So you've got the grades all ready, but you need to add the results of the final exams. Sign in, pull up the official score page. Transcribe the grades, one by one, into your gradebook.
Lather, rinse, repeat as many times as necessary.
Go back to the gradebook, pull up the final exam results one more time, double-check your entries.
Lather, rinse, repeat as many times as necessary.
Go back to the gradebook, calculate in the penalties by hand as the software isn't set up for that, calculate the final grades.
Lather, rinse, repeat as many times as necessary.
Go through each and every student who is currently calculated as having failed, double-check for errors in marking. Good thing you took copious notes. Check for mitigating circumstances. Check for aggravating factors.
Lather, rinse, repeat as many times as necessary.
Check your classes' bell curves. Look at the grades individually in any class that has an improbable shape. Again.
Enter the final grades into the school's reporting software. Double check that all the scores you're putting into the school's system match the ones in your gradebook.
Lather, rinse, repeat as many times as necessary.
Hit the final "submit" button.
Wait for the grade queries to come in, but at least you know that A) You're right, and B) Your school backs its teachers when they are.
Start on next year's syllabus.
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