Introduction

Welcome to GradesFirst, your home for staying connected with your advisors, tutors, and professors.  The staffs at both UWF and GradesFirst hope you enjoy using this software and find it essential to helping you manage your daily student activities.  Within this application you will find a powerful combination of features that focus on helping UWF staff assist you so that you may achieve all of your collegiate goals.

Among other things, GradesFirst allows students to

• Request and schedule appointments with advisors and tutors without having to contact or visit these offices
• Integrate Google Calendar with GradesFirst so that you can have all of your calendars in one place

GradesFirst and Google Calendar

When you integrate your Google Calendar with GradesFirst, your tutors and advisors will be able to schedule appointments for you without your having to contact those offices.  Since some offices already require students to integrate their calendars and set their availability, you should save yourself some time and effort by reviewing both of the links below as soon as you can:

• Integrating GradesFirst with Google Calendar – Follow these procedures so that you can see your class schedule, tutoring appointments, and advising appointments in your Google Calendar.
• Integrating Google Calendar with GradesFirst – Follow these procedures so that tutors, professors, and advisors can see when you're available and when you're busy.  They will not be able to see the details of the events that you created in Google Calendar.

Advising Centers

One of the features of GradesFirst is to allow students to schedule and request appointments with their advisors, and to make sure that the process for scheduling and requesting appointments with one advisor or department is the same as the process for other advisors and departments.  As of August 2014, the following UWF advising centers and academic departments are the only ones using GradesFirst:

• First Year Advising Center (FYAC)
• Department of Criminal Justice

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Please contact directly any advising centers and academic departments not listed above.

Tutoring Centers

Another feature of GradesFirst is to allow students to schedule and request appointments with their tutors, and to make sure that the process for scheduling and requesting appointments with a tutor from a particular UWF tutoring service is the same as the process for tutors from other tutoring services.  As of August 2014, the only UWF tutoring service that allows students to schedule and request appointments through GradesFirst is the Academic Center for Excellence.

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Other UWF Tutoring Centers

There are two other UWF tutoring services:  the Mathematics and Statistics Tutoring Lab and the Writing Lab.  Please contact these services directly if you would like to receive help from them.

NOTE:  Some professors may require their students to visit specific UWF tutoring centers, so check with your professor to be sure you are visiting the correct tutoring service.