Grade Submission on KnowHope Plus

Grades are submitted on-line using your KnowHopePlus account. If your department chair set up an account for you, she/he should have given you your user number (which is also your employee number shown on your pay stub) and initial PIN. However, If they have not already set up an account, contact Computing Information & Technology (CIT) by calling the Help Desk at x7670. They will set up your KnowHopePlus account. The first time you log-in, you will be asked to select a new PIN and a security question & answer in the event you forget your PIN.

Once you have access to KnowHopePlus follow these steps:

1. Select Faculty & Advisors
2. Select either Midterm Grades or Final Grades, depending on what you want to submit.
3. Select the correct term
4. Click on the submit button
5. Select the course for which you want to enter grades.
6. Click the submit button. All courses you are teaching will be listed and each must be submitted separately.
   • Note: If a course is not listed, you are not assigned as the instructor. Please call the Registrar's Office to correct the instructor listing.
   • Note: If you team-teach a course, one instructor must be listed as the primary instructor, and only the primary instructor can enter grades. Please call the Registrar's Office if you have questions about the primary instructor assignment.
7. Enter the grades from the pull-down menu. Only appropriate grades options are listed. The listing will be alphabetical by student last name.
8. Click on the submit button for EACH PAGE of entered grades before going to any additional pages.
9. If you want to check your entries, click the Return to Menu icon at the upper-right corner of the window once to bring you back to the Faculty Services Menu. When you select the CRN and submit, the grades you entered should appear in the Grade column.
10. You may make Final Grade changes until they are "rolled" to academic history. Once grades are "rolled" (you will see a "Y" in the Rolled column of the grade submission form), any necessary grade changes must be submitted in writing to the Registrar's Office.

Midterm grades are seen by the students immediately upon your entry. Final grades, however, require some processing by our office (done after the grade entry deadline) before they are available to the students. Grade submission deadlines are listed on the Hope College Academic Calendar.

If you are teaching a first-half semester course and want your students to see their grades immediately, you should enter the grades under both Mid-term Grades and Final Grades. Don't enter them under Mid-term and expect them to "move" to Final Grades!

You may disregard the columns listed as "Last Attend Date" and "Attend Hours" on the grade submission form. Hope College does not use these columns.

If you have further questions about grade submission, please contact Carol DeJong (x7397) in the Registrar's Office.