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Hi Students

I've had a quite a few students contact me, confused about the grade book display in their course area or not sure how to view/print out a report of their grades for a particular course. I'd like to clarify this.

If you click on the Assignments link under the *Activities* heading within a course, a grade won't show for any completed assignments because the assignments don't have a numerical grade, only a Competent (Pass) / Not Yet Competent. To view your assignment feedback and grades, you need to do the following:

1) Enter the course area you are enrolled in.

2) Click on the *Grade* link underneath the Administration heading within the course area (bottom left). This will open your grading profile.

3) Click on *Overview Report* for a total percentage grade for each course you've completed (or a tally to date if a course is incomplete).

4) Click on *User Report* for a more detailed view. This will open a list of all your assessment items for the course, your grades for those items and the most recent tutor feedback provided on any completed assignments.

Graduates often print out this Report to take along to job interviews or to show supervisors of their course progress.

As always, if you have any questions, feel free to contact your tutor/s.

And for those of you who observe Xmas, Search Engine College staff would like to wish you a wonderful festive season!

Kalena

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Hi Search Engine College students

I just want to clarify a couple of things about assignment grading. We've had one or two certification students contact tutors recently claiming that they've uploaded assignments that still haven't been graded after several weeks.

Firstly, before you contact tutors chasing assignment feedback, can I please ask you to login and double check the assignment page to make sure your assignment hasn't been graded first? Feedback from your tutor will appear on the assignment upload page after it is graded. Usually the system automatically generates an email to students when tutors upload assignment feedback, but occasionally, those auto-generated emails aren't received, are intercepted by over-zealous email filters or get filed in a student's junk mail folder. We don't have control over how your mail is filtered or received so you might like to make sure the searchenginecollege.com domain is whitelisted in your email program.

Secondly, you should never have to wait more than a week for any assignment to be graded. We did have a situation earlier this year where some tutors were on vacation and a backlog developed, but we will always try to avoid such a situation and post in the news forum if there are unavoidable delays.

If you've double checked your grades area and you find that one of your assignments hasn't been graded after a week, please contact your tutor directly to follow up and/or post in the student forum. It's possible that the auto-generated email alerting your tutor of your assignment upload has gone astray.

Thanks for your patience

Greetings Search Engine College students and members!

Today we welcomed our first ever student from Israel, bringing the total number of countries where we have students to 45. As you can imagine, keeping tabs on hundreds of students around the world can be challenging!

Which is probably a good time to remind all certification students to alert your tutors whenever you complete an individual course and/or a Pathway. The system sends a notice to tutors when you upload or revise an assignment, but NOT when you complete a final exam. So it's up to you to let your tutors know when you complete a course and are awaiting certification.

A big thank you goes out to our wonderful tutors who spend so much time grading student assignments, tweaking their lessons and responding to student questions in our forums. Keep up the great work.

As always, if you have a question about your course, please post it in the student discussion forum within your course area or message your tutor directly using the in-course messaging system.

Happy studying!