Student Grade Submission Using CUNYfirst

Grading via Faculty Self-Service

Dear Spring 2025 Faculty,

Grading via Faculty Self-Service will be available for the Spring 2025 session beginning Friday, May 16 (12:01am) through Tuesday, May 27 (11:59pm).

Baruch’s online grading system via CUNYfirst allows you to submit final grades from on- or off-campus. Once you have entered, reviewed, and saved your grade roster, you must then click on submit grades to the Registrar which will prompt the “POST” button; you must click on “POST” for your final grades to be officially submitted. Once you have posted your grades, the students will be able to view them instantaneously via CUNYfirst Student Self-Service.

Starting Wednesday, May 28, grades need to be submitted via our revised post-deadline submission policy. Please print the CUNYfirst version of your grade roster as a PDF (do not download the grade roster to Excel, copy the grades to Word, or use any other format, as these will not be accepted). Record the grades, sign the document, and email it from your Baruch email address to GradeRosters@Baruch.cuny.edu. Once your roster has been posted, any request for change(s) to a grade(s) must be initiated via the new online Grade Change process on CUNYfirst.

Failure to submit and post your grades on time will cause great inconvenience to our students:

Some of your courses are pre-requisites for summer/fall 2025 courses.
Failure to submit and post your grades on time may delay the conferral of a student’s degree.
Rosters not submitted delay the distribution of financial aid packages.
Students depend on their company tuition reimbursement plan to meet their tuition payment obligation to the college.

Claiming Your CUNYfirst Account:
You must claim your CUNYfirst account to submit your grades. Please click on the following links to claim your account, if you have not already done so:

Grading Instructions and Grading Scale/Definitions:

A WU should not be assigned to undergraduate students solely on the basis of missing the final exam.
The instructor must be able to reasonably determine that the student ceased participating prior to the culminating academic experience of the course (e.g., final exam, final paper, project).

WU – A grade of WU is to be assigned to undergraduate students who participated in an academic activity related to the class at least once, stopped participating, did not drop the class or receive approval for an incomplete, did not otherwise officially withdraw from the course, and did not complete enough work for the instructor to be able to calculate an earned grade using the criteria delineated in the course syllabus.

A “WU” grade should never be given in place of an “F” grade. The “F” grade is an earned grade based on poor performance and the student not meeting the learning objectives/outcomes of the course throughout the entire academic term/session.

Should you encounter technical problems while using the CUNYfirst Self-Service system, please contact the Computing and Technology Help Desk at HelpDesk@Baruch.cuny.edu.

Questions regarding grading policies should be directed to GradeRosters@Baruch.cuny.edu.

Thank you.

Ken Eng
Associate Registrar