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

Chapter 6
View/Change/Add/Drop
Viewing and Editing Grades
Manually Editing GPA, Quality Points, Weight & Credits
The Statistical Reports program is used to update a student’s career credits and GPA at
the semester and at the end of the year. The top of the YEAR 0 (current year) view shows
these numbers as of the last time they were updated. Choosing F2: GPA allows you to
manually edit these numbers. Note that this function key is used to edit the GPA
information while viewing a transcript for the current year and to edit attendance
information while viewing a transcript for a previous or “minus” year.
When you first purchase REPORT CARDS PLUS, if you do not want to enter past
courses into the program, this option may be used to manually enter a students’ prior
cumulative career credits and GPA's. While editing these numbers, pressing or clicking
ESC aborts the edit, losing any changes you have already made. To accept and save your
changes, choose F10: ACCEPT.
To manually edit a student’s credits, simply type in that field at the top of the window.
Press F10: ACCEPT to save and exit the window or press TAB or ENTER to move to
the Adjusted GPA (AGPA) field, where you can change the number of quality points
with GPA factor included that the student receives. Pressing TAB or ENTER again will
move the cursor to the Weight (WT) field. When you modify the adjusted quality points
and the weight, the Adjusted GPA (AGPA) will automatically be updated. Similarly,
when you modify the Simple Quality Points (SQP) and weight, the program will
automatically update the Simple GPA (SGPA). (Note that the cursor will not stop in the
AGPA or SGPA fields because there is no way to modify those fields without adjusting
the Quality Points and weight.)
A description of each of the fields at the top of the window in the Transcript View
follows:
CREDITS
AQP
WT
SQP
The Credits shown on the top of the window for YEAR 0 are the student’s
career credits. You may manually change this number or enter it for the
first time if you have just purchased REPORT CARDS PLUS.
Adjusted Quality Points. The adjusted quality points are divided by the
weight to calculate the adjusted GPA, which is listed as “AGPA” at the top
of the window. The adjusted quality points includes extra points the
student may have earned for taking honors courses. (The GPA factor is
used to give extra points for honors courses.)
The weight is usually the same as “credits attempted”. It is divided into the
adjusted quality points to produce the adjusted GPA. Similarly, it is divided
into the simple quality points to produce the simple GPA.
Simple Quality Points. The simple quality points are divided by the weight
to calculate the simple GPA, which is listed as “SGPA” at the top of the
window.
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