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

Chapter 8
Statistical Reports
How Honor Roll Averages Are Calculated
NOTE:
The QP column shows the awarded quality points based on the default letter grade
quality point table. ART is skipped because there is no first marking period grade and
SPANISH is skipped due to the grade of P.
If your honor roll criteria says to use the GPA factor, the awarded quality points will be
adjusted by either multiplying the GPA factor times the awarded quality points or
adding the GPA factor to the awarded quality points. A setting in the Customize RC
program determines whether multiplication or addition takes place. See “GPA Factor”
on page 1-4. If a negative GPA factor brings the quality point total below 0, the quality
points for the course will be raised to 0. In other words, a student will never receive a
negative number of quality points for a course.
Specifications # 4 and #5 in the Inspect/Change Universal HR Specifications determines
the minimum grade the GPA factor will modify. See “MINIMUM GRADE FOR THE
GPA FACTOR” on page 8-8. Use this setting to avoid applying the GPA factor to a
failing grade.
If the setting “Count in Honor Rolls” is set to “No” for a course in View/Edit Courses &
Sections, that course will be skipped.
In the example, the school uses the option to ADD the GPA factor to the number of
awarded quality points. Only one course, AP HISTORY, has a GPA factor other than 0.
For this course, the GPA factor of 1 is added to the awarded quality points of 3.00 to
produce an adjusted quality point total of 4.00. For the other courses, the adjusted
quality points equal the awarded quality points.
Once the adjusted quality points have been calculated, weight will be applied to the
course depending upon how your criteria says courses should be weighted. This weight
will be pro-rated if you have selected to do so. See Universal Honor Roll Specification
#1: “HOW TO WEIGHT COURSES” on page 8-5. In this example, weights are used
but they are NOT pro-rated.
The OVR (Credit Override) column in the student's transcript for the course will now be
looked at. Through the View/Change/Add/Drop program, codes may be entered in this
column, causing the course to count for less than full credit and/or GPA or more than
full credit and GPA for this student only. See “Editing the OVR Column” on page 6-5.
These codes are displayed below:
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