Incomplete Grades
The University of Washington faculty voted to approve changes to the Scholastic Regulations Chapter 110 Grades, Honors, and Scholarship, Section 1) A) 3) The Grade I in Spring 2024. The changes will go into effect with Incomplete grades assigned for eligible students per the Scholastic Regulations beginning with grading in Autumn 2024. Incomplete grades assigned in Autumn 2024, if not replaced by grades after the grading deadline for Winter 2025, will default to a 0.0 or the grade in progress, and the Incomplete grade will no longer appear on the unofficial and official transcript.
Students eligible to receive an Incomplete grade will be notified in late Autumn of the new Incomplete Grade Request form to be used when asking an instructor to assign an Incomplete starting with Autumn 2024 grading.
Instructors may grant an incomplete grade if the student has done satisfactory work to within three weeks of the last day of the quarter and if circumstances prevent the student from completing the remaining work for the course by the end of the quarter. Instructors are never obligated to grant a student’s request for an Incomplete. Instructors will use the designated process for students to request and for instructors to approve the awarding of an Incomplete grade.
To obtain credit for a course a grade must be submitted by the instructor of the course by the grading deadline per the Academic Calendar for the next subsequent quarter. For Spring quarter, the subsequent quarter is considered to be the Autumn Quarter. This submission is done through the established late grade submission process. The submitted grade will replace the “I” on the transcript. If no grade is submitted the Incomplete will convert to a grade of 0.0 and the “I” will be removed from the official transcript. If a default grade was submitted by the instructor this grade will replace the “I” on the transcript. Courses taken CR/NC will change to a NC.
In no case shall an Incomplete on the record at the time a degree is granted be subsequently changed to any other grade. The grade I shall count neither for registered hours nor in computation of grade-point averages.
Instructors, on behalf of the student, may request an extension for one additional quarter beyond the original grading quarter utilizing the established extension request process.