Great Plains IDEA Coordinator
Amanda Gnadt serves as the K-State Great Plains IDEA Campus Coordinator. She is your contact to K-State and
Great Plains IDEA. To contact Amanda, e-mail gpideacc@ksu.edu, or call 785-532-3965.
Student Acknowledgement Form
Students participating in Great Plains IDEA courses are required to sign a student acknowledgment form. This
form allows the exchange of information between the partnering institutions. All information is shared through
a secure, web-based database.
Dropping a Course
If you need to drop a course you must drop the course in iSIS for the drop to be official. You must notify your
Campus Coordinator (gpideacc@ksu.edu). If the course has begun you must also notify your instructor AND the
Campus Coordinator at the teaching university. Refunds for tuition will be based on K-State’s drop deadlines.
Grades
Some universities participating in the Great Plains IDEA consortium give plusses and minuses (A-, B+, B-, etc.).
These grades will be translated as a straight letter grade when posted on your K-State transcript (i.e., an Abecomes an A; a B+ becomes a B, etc.). The Great Plains IDEA grade translation matrix:
http://www.hsidea.org/students/policies-forms/
Incomplete Grades
An instructor can issue an incomplete for unfinished course work to allow a student to complete the course, but
this work must be completed before the end of the following semester. If it is not, the K-State system will roll
the “I” on your transcript over to an F. If you take an incomplete in a course taught at another institution, it is
your responsibility to follow up with that instructor to make sure the work is completed, and that your grade is
sent to K-State for posting on your transcript.
Program of Study
All Graduate Students must complete a Program of Study after the completion of 9 credit hours. Guidelines for
preparing this form can be found at http://www.k-state.edu/grad/students/preparemasters.html. Contact
the Campus Coordinator for additional assistance in this process. Transfer credits must be approved by the
student’s supervisory committee and the Graduate School.
Final Examination/Project
All K-State Graduate School students are required to complete a final exam or project during the last semester
of study. Final Exam Guidelines for each program can be found at www.k-state.edu/ksugpidea within your
specific program page. It is your responsibility to notify the Campus Coordinator when you enroll for your last
semester, so the proper paperwork can be submitted for graduation clearance.
Graduate School Policies
It is your responsibility to become familiar with Graduate School policies. The Graduate Student Handbook is
available here: http://www.k-state.edu/grad/graduate_handbook/index.html
**Please note: The K-State Graduate School requires that students maintain a 3.0 grade point average.
Contact Information
PLEASE keep your personal information up-to-date. If you have a change of address, e-mail, phone, name, etc.,
log in to iSIS and make the change. Also, please contact the K-State Campus Coordinator at gpideacc@ksu.edu
so that we may update your information in the Great Plains IDEA database.
Student Financial Assistance
To be eligible for financial assistance students must be enrolled in a minimum of five graduate credits. Please
direct all Student Financial Assistance questions to the K-State Financial Aid Office 1-800-818-2287 or www.kstate.edu/sfa.
Students can reach the Veteran’s Affairs Office at: 785-532-7628 or http://www.k-state.edu/veteran/
Disability Support Services Disability Support Services provides a wide range of accommodations and services
to students with documented disabilities. A student with a disability is any student who has a physical or mental
impairment that substantially limits a major activity such as caring for oneself, performing manual tasks,
hearing, speaking, breathing, walking, seeing, learning, or working. To qualify for accommodations, a student
must first register with Disability Support Services. Please contact Jason Maseberg-Tomlinson at
jasontom@ksu.edu or 785-532-6441, or visit their website at http://www.k-state.edu/dss/ for information and
assistance.
E-Mail
Your K-State eID becomes your K-State email address your eID@k-state.edu. All communication from the
university will be sent to your K-State email address. If you do not plan to use this account for email, you will
need to forward this account to the email address you check most often http://eid.k-state.edu
It is your responsibility to keep this contact information up-to-date by changing your password and maintain
your forwarding email address. It is recommended that you use your K-State email account as your link
between K-State, your instructors and yourself. Often other accounts hinder communication because many
course messages are distributed to students as a listserv. These account providers filter these messages as a
potential virus and/or dump them into junk mail.
General E-mail Tips
The following are common issues and suggestions:
 If you change your email address make sure you update your Campus Coordinator.
 Check your Spam and Junk Mail folder for course messages
 Include a subject line in all email correspondence, especially mail sent to Campus Coordinators and
instructors. We receive a high volume of mail, and sometimes a lot of junk, so are likely to delete
message if there is no subject, especially if we do not recognize the email address/name.
 When taking courses through this program, communication is a shared responsibility. You should plan
to check email regularly for messages from your instructor(s) and home institution. We recommend a
minimum of twice per week.