A new electronic grading system at UW-Madison means most students will get their final grades within a few days of the end of the semester, rather than a few weeks, officials said

A new electronic grading system at UW-Madison means most students will get their final grades within a few days of the end of the semester today, rather than a few weeks, officials said.

“It’s a huge efficiency improvement,” said Registrar Joanne Berg, who developed the Web-based system in the past year with campus computing experts in the Department of Information Technology and a committee of faculty and staff.