Plan and grade analysis reports
A page within Institutional Research, Assessment & Planning (IRAP)
Departments (chairs or administrative assistants) can run their own plan reports to generate email lists for majors and minors and/or run reports on departmental grade distributions. Reports are emailed to the user's account.
The menu path in Wings for running plan reports and grade analysis reports is UW-La Crosse --> Records and Enrollment --> Reporting. Within the reporting menu, options for Plan Reports, Grade Analysis Report, Grade Analysis by Department are available. For more instructions on how to run these reports, please see the "Records & Departments" group in Microsoft Teams that is managed by Records & Registration.
What are these reports?
Plan reports, or a list of students enrolled in the majors and minors for departments, are the best way to generate up-to-date lists of student emails (and other information) by major, minor or plan. The instructions for how to generate the reports are above the spreadsheets and easily edited to create a contact list.
Note: When emailing your students, we ask you put their emails in the BCC line. You must still request email lists from Institutional Research when students or instructors are conducting research, and you cannot distribute these lists to individuals outside your department.
In addition, grade distribution reports are used for many important University activities:
- to reflect on a promotion/retention candidate's grade distributions listed on their TAI in relation to the entire department.
- to provide individual instructors and staff with data specific to their individual courses in comparison to the department results to help facilitate their understanding of the departmental norms;
- to make new instructors and staff aware of the department's distributions prior to their development of grading criteria for their courses;
- to monitor trends in the department's distributions over time, with particular attention to grade inflation;
- to compare distributions across sections of the same course and encourage discussions among faculty/IAS with regard to variances that may be reduced;
- to compare the grade distributions of IAS and faculty; and,
- to compare the grade distributions between general education and major courses to monitor any discrepancies that may be of concern to the department.
Please direct comments or questions to Grace Engen.
