1) NOTES:  Only the instructor of record will be granted access to posting grades online.  At this time, administrators, department chairs or anyone other than the instructor of record will be denied access to posting grades for a class that is not theirs. 

2) Go to:   http://marlin.laccd.edu/district/grants_and_programs/instructors.htm

3) Click on "assign grades to students." 

4) Enter your DEC User ID (In most cases, this is the first 6 letters of your last name, or fewer letters if your entire last name is less than six letters, followed by your first initial and, if you have one, your middle initial. – Example:  the DEC User ID for John Q. Public would be PUBLICJQ. 

5) Click on the blue “OK” button (pressing “Enter” or the “Return Key” will NOT work!) 

6) Enter your DEC Password   -     If you are a current DEC user, you already have a password that will also work for this purpose. 
- If you are NOT a current, authorized DEC user, use your employee number for your DEC password. 
- If neither of the options above allow you to continue, contact Management Information Systems (MIS) in A102, ext. 437, to obtain an Information System Access Request and Agreement form. 

7) Click on the blue “OK to proceed to the instructor menu” button. 

8) On the next available screen, follow the instructions to select the College, Year, and Semester of the class for which you want to submit grades. 

9) Click on the blue “OK” button. 

10) Enter the specific section number of the class containing the student(s), and the sequence option to display the student information. 

11) Click the blue “OK" button to submit the request.. 

12) The next screen you see should be your students and directions on how to post grades.  You must enter a grade for every student in the class for the process to work.  If you want to give a student an incomplete, you need to enter "I" in the grade colum and enter a default letter grade in the second column.  When you have given every student a grade, click on the OK button at the bottom of the page. 

13) After a few seconds, the computer will return with the results of your submission.  It will list all of the students in your class along with the grades you wanted to give them.  Or it will tell you what errors you need to correct.  Once you have succeeded in giving all students their grades, there will be directions to PRINT the page, SIGN it and submit it to the registration office.  You can staple that printed form to the normal grade sheet and submit them together to Registration.  Do not bubble in the normal grade form if you submit grades electronically. 

14) You may then chose to view another course roster or exclude students, or submit grades for another class or exit the system.

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