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

Statistical Reports
Introduction & Main Menu
• You can define Universal honor roll specifications to use with all honor rolls and
Report Cards Report Writer to ensure that column averages on report cards will be
identical to honor roll averages. These specifications include selecting between 0 and
4 decimal places and setting a minimum grade to which the GPA factor should be
applied. For example, you could specify that only grades in an AP course higher than
a “C-” should be awarded AP bonus points.
• The GPA factor may be used (or not used) in checking for minimum grades. For
example, if students are omitted for having a grade less than an “A-”, you can have a
“B” in an AP course count as an “A” and not omit those students. (See “The Universal
Honor Roll Specifications determine how all honor rolls, as well as column averages,
will be calculated, including how courses will be weighted and whether all or only
certain courses will be counted toward the average.” on page 5 for more information.)
• A complete help explanation window automatically pops up for each specification.
• A detailed report may now be printed showing just how honor roll GPA's are
calculated.
• If a student doesn't make an honor roll, you may now print an INDIVIDUAL
STUDENT AUDIT report showing just how their GPA was calculated and stating in
plain English why they didn't make the honor roll.
Grade Point Averages
Administrator’s Plus also keeps a running career grade point average that takes into
account all of a student's grades since they enrolled in your school. This portion of the
program is used to update students' career credits and grade point averages at the end of
the semester and at the end of the year. It is also used to produced various reports based
on students' career credits and grade point averages such as class rank reports. Class rank
reports are written to the disk so that they can be optionally printed on report cards,
permanent labels and transcripts.
The newest version of the program allows you to track simple and adjusted GPA
separately, and print them both on reports so that you can see the difference in a
student’s GPA between courses that use GPA factor and those that don’t. Separate
weights can be used for simple and adjusted GPAs as well - see Chapter 2. Furthermore:
• Two different GPA reports may be defined. One for class rank and one for eligibility.
• Either report can be viewed on the window and students deleted from the list for any
reason before it is printed.
• When updating GPAs, the report will appear on the window. You can choose not to
print it or to print it in summary or detailed form. The detailed report provides much
more information and is easier to read than in previous versions.
• Un-updating is not necessary. If you are re-updating, un-updating will automatically
be done first.
• When updating past years, GPAs and credits will automatically be set to 0 prior to
beginning.
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