How to Enter Grades through go.sfu.ca
Navigate to: www.go.sfu.ca
Enter your SFU e-mail log in (do not include @sfu.ca) and your SFU e-mail password
Click on Instructor Information (or Learning Management Home – both links will take you to the
grade rosters)
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Click on the ‘Record Grades link
Your name should appear where you see “Course Instructor” below.
Click on the term (semester) link.
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Click on the Course Title link
The grade roster will display. Do not change the Approval Status at this point.
Enter your grades in the grade input column and click the ‘Save’ button at the
bottom of the page. The notes link creates notes that will appear on the
student’s transcript and should not be used by instructors.
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When all of the grades have been entered, and you are ready to ‘lock the grade roster’ for the
approval of the person authorized to approve grades, set the Approval Status to ‘Ready for
Review, and click the
button at the bottom of the page again.
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If you don’t click’ SAVE , and navigate out of the grade roster page you will see the following
message:
If you click ‘;Yes’ or ‘Cancel’ you will go back to the grade roster page and you can Save the
grades. If you click ‘No’ the grades that you have entered will not be saved.
Similarly if you click the ‘sign out’ link on the top right hand side of the web page
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and then click Cancel at the prompt, your grades will not be saved.
If you do not want to enter all the grades in one session, then leave the ‘Approval status’ at ‘Not
Reviewed’ and click the SAVE button. As long as the Approval Status is ‘Not Reviewed’ you
can go back and enter or change grades that have already been entered.
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If, after you have entered your grades, and you click the ‘Save’ button, one or more of the grade
fields is red and you get an ‘Invalid Value’ message, then you have entered a grade that is not a
grade that can be used. .
You can use the magnifying glass to look up the grades that are valid for that course
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If you go into the Lookup Grade Input page, you can click on any of the letter grades to select it
or you can click the Cancel button to return to the grade roster and enter a valid grade.
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When you have finished grade entry, be sure to change the approval status to ‘Ready for
review’ & SAVE.
If you change the Approval Status before you have entered all the grades, you will receive the
following error message:
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You should click OK, set the Approval Status back to ‘Not Reviewed’ enter the grades, and
when all the grades have been entered, THEN change the status to ‘Ready for Review’.
You can now sign out or choose the ‘Select a Different Class’ link.
Troubleshooting:
If you set the Approval Status to ‘Ready for Review’ before you have entered the grades, even if
you enter all the grades on the roster and then try to ‘save’ you will still get the error message
shown below. You should set the roster back to ‘Not Reviewed’, then change it to Ready for
Review, and save.
Important Note: Once the Approval Status has been set to ‘Ready for Review’ and the roster
has been saved, you can no longer change the grades. If you need to change a grade at this
point, you should ask the person who is authorized to ‘approve’ grades to set the status back to
‘Not Reviewed’ so that you can change the grade, or ask the person with ‘approval’ authority to
change the grade. After the grades have been approved, they are ‘Posted’ by either the
Registrar’s office or the Office of Graduate Studies. Once they have been posted they can no
longer be changed on line. At that point, a Change of Grade form must be submitted to the
Registrar’s Office, for undergraduate grades, or to Graduate Studies for graduate grades.
When the grades have been posted, students can see them on line.
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