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The following are instructions for you to submit on-line Absence/Failing Reports on your students.
If you are submitting an Absence/Failing report on a student with the intent of them dropping your class, the deadline for them to drop is generally in October for the Fall semester, and April in the spring semester. Check the Registrar's Academic Calendar for exact dates each semester. However, you may also submit an absence/failing report for a student as soon as a problem arises. If you desire, you may also request the involvement of the undergraduate adviser.
Any time prior to the dates set by the Registrar for a given semester, a student may drop a class without the involvement of their instructor. However, later in the semester students must have the instructor of their course complete a form that indicates whether, at the time the student is dropping the class, they are passing the course or not. If they are not, this failing status will be indicated on their academic record, even if they drop the class.
On-line Absence/Failing Reports System
Faculty, and/or their designated proxies*, can report undergraduate student problems due to poor academic performance and/or attendance through the Absence/Failing Report System.
Absence/Failing reports may be submitted at any time during a semester; if they are received AFTER the Q/F drop or withdrawal deadline, students do not have the option to drop or withdraw except for DOCUMENTED non-academic reasons.
NOTE: once you have logged in, there is a HELP button on the left of your screen
From the list of all current classes for which you are the instructor of record, CLICK on the unique number to go to a specific roster.
For extremely large classes, on high Intranet traffic days, this may take a few minutes to load, so please be patient.
CLICK on "Report" for any student on your roster for which you are submitting an absence/failing report.
Up to three problem descriptions for each student may be assigned by using the drop down menus beside the student's name.
You may also type a brief message to the student in the "Comments" area.
After all designated students have been marked, at the bottom of the page CLICK the box labeled "Process selected records".
You will only have one hour from the time you first log on until you must submit records for processing. If you go beyond the hour, all records you have entered will be lost. It is recommended that if you have large classes, you may want to break them down in some order--alpha or other--to process. This sends the notices to the students' Dean's Office for processing. You will see a page listing the students you selected.
The Dean's Office will notify the students, or, in the case of students from other colleges, their respective dean's offices will make the notification.
AUTHORIZING PROXIES (T.A.s):
You can authorize your T.A. to use this system for your classes. The security is the same as that used for downloading your class rosters via the web. If you have already authorized your T.A. to download your rosters, he/she may also file Absence/Failure reports for you.
You may authorize you T.A. as a proxy through CLIPS.
Scroll down to the area labelled "Specify Proxies" (at the bottom.)
Give the preferred UT EID of the person to authorize, and specify one course unique number for which you are the instructor of record for the semester of interest.
Click the "Specify Proxies" button.
