How to Enter Grades at Semester's End
The eLion grade entry system, and
all other eLion services, are generally self-explanatory. Even those
who have never used eLion before can probably just go there and figure
everything out by applying common sense.
Here are the specific instructions for entering your grades:
1. Be sure to have your SecurID device at hand.
2. Go to eLion:
3. Under "Choose a Category" in the leftmost frame, click on "Faculty."
4. You will see something like this:
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Enter your PSU User ID in the uppermost form field and your password in the lower one. Note: These entries have no connection to your Secure ID device. Instead, the User ID is your email address minus the "@psu.edu" part (e.g., "xyz3" for the address xyz3@psu.edu). Likewise, the password is the same one you would use for email, certain library functions, and most other routine university business. Note that this is not your math account, but your CAC account.
5. After pressing "OK" you will see the main faculty screen. It contains a menu frame at the far left called "Faculty." Of the several items below the word Faculty, select "Grade Entry" by clicking on it.
6. You will see an authentication screen containing the following core element:
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In "Access Account Password" re-enter the same password that you used in step 4. In the "SecurID #" form field, enter the number showing in the window of your SecurID device. At the far left of that SecurID device window is a small stack of hyphen-like lines. If only one line is showing at the moment you go to enter your number wait a few seconds until the device resets with a new number. Otherwise, the number may expire before the eLion system can authenticate you. If that happens, you will simply be prompted to re-enter a new SecurID number.
7. You will then see a screen giving you a choice of courses, the core of which will look much like this:
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If you have accessed the system too soon in the semester, the courses will show a grading status of "Not ready"--as in the example here--and you will not be able to proceed. After this status changes to "Ready," simply select a course and press continue.
8. You will see a screen that looks much like the old paper-based forms for entering grades. Fill it in and submit the grades by pressing the appropriate button. (See the demonstration above to view a sample of this screen.)
9. You need not fill in every grade at one sitting. Throughout the grading period, you can re-access any sheet of grades repeatedly to add the grades of any stragglers. At a certain point, however, after grades are due, you will not be able to re-access the system to change grades. At that point, you will need to use the usual paper grade change form.
This page was developed
by
James A. Sellers,
Department of Mathematics,
Penn State University, based on an
excellent page already developed elsewhere. Last update:
May 17, 2006