Well we’ve almost made it to the middle of the semester and for many people teaching large classes that means mid-term exams with bubble sheets being graded by the Optical Scan service at Whitmore.
If you need to take grades from an OpScan data file and post them in SPARK make sure to check out our handouts on merging data and importing it into the SPARK grade book. The data merging process can be somewhat tricky, so if you are doing it for the first time you may wish to set up an appointment with Academic Computing’s Instructional Media Lab (instruct@oit.umass.edu or 545-2823) for a walkthrough of the process.
For those of you who have not used SPARK, one of its popular features is the ability to post grades in a secure and convenient way, that also meets FERPA standards.