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

Introduction
The Report Card Plus Programs
Print Grade Distribution Reports: A useful tool for statistical analysis, the Grade
Distribution Report shows the number and percentage of students who received a grade
within a user-defined range. You can choose to show the distribution of grades either by
teacher, or by course and department.
NOTE:
Program #4: ENTER GRADES
Enter Students’ Schedules: This program displays section rosters and allows you to
manually add students to them. This is the quickest way to manually schedule students
into a section if a previously-created list needs entering.
As an alternative to entering schedules manually, you can scan students' schedules into
Administrator’s Plus using the Scan Schedules program (see Chapter B).
Enter Students' Grades: At the end of each marking period, use this program to enter
students' grades into the program from either scanner or manual data entry forms. If you
are entering grades manually, the names of the students in that section will appear on the
window after entering the course and section number. The only data you need to enter
are the grades and one or two optional comment codes. Also use this program to import
students’ grades from GradeQuick.
Program #5: CALCULATE AVERAGES
Calculate Averages: This option calculates midyear or final average grades based on the
marking period grades entered with the Enter Grades program. The Calculate Averages
program calculate averages for either letter or numeric grading systems. See Chapter 5
of this manual for more information on calculating averages.
Blank Report Card Columns: This option allows you to remove grades from a report
card column for every student at once, rather than deleting them one student at a time.
Many schools that need to update GPAs/Credits on the third quarter for purposes of
printing the class rank report (and that do not have a midyear column on the report card)
use this option to blank the grades from the final column for all-year courses after
calculating an average into that column.
Program #6: VIEW/CHANGE/ADD/DROP
Transcript View: The View/Change/Add/Drop (VCAD) program can:
• View students' transcripts and to make changes to those transcripts, such as to fix
incorrect grades that may have been entered with the Enter Grades program. You
can also use VCAD to view or change students' grades from previous years that are
stored in the archival files.
• Manually change students' total career credits, quality points and weight.
• Enter students' past courses, grades, career credits and GPA data directly into
students’ archival records, which many schools do when they first purchase the
program. Note that if you enter grades from past years, the Statistical Reports
program should be used to calculate students’ career GPAs based on these past
grades.
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