Administrator's Plus Report Cards Manual - Rediker Software, Inc.

Chapter 5
Calculate Averages
Blank Report Card Columns
Blank Report Card Columns
This option allows you to erase all entries in one or two report card columns of your
choice, for all grades or one grade level at a time. This includes COMMENT and
ATTENDANCE columns.
After selecting option 2) Blank Report Card Columns from the main Calculate Averages
window, you will see a specification window, at which you will select the grade range
and the report card column(s) to blank. You can use this option to blank one or two report
card columns at a time, for all sections, all-year sections only, semester or quarter
sections You can also choose to blank columns for a range of sections.
One example of a scenario in which this option is useful is after calculating a final
average based on the 1st and 2nd marking period and midyear exam grades, which you
may need to do in order to print a class rank at midyear (assuming you don’t have a
midyear grade column on the report card). You can run the Blank Report Card
Column(s) option to blank the grades in the Final column in order to free up that column
for Final grades at the end of the year.
This option is also often used to blank COMMENT and ABSENCE columns after
importing grades into those columns from Grade Quick. For example, if you do not
import a new comment each marking period, the old comment remains in the column.
You can use Blank Report Card Columns to blank the comments after printing report
cards so that the next time you print report cards, you can be sure that the old comments
will not print. Likewise, if you print absences on the report card, you can blank the
ABSENCE column afterwards, so that the next time you print report cards, the old
attendance information will not print.
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