Undergraduate Affairs
The S-U grade is based on your instructor’s grading schema for the course, no differently from the basis for your letter grade.
Courses that ended before March 9, 2020 are not eligible for S-U grading. The ONE.UF online form will display eligible graduate courses with a selection for S/U grading.
Colleges and faculty are responsible for determination of eligibility. Faculty are responsible for assessing students’ performance in their courses and may feel that they can fulfill their responsibility of assessment of their students only by means of letter grading.
To receive a letter grade for the course, do not submit a request to change the grading framework.
Yes. We do encourage you to think about which courses you have found most difficult to handle in the transition and also how having some courses graded S-U and others letter-graded might appear to someone reviewing your transcript in the future. Your Supervisory Committee Chair or Graduate Coordinator will be best positioned to help you consider best options based on your future intentions.
Yes, you will be allowed to choose S-U grading in this Spring 2020 semester only. Regardless of whether you choose to have S-U grading for all or selected courses, your academic probation period will be extended by one semester, unless you earn letter grades sufficient to be removed from your academic probation status.
No. Once you hit the “submit” button, your form will be routed directly to the Registrar.
Please consult information provided by your department via email, web site, etc., and/or your Supervisory Committee Chair or Graduate Coordinator before you make a decision. Opting for S-U grading may indeed have serious negative consequences on your career goals, including but not limited to your admission to graduate or professional schools, as well as your ability to sit for professional exams.
Yes. You may choose more than one eligible course. You may also choose selected eligible courses for S-U grading and leave other eligible courses letter-graded.
No. Once you submit your S-U grading change request form, the action cannot be undone. You will not be permitted to change back to letter grades for those courses you’ve requested.
Yes, with approval from your Supervisory Committee Chair, Graduate Coordinator, and college.
No, since S-U grades are not calculated into your GPA, they cannot change your probation status.
Yes, your probation status will be extended by one semester.
Requirements for an S-U are the same as the letter-graded course. To move forward to subsequent courses, a student must earn a C or better in an S-U-graded course. Please consult your Supervisory Committee Chair or Graduate Coordinator about specific course expectations under the S-U grading framework.
You are advised to continue full participation in the class even if you have opted for S-U grading. Remember that material learned in this class will likely be critical for you to successfully transition to more advanced classes. Also remember that the S grade means you scored numerically to an equivalent of C or better, based on your instructor’s grading scale outlined in the course syllabus. While this eases the pressure of trying to earn an A or B, you still must perform well enough to reach the C mark for the class. This means that you will still need to be aware of your numerical grades on your assignments, exams, and other graded work.