Hunter
03/27/20
The University of Iowa, along with Iowa State and UNI, have announced temporary lenient grading options for the spring 2020 semester.
According to the Cedar Rapids Gazette, both UI and ISU undergrads can either take the letter grade their instructor records, or choose a pass/nonpass option. This gives students who might not perform as well as they believe they could have with in-classroom instruction compared to online instruction still pass the class.
UI graduate students have the option of taking the letter grade or satisfactory/unsatisfactory options.
At the University of Northern Iowa, they already have a credit/no credit option but have expanded the use of the option toward any graduation requirement.
The Gazette also says that University of Iowa students now have more time to drop courses or completely withdraw, extending the deadline for both to May 8th. Administrators are still determining whether summer classes will also be made available exclusively online, saying they will have that decision by next Friday, April 3rd.
All three universities say they will modify student transcripts to indicate the unprecedented environment they had to go through during this semester.
