FAQ Grade Entry

1. Log in to campusnet. If you have trouble with this, such as a forgotten password, you can get in touch with campus.net@constructor.university (despite the ominous sounding ticket system, the administrator generally replies quickly).

2. Select the module that you wish to grade. Please note that students are generally graded on a module basis. Accordingly, you can find the grade entry under “my modules” instead of “my courses”. Only some exceptional classes may be graded on a course basis instead.

3. Once you have the module information in front of you, click on “grade input” in the top right corner. Here you may be able to choose between different partial grades (exam, lab report etc.) and the different rounds i.e. attempts.

4. Click on the correct one and enter the grade for each student. Alternatively, you can import from an excel file, see below.

5. Under “final grade” you can see the grade campusnet automatically generates based on the entered grades and their weightings.

6. In the top right corner, you can see the options “close”, “save” and “release”. Click on “close” to simply leave the grade input window (your entered grades are lost). Click on “save” to save the grades you have entered. Use this option if you are only making notes, or are not yet finished with the grade input.

7. Once you have finished entering the grades for one particular list, click on “release”. This means you can no longer make changes to the grades (see FAQ below for trouble-shooting), so do this if they are final from your side.

8. Print the grade sheet either on paper on into a pdf file. Mark the excused students (see below), missed module achievements etc. and feel free to leave an explanatory note if there is some kind of special case. If you send us a digital file, you can of course add this information in the e-mail message instead.

9. Submit this list to Registrar Services. Via e-mail as an attachment is perfectly sufficient. 

First, follow the steps 1 -3 above and choose the correct partial grade and grading round. Then click on “Export” and right click (!) on “Download list”. Go to “save as…” and select the place where to save the list. Save.

Open the file you have saved. Fill in the grades under “Noten” in column F. Make sure to use percentages (or in exceptional cases another applicable grading system) and make sure to format the cells correctly, so that excel doesn’t change numbers into dates or similar. Save as a *.txt file

Then go back to the grade input in campusnet. Go on “Import” and select the correct file via “Browse”. Click on “Import”. Cross-check the imported grades and check “accept” for each grade that you wish to import the way it is shown. Finally, click on “Apply”.

Almost all assessments/examinations at Constructor University are graded with percentage grades. These are percentages from 0% - 100%, with a 45% being the lowest passing grade. Please grade your students on this scale for each assessment (i.e. written examination, term paper, lab report etc.).
The grades of the module’s assessments are then combined into a final module grade on a numerical grading scale with grades from 5.00 (failing grade) to 1.00 (highest possible grade). This is calculated automatically by the campusnet system based on the percentage grades entered for each assessment and their respective weighting for the final grade. Generally, you will not need to check or change these final module grades – unless you have a bonus regulation in your module (see “How do I enter a bonus for my students?”).
Very few classes at this university use different grading schemes – either a pass/fail scheme in which “pass” and “fail” are the only grades you are able to enter, or assessments that are graded directly with numerical grades. Those are all exceptions. You can find the grading tables on the Academic Policies website: Academic policies | Constructor University but please note that anything other than percentage grades will almost definitely not be relevant to the class you teach.

Generally, the final module grade is calculated by campusnet based on the weightings of the grading components. Please enter your grades in the grading list of the grading component (e.g. “written exam”) and not in the general grading list for the module! You should be able to adjust the final grade if you wish to give a bonus, for example. If this does not work, you can also make a note with your printout and we can change the student’s final grade.
If you believe the grading components in campusnet are incorrect, please contact Educational Resource Planning. However, the components that are laid out in the module handbook are binding so you can’t change them at will.

Grades in Campusnet are not official until they have been “published”. This is done by Registrar Services once we receive your confirmation. If you skip the step of the printout/file, the students do not officially have a grade for your class (and they can’t see one, either). This means they do not have the credits for this module, it doesn’t factor into their GPA, and we cannot let them graduate as long as even one of their grades is not published.

As of Spring 2026, you are no longer required to keep track of official excuses for your students. Official excuses for the centrally planned examinations are tracked and processed entirely on the side of Registrar Services after we receive your grade list. 

If a student is absent but does not have a valid official excuse, the decision of whether or not to excuse them is up to you as the instructor. They may have a legitimate reason for missing an exam that does not qualify for an official excuse. In these cases, it is your decision how strict or lenient you would like to be. If you want to excuse a student from your side, please just indicate this to us when you submit your grades. Please note that only absent students can be excused; they cannot be excused if they have attempted the examination! 

If your module is assessed with an assessment other than a written examination, such as a presentation or term paper, you can also decide to excuse students from this assessment or deadline at your own discretion. Please inform us of such excuses along with your grades. 

If your module includes a bonus regulation, please enter the original grade for the assessment in the respective grading list and then adjust the numerical module grade to reflect the bonus if necessary.
For example: a module is assessed with one written examination. A student has achieved 83% in this exam, which would correspond to a final module grade of 2.00. Campusnet will generate a 2.00 for this student. However, this student has also achieved a bonus which elevates her final grade to 1.67 instead. Then please enter 83% as her examination grade, then go into the list of the final module grades (called “first round” etc.) and adjust the 2.00 for this student to 1.67.

This is essentially the same thing as official excuses, just for a different assessment. Mark them as excused/incomplete/pending/late submission on your list, anything that makes the situation clear. We will register the student into the next grading round. This allows you to enter his/her grade later but all the others can already receive their grades. Of course this also works if there are several students affected. 

We have regulations for each assessment type, which will provide you with a guideline but often also leave some flexibility. The overview can be found here under “examination timelines”: Examination | Constructor University

Please let us know their grade (add it on the printout, write an e-mail, etc.) and we will investigate the case. If the grade can be considered, we will take care of the grade entry for you.

However, first please just check if they are not simply a retaker and appear in an open grading list from a previous semester.

Students always receive their grade in the course/module where they were registered originally. So if a student was registered in Fall 2018, this is where the grade goes even if he sits the exam in the Fall 2019 semester.

Please identify the correct course or module (correct semester), click on grade entry and choose the correct partial grade (e.g. final exam). You should now see several “rounds” of grades. When a student is excused or has failed in the first round, he is added to the second round. You can enter your grades in this list. The most recent list should always contain all students of that semester who are eligible for the make-up or re-take. You can print/pdf-ize this list as usual and submit it to us.

Students are always obliged to sit any examination the next time it is offered. So if there are any students who were supposed to show up for this make-up exam and failed to appear, please indicate them as excused or not excused, as usual.

Generally, nothing. It is handled on our side.

In case you are interested (or receive student questions), a short explanation follows. 

Most modules at CU consist of only one assessment. If they fail this assessment, they can retake it up to two more times (i.e. three attempts in total). They will be registered for the next attempt, generally in the following exam period, automatically when you submit a failing grade for them. In modules with more than one assessment, students either have to pass both assessments (and consequently have to retake one if they fail it) or have to pass with an average grade of the two assessments (in which case a fail in your exam may be balanced out by a good passing grade in the other one, so that they do not need to retake anything). If you are not sure which one applies to your particular module, you can check the module data sheet in the handbook on the Constructor website. If a student fails or misses more than once, their next attempt is in the following year when the class is taught again. They will be registered there with an audit status in order to have access to the class, but of course they are still graded in their “original” module.

A student who has failed three attempts may not attempt the examination again.

General information on when/how students are expected to retake examinations and other assessments can be found here under “Examination timelines”: Examination | Constructor University

The time frames for grading are very tight and we are aware of this. Please note that the submission deadlines are set years in advance (visible in the Academic Calendar on the website) and you can use this to plan your semester accordingly.

If there are good reasons for a delay, for example illness, you can of course get in touch and we’ll negotiate a reasonable new deadline.

Please note that these grading deadlines all serve a purpose and should be handled strictly. For example, the grades for the Fall semester are due in mid-January because the make-up period starts in late January and students need to know before that whether they have failed an exam and need to take its make-up. Similarly, the grades for the make-up period are due in mid-February because course registration for the Spring semester ends in mid-February/late February and students need to have the grades for pre-requisite courses from the Fall in order to register in the Spring.

Even a delay of one day in your grade submission may mean that a student cannot prepare adequately for their next exam or cannot register for a following module. 

Please cooperate with us on this.

This happens all the time, no worries. There are several options.

If only 1-2 students have an incorrect grade, just mark them with your grade list somehow (for example cross out the grade and write the new one next to it) and we’ll change it when we process the list. This saves you some work.

If more students are affected, for example because the grades were incorrectly imported and all lab report grades are now wrong, you can ask us to “un-release” the grades. That re-opens the grade entry for you and you can make changes again.

Once a grade is already published, which it probably will be if you’ve already handed in your printout, only we can make changes. The easiest way to do this is to submit a grade adjustment form to us (you can find this on our website), on which you simply enter which grade needs to be changed and then sign at the bottom. If too many students are affected and you don’t want to have to fill out a form for every single one, you can instead hand in a new grade sheet for the whole class with the corrections on it. In that case, please mark them as corrections somehow so that we’ll notice the changes.

You are probably checking under "my courses" instead of "my modules".

If you are checking the correct place but this error message still appears, it may be a mistake in the way the module/course is modeled in campusnet. Please contact Educational Resource Planning to find the error and fix it.

Generally, a student is automatically added into the exam list/grading list when he registers for the course or module. In some cases, this does not happen due to an incorrect registration or a change in the student’s study status. If you have grades for students who don’t appear in the list, please send them to Registrar Services for investigation. If the student was eligible to take this examination, we will make sure the grade is considered. Please note that retakers from previous years will be visible in the grade list from their year, not in the current one (see above). 
Auditing students who only take your module component/course out of interest do not receive grades; in these cases it is correct that they don't appear in the grading list.

These are probably students who accidentally registered incorrectly – a student needs to register first to the module and then to the module components (the courses inside the module). Sometimes students accidentally skip the second step. 

Since students are graded on a module basis, they need to receive a grade as long as they are registered to the module itself. This sometimes works in their favor and sometimes against it. Of course you can grade a student who never participated with 0%, but please don’t leave their grade slot blank.

Please indicate them to us. We will make sure they are taken out of future exam lists and need to retake the module from scratch.

No. Passed examinations can't be retaken.

In the Spring semester, the grades for graduating students have priority, so that those students can receive their diplomas as quickly as possible during the semester. 

By uploading an evaluation form for them into Moodle.

Constructor University’s Moodle can be found here: https://elearning.constructor.university 

When you log in to Moodle, you will find one or several classes named Thesis + study program (e.g. “Thesis IRPH”) where the students from this program are listed. Students upload their thesis into Moodle where you can download it for grading.
Moodle will also provide you with a similarity percentage/“plagiarism check” and an AI check via a Turnitin plugin.

In Moodle, you will find a simple evaluation form (slightly different ones for Bachelor thesis and Master thesis). Please fill this out for your thesis supervisee and upload it into the respective folder. Registrar Services will retrieve it from there and process the grade. For theses that are assessed outside of the usual timeframe for some reason, you are also welcome to submit the evaluation forms to us via e-mail instead.

You can find more detailed instructions for grading on Moodle itself. If any Moodle-specific questions remain, kindly address registrar@constructor.university or refer to the information e-mails sent out by Registrar Services.

In almost all Bachelor and Master study programs, a thesis presentation or defense is mandatory in addition to the written thesis. The grading of this presentation will depend on the study program. 

This depends.
Students are expected to upload either the final version or at least a draft version of their thesis by this deadline; failure to do so completely does indeed result in one failing grade.
However, if they do submit a draft version, they can still submit their final version to you after the mid-May deadline without further consequences. Bachelor students have a maximum resubmission period of six weeks to submit their final thesis, which means until the end of June. Master students have a maximum resubmission period of three months, which means the end of August. You are welcome to give your supervisee an earlier resubmission deadline.

No problem. They can still use Moodle to upload during the resubmission period and all the above grading instructions still apply. You do not have to inform us when you give such an extension. Of course students cannot receive their diploma until they have passed the thesis module. 
The student will just need to make sure to upload a draft version of the thesis to Moodle by the mid-May deadline, and to upload their final version by the end of resubmission period: end of June for Bachelor students, end of August for Master students.