Academic Assessment

Academic Assessment means the determination of your final level of achievement in a specific course or graduate student milestone, and includes: grades; credit or fail designations; and, if specified in a course outline, assessments of all aspects of professional behaviour [See the definition section (Section 3.1) of the Student Misconduct and Academic Appeals Policy]

For information about appeal terminology and for FAQs, please click here.  For information on the appeal process and timelines, please click here.

In order to appeal a faculty’s decision regarding your Academic Assessment, you must first complete the reappraisal process of the Faculty that offered the course. This process must include receiving a decision from the faculty’s Faculty Appeals Committee.  For more information regarding the faculty’s Academic Assessment appeal process, please consult the academic regulations in the University of Calgary Calendar or the Graduate Calendar (specifically, those sections on reappraisal of grades and appeals to faculty appeals committees).  Please also contact your faculty for any faculty specific reappraisal or appeal procedures.

To appeal a Faculty Appeals Committee decision regarding your Academic Assessment, please review the Student Misconduct and Academic Appeals Policy and the University Appeals Committee Procedure.  For appeals of Faculty Appeals Committee decisions regarding your Academic Assessment, you may only submit an appeal where:

• You have relevant new information that could not have been presented to the Faculty Appeals Committee, and that may have affected the Faculty Appeals Committee decision if it had been presented,
• the Faculty Appeals Committee decision was made in a procedurally unfair way [refer to the definition of “procedural fairness” in the Student Misconduct and Academic Appeals Policy, or
• there was a reasonable apprehension of bias on the part of a person who made the Faculty Appeals Committee decision [See Section 5.6 of the University Appeals Committee Procedure.

You are responsible to satisfy the University Appeals Committee that your evidence or position is more likely than not to have occurred or to be accurate.  This is referred to as the balance of probabilities standard of proof [See Section 4.11 of the University Appeals Committee Procedure and the FAQ page for more information]. Note that feeling dissatisfied with a decision is not a ground of appeal.

The University Appeals Committee is the final level of appeal at the University for appeals involving Academic Assessments.