computerized gradebooks and overworked teachers. I do believe teachers are overworked. So I told my kids they have to focus on being perfect with their work and turn in behaviors. One time I was really tempted to ask a 9th grade science teacher to accept an assigment late that was improperly uploaded but decided to let my kid take the B. It was his mistake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn't the no chance for feedback a violation of MCPS grading regulations?

What does this even mean? What do you mean by no chance for feedback?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grades are done for this quarter. Teachers cannot add or change them now.

Interesting my kid still hasn’t received a grade for a big end of quarter precalculus exam worth a significant part of the overall grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn't the no chance for feedback a violation of MCPS grading regulations?

What does this even mean? What do you mean by no chance for feedback?

They mean that there isn’t time to pester the teacher into raising the overall grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grades are done for this quarter. Teachers cannot add or change them now.

Interesting my kid still hasn’t received a grade for a big end of quarter precalculus exam worth a significant part of the overall grade.

That's frustrating! It's 10% of the grade. That said, my child's teacher got it back a couple of days ago and he received a 100% and it only moved the overall percentage about 1.5%, so I don't think it will hugely influence your child's grade unless they really bombed it. It's still annoying, though!