Wrapping Up Your Course

This section contains key components to undertake upon wrapping up your course.

1.	Giving Students Extensions and Entering Incompletes When students require extensions beyond the scheduled completion date due to exceptional circumstances, including academic accommodations, instructors can request approval to apply an Incomplete (INC) to the student’s course record temporarily. Resource: Procedure for Incomplete Standing (Fillable Form from SharePoint Site)
2.	Entering Final Grades Instructors can submit student grades through NIC’s Employee Self Service area or through Brightspace. The Registrar’s office sends out detailed messages regarding grading at the end of each semester (mid-December, mid-April, and mid-August). Resource: Teach Anywhere Page — Submitting NIC Grades Resource: Entering Grades through Self-Service Resource: How to Release Final Grades in Brightspace Resource: Exporting Your Grades from Brightspace to Colleague Resource: Support for Special Grading Situations
3.	Exporting Brightspace Course Materials Instructors are encouraged to back up their Brightspace courses into a sandbox to retain their work for future use. NIC will only store live courses on Brightspace for two years. Student work — including assignments or grades — do not get backed up to your exported courses. Ensure you download the gradebook as a back up. Resource: When and Why You Should Export Your Brightspace Course Resource: Video — Brightspace — Exporting Course as a Back Up
4.	Storing and Archiving Student Work Faculty are only required to retain student academic work for the current year plus one year per Policy 1–05. NIC therefore only keeps all Brightspace courses and Kaltura Videos for TWO years Contact your department chair for guidance on storing exams and physical assignments. Students’ work in Brightspace can stay in the course. Resource: Teach Anywhere Page — Data Retention Procedures
5.	Reflecting on Your Course Reflecting on your teaching practice and students’ learning experiences in a course is a valuable activity. This can give you a sense of what you’ll continue and what you may change in the future. If you solicited student feedback, you can compare students’ perceptions with your own. A reflective instructor is an effective instructor! Resource: Teach Anywhere Page — Reflective Practice