Submitting Grades to Pennant

To become part of students’ academic records, students’ official grades must be submitted to Courses@Penn/Pennant (or Instruction Center, for Wharton courses only). Though you may have used the Canvas gradebook to calculate and communicate final grades to students, it does not directly integrate with Pennant.

Students who are auditing or observing your course will not appear in the Pennant gradebook and will not receive a course grade or credit.

Download Your Gradebook

To begin, you should have already downloaded a CSV file of your finalized Canvas gradebook, including final grades in letter grade format. If you have not completed this step, see the End-of-Term Grading Checklist for directions.

Locate Your Course in Pennant

Grading is located in a part of Pennant called Courses@Penn. Go to Courses@Penn and log in with your PennKey and password.
In the Manage My Courses section, click Grade submission & changes.
Select the term from the Term drop-down list.
Select the course from the Course Section drop-down list. The student roster will populate below.

Enter Final Course Grades in Pennant

There are two options for adding final grades: manual entry or file upload. You may select either option based on class size and your preferences.

Option 1: Manual entry

After you have followed the steps above to locate your course in Pennant:

Open the CSV of your finalized gradebook that you downloaded from Canvas.
Locate the column labeled Final Grade (usually the next-to-last column); this should contain letter grades only.
In Pennant, use the drop-down lists in the Grade column to enter a final grade for each student that matches the Final Grade column on the Canvas gradebook CSV.
If you have entered any grades of F or I, you must also enter a date in the Last activity column in Pennant for that student. For Incompletes, another tab will appear where you can also adjust the expiration date and grade to which it will convert if expired.
Click Submit in the top right corner. A warning will appear. Click Submit again.

For more information, see the SRFS guide to grading manual entry.

Option 2: Upload gradebook file

There may be a difference in the order of students between the CSV you download from Canvas and the spreadsheet you download from Pennant. Please check carefully to ensure you are entering each student’s correct grade.

After you have followed the steps above to locate your course in Pennant:

Click the Download button to the top left of the course roster in Pennant and open the Excel file that downloads. This spreadsheet will be pre-populated with your course information, like the example below, except the Grade column will be blank:
Open the CSV of your finalized gradebook that you downloaded from Canvas.
In the Canvas gradebook CSV, locate the column labeled Final Grade (usually the next-to-last column). This should contain letter grades only. Copy only the values (no headers) of this column.
Return to the spreadsheet downloaded from Pennant. Paste the values you just copied from the Canvas gradebook into the Grade column of the Pennant spreadsheet.
If you have entered any grades of F or I, you must also enter a date in the Last activity column for that student. Save the Pennant spreadsheet.
In Pennant, click the Upload button to the top left of the course roster and select the Pennant spreadsheet you just saved. Grades will populate in the Grade column of the roster. If you have entered any Incompletes, another tab will appear where you can also adjust the expiration date and grade to which it will convert if expired.
Click Submit in the top right corner. A warning will appear. Click Submit again.