Grading Information for Faculty

 INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING GRADES VIA PRESTO 

When to Submit Your Grades

You will be able to enter final grades in PRESTO from Monday, May 7 to 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 30. Please remember that grades for graduating seniors must be submitted by Thursday, May 24th at NOON.

Hours of operation (all times listed are E.S.T.) for PRESTO are:
Monday – Friday: 5:30 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.
Saturday: 6:30 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.
Sunday: 9:00 a.m. – 11:30 p.m. 

Complete policies and instructions can be found here. 

Logging on to PRESTO

Once you have determined that you are using an acceptable browser version, go to http://presto.cc.oberlin.edu/.  (PRESTO is also available from the www.oberlin.edu home page, Oberlin Online, and the online catalog.) 

  • Click on the light bulb icon at the PRESTO home page.
  • Your User ID is your T#; your PIN is your password for PRESTO. (This is NOT your Obie ID and password.) If you have forgotten your T#, please contact Sheila Harley for assistance. If you have forgotten your PIN, you may log onto PRESTO using your T number and click on the “Forgot PIN” button. You will be asked to answer your “security question” and then you can select a new PIN. Please remember to: ALWAYS CAPITALIZE THE T IN YOUR T#.
  • Click on the FACULTY AND ADVISORS link. 
  • At the next menu, choose the OBERLIN FINAL GRADES link. 
  • You will initially be asked to identify a term (Spring Semester 2012); please note that the default semester may be Fall Semester 2012 when you submit your grades so you will need to scroll through the selections to choose the correct semester. The courses for which you are listed as primary instructor will then be available.
  • Choose the course in the SELECT CRN (course reference number) pull down menu.  Registered students will be presented in alphabetical order for the CRN submitted.

How to Record Grades 

To report a grade, simply choose the appropriate grade from the pull-down menu located next to each student's name.  The appropriate grades for the student will be presented. Every student must receive a grade. 

If your course has writing or quantitative proficiency-half credit, you will need to record the proficiency as a Yes or No, depending on your evaluation of the student's work.

How to Complete the Grade Submission

When you are finished reporting grades for the particular CRN, click the Submit button near the bottom of the page. You will receive a confirmation: “Update successful. XX (the number of grades you submitted) Grades were posted.”  If a second page exists for your class list, you will see a link for the sets of records (e.g., 26-50) at the top and the bottom of the page. Click on the correct link for the next set of grades; you will receive an informational message (“Page was processed. No grades were posted.”) and then you will be taken to the next page. 

Do you have more grades to record?
If you have another class and want to record the grades for it, at the bottom of the page is a link “Return to Previous”. This will take you back to the Menu and from there you can click on the CRN Selection step where you can select another CRN. When you select the next CRN, you will be returned to the main menu.  From there, you will need to select the final grades link again. 

If you do not have grades to record, please remember to exit PRESTO by clicking on the EXIT link at the top of the page. Clicking on the EXIT link logs you off which insures no one else may enter grades using your T Number and PIN. 

Notes
You do not need to put anything in the two columns at the far right of the screen (Date Last Attended MM/DD/YYYY and Attend Hours 0-999.99).

  • Time Limit: There is a 45 minute time limit in PRESTO; any keystroke (including selecting a grade from the pull down window) will reset the clock.
  • Reset: A reset button is provided for you in the event that you find you have made an error while recording grades on a page. The reset button will reset all grades on that page to blank; however, once you hit the submit button, the grades are recorded and cannot be reset. You can make changes to individual grades, however, as long as it is before 11:30 pm on May 30.  To change a grade or grades, use the pull down window, select the correct grade, and click on submit.  You will receive a confirmation message with information as to how many grades were “posted.”