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### **Who is this for?**

Instructional staff including faculty, teaching fellows, and teaching assistants

### **Grading responsibilities**

It is the **Head Instructor’s** responsibility to post (submit) final grades. Even after assigning grading permission to proxy graders, Head Instructors still need to post final grades.

### **Submitting Grades**

- [How to enter and post grade rosters](https://harvard.service-now.com/ithelp?id=kb_article&sys_id=17138bf6dbad8384a752f1a51d96194a)
- [How to submit a grade change request](https://harvard.service-now.com/ithelp?id=kb_article&sys_id=87180d92db61cb44a752f1a51d96199d)

### **Incomplete Grades**

- [Incomplete Grade Intructions and Guidelines](/file_url/222)
- [Incomplete Grade Contract Policies ](/file_url/441)

### **Student Privacy**

- All grade information is classified as highly sensitive and confidential data under the [Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974](https://hwpi.harvard.edu/fasro/student-information-privacy#ferpa).
- This information can never be released to third parties without the written consent of the students to whom the grades have been assigned.
- Grade information should never be stored on local computers or local database systems.
- More information
    - [Security and Privacy Guidelines at Harvard](https://policy.security.harvard.edu/)

### **HGSE Grading System** 

SortGradeDefinition**A, A-** 

High honors; distinction (There is no grade of “A+”)

**B+, B, B-**

Quality expected of a graduate student

**C+, C, C-**

Not up to the standards of graduate work

**D+, D, D-** 

Barely passing

**E**

Failure; no credit given

**SAT**

Satisfactory indicates that the work submitted is equivalent to “B-“ or better quality.

**NCR**

­No credit­: indicates that the work submitted is equivalent to a “C+” or lower quality. No credit will be given.

**INC**

Incomplete **may** be given to a student who has not completed the course requirements, but has done enough to justify granting him/her additional time to complete work.

**INP**

Permanent Incomplete should be given to a student who has done so little work in the course that he/she will not be permitted to complete it. If the student wishes to receive a grade, the course must be retaken.