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

Chapter 8
Statistical Reports
Honor Rolls
In order to determine if a student is on an honor roll, their average is calculated AND
their grades go through minimum grade checks. For example, assume that you have an
HONORS course to which you will add a GPA factor of 1. In-other-words, a C in this
course will count like a B when the average is calculated. Also assume that you want to
omit students from the honor roll with any grade less than a B-. If you select Option #3,
USE FOR AVERAGES & MINIMUM GRADE CHECKS, a student with a C in an
honors course will NOT be omitted, because the C will be raised to a B when performing
the minimum grade checks.
INCLUDE COURSES WITH GPA FACTOR OF 99 (NO LONGER USED)
In previous versions of Administrator’s Plus, a GPA factor of ‘99’ was entered for a
course in order to prevent it from being counted toward honor rolls or GPAs. This setting
was then set not include courses with a GPA factor of ‘99’. However, beginning with
Version 3, this feature is no longer used. Instead, the option of whether or not to count
a course toward honor rolls and/or GPAs is set in Enter Courses View/Edit Courses
& Sections.
MINIMUM GRADE FOR THE GPA FACTOR
The GPA factor is either added to or multiplied by the quality points of advanced level
courses. Grades BELOW what you enter here will not be affected by the GPA factor.
For example, if you are a letter grading school, enter a D- to not have grades of F raised
by the GPA factor.
MAJOR COURSES HAVE PRIORITIES 0 to
Administrator’s Plus allows you to split all courses into MAJOR and MINOR courses.
You may then use the next two specifications to determine which courses will be used
in average calculations as well as in minimum grade checks. For example, you could
specify that only major courses will be used in the average calculation but that both
MAJOR & MINOR courses will be used in minimum grade checks.
With the Enter Courses program, a PRIORITY code from 0 to 5 may be entered for each
course. 0 is highest priority while a 5 is lowest priority. These priorities were originally
used by the scheduling module when conflicts occur. (The course with the lower priority
is dropped.) Consequently, major courses usually have a high priority (0 or 1 or 2) and
minor courses usually have a low priority (3, or 4, or 5). This specification allows you
to define when major courses stop and minor courses start. If you enter a 2, then courses
with priorities of 0 to 2 will be considered major courses and those with priorities from
3 to 5 will be considered minor courses.
INCLUDE WHICH COURSES IN AVERAGES
You have three options: See the explanation for specification #5 for the definition of
MAJOR and MINOR courses.
• ALL COURSES
• MAJOR COURSES ONLY
• MINOR COURSES
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