Policy Notes

One option students have to fulfill the CASE GCC requirement is a full semester-length study abroad program. Students who successfully complete a full semester (or more) abroad in a program sponsored by Indiana University Education Abroad will satisfy CASE GCC. This means most summer programs (e.g., an 8 week program) and all programs lasting only one or a few weeks (e.g., over Spring Break, 2 weeks in May, etc.) will not suffice to fulfill this requirement.

Important GCC & Study Abroad Note: Currently, no exchange program hosted by the College, SOAAD, HLS, or MSCH qualifies to fulfill the CASE GCC requirement by virtue of doing the program (and this is likely not to change). Some College and School programs may offer a course that carries CASE GCC.

If students have questions about whether or not a program (as a program) is qualified to satisfy CASE GCC, please refer them to Education Abroad.

Caution: IUB GenEd has a different sets of rules for what overseas study programs students can use to fulfill the WLC requirement via the international experience option. Please consult IUB's requirement page for details. [March 29, 2023]

BL-ACA-H30 is the Bloomington Campus policy adopted by the Bloomington Faculty Council which pertains to all students on the Bloomington Campus, and which our Undergraduate Bulletin policy statement refers to.

Advising Notes:
When considering application of the Extended-X policy toward student records, we should adhere to the guidance provided in the Bloomington Campus policy. Here are some key factors to be aware of: 

• Students must be currently enrolled in the course before they can submit a petition to apply the Extended-X Policy to it. Please note that students currently enrolled in a repeat course may wish to be sure they will earn a higher grade in the repeat before applying for Extended-X. Once a grade is replaced with an X, the student may never count that course towards degree reuqirements, regardless of its original grade.
• Students may retake any course in which they earned a grade lower than an "A" and apply the Extended-X policy to that course.
• Students may apply the Extended-X policy no more than three times, totaling no more than 10 credit hours.
• Students may now (as of summer 2025) apply the Extended-X policy to a course more than once, as long as it is applied no more than three times, totaling no more than 10 credit hours.
• Students can opt to exercise this policy at any time up until graduation. In other words, they can repeat several courses and then decide later on which courses to "X." The deadline for submitting the extended-x petition prior to graduation is listed in the College bulletin.
• A grade in a given course may be awarded with an indication of academic misconduct, in the form of an asterisk. If the asterisk indicating that a grade was awarded as a result of academic misconduct is present, then the grade may not be replaced via a grade forgiveness policy. Advisors may view the asterisk using the SIS Administrative Center, Academics 2 tab, View Grades.
• The student-facing Extended-X petition and policy information is posted in the College's Student Portal. 
• Students who wish to see the status of a pending Extended-X petition, may log into the College's website. 

Historical notes:

Prior to Summer 2025, the College did not allow students to apply Extended-x to the same course more than once. In Summer 2025 that policy was updated to allow students to apply Extended-x to the same course more than once, as long as other limits are honored (no more than three times total, no more than 10 credit hours total).

Prior to Fall 2021, the College did not honor the Extended-X policy. Transcripts finalized before that date will show the College and Program GPAs inclusive of the first and second grades earned in a course for which a student exercised the Extended-X policy. On September 17, 2021, the College sent an Announcement to current students notifying them of the change in policy and how it would retroactively affect the calculations of their Program and College GPAs. 

Advisors can use this page to determine whether a student they are meeting with has a FERPA Release of Information on file for IU Bloomington. They can also send students a student link to this page to complete a FERPA ROI if they want a parent, guardian, or other participant to take part in their advising session.

Fresh Start through Academic Renewal provides a pathway for former students with low grades to resume their studies and complete their IU Bloomington degree. It serves to put returning students on a "comparable GPA platform as transfer students," where previous academic work counts toward degree requirements but is not included in the GPA calculations.

Fresh Start is complex, with specific eligibility requirements and application deadlines. The Office of Undergraduate Retention and Achievement is your resource for questions, in addition to the valuable information they have compiled in this January 24, 2023, presentation. 

Refer eligible students to the retention team.

Process

Reminders

• Late withdrawal petitions are reviewed by student’s academic unit, not unit in which course is offered​
• Late W petitions are only approved by the College in cases of urgent reasons beyond the student’s control​
• Few Late W petitions are approved; encourage students to make decisions before Auto W deadlines​
• Please do not encourage students to withdraw from individual classes after the AutoW deadline if there are not circumstances beyond their control​
• The desire to avoid a low grade or realization that the course is no longer needed is not a reason for a Late W ​
• Approval of a Late W petition does not guarantee a grade of W in the enrollment 

The Pass/Fail Policy statement may be found in the College bulletin. 

Students who wish to see the status of a pending pass/fail petition, may log into the College's website. 

Prerequisites that do not indicate a grade are assumed to be completion of the course(s) with a passing grade. So P grades can be used to satisfy prerequisites unless a grade higher than D- is indicated or otherwise prohibited by policy.

Pass/Fail Prerequisite Example: There is no indication of a minimum grade in the prerequisite courses for  MATH-D 116 or MATH-M 106. There is no policy conflict if a student take MATH-J 111 as P/F and moving onto D 116 or M 106 (unlike MATH-J 112, which has a C- or higher prerequisite). It is appropriate to share advice and concern that students may not try as hard if all they need to meet is D- threshold, but there is no policy to stop them from taking the course P/F, so long as they do not intend to take MATH-J 112. [Sept. 21, 2021]