Procedure: If, for reasons beyond the student’s control, the student is prevented from completing a course within the prescribed time, the instructor may agree to defer submission of the student’s final course grade. The instructor indicates this approval by recording the deferred grade symbol (DF) on either the Grade Reporting Form or the eLion/Faculty/Submit Grades application. The expiration date of this deferred grade action is automatically recorded at the end of the sixth week of the next semester. (Spring semester DF approvals expire fall semester unless the student enrolls during the summer session.)
The Deferred Grade Form is only required if one or more of the following conditions apply:
1. The instructor’s approved expiration date is earlier
than the standard 6-week date.
2. The instructor is approving an extension to the expiration
date.
3. The course instructor is not available and an authorized
individual is making the approval for deferred grade.
Approved: ACUI (3-18-76)
Revised: ACUI (4-8-82)
Revised: ACUI (4-8-85)
Revised: ACUE (7-26-96)
Revised: ACUE (11-1-01)
NOTE : Dean's List scholastic action will not be taken so
long as a DF or NG symbol exists.
Revised: ACUI (9-13-79)
Procedure: Additional Requirements for Distance Education/World
Campus Courses
For consideration of a request for a deferred grade in a course offered
by Distance Education/World Campus, degree seeking students (including provisional
students) should be expected to have submitted between 50% and 75% of their
lessons, as specified by the associated college. Non-degree students
should be expected to have submitted a minimum of 75% of their lessons.
A request for a deferred grade must be received by Distance Education/World
Campus at least two weeks before the end of the course. Distance Education/World
Campus will provide the instructor with pertinent information along with
the student's deferred grade request. The instructor will notify Distance
Education/World Campus of the decision regarding the deferred grade request
in a timely manner.
Approved: ACUI (2-22-79)
Revised: ACUI (7-9-81)
Revised: ACUE (7-26-96)
Revised: ACUE (11-1-01)
Policy: click to access Senate Policy 48-40, Deferred Grades