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

Chapter 8
Statistical Reports
How Adjusted & Simple GPA’s Are Calculated
If the LAST updated figures are not all zeroes, before an update is done for the second
time in the same year, an UN-UPDATE automatically takes place. Un-updating may
also be done manually at any time although it’s usually not necessary. Un-updating will
reverse everything to the way it was before the update:
CAREER CREDITS : 8.50 LAST CREDITS UPDATE : 0.00
CAREER ADJUSTED QP : 700.00 LAST ADJUSTED QP UPDATE : 0.00
CAREER WEIGHT : 10.00 LAST WEIGHT UPDATE : 0.00
CAREER SIMPLE QP : 680.00 LAST SIMPLE QP UPDATE : 0.00
NOTE:
Un-updating involves subtracting the Last Credits Update of 4.00 from the Career Credits
of 12.50 to get the old credits of 8.50. The Old Credits of 8.50 are then stored in the
CAREER Credits column and the Last Credits Update column is set to zero. Similar
calculations un-update the quality points and weight.
Once everything has been un-updated, this student’s GPA and Credits may be updated
again. This is why the last update data is stored. It enables a temporary updating to take
place based on the grades in any marking period. Subsequently, this temporary update
may be un-updated, followed by another temporary update or a complete update at the
end of the year.
If a student's grades change after he has been updated, that student may be un-updated
individually and then updated again using the new grades.
When the Beginning program is run at the end of the year, the Last Update figures will
be reset to zero so that further updating can take place in the new year.
When you first purchase Report Cards Plus, students’ prior career credits, career
adjusted quality points, career simple quality points and career adjusted and simple
weight may be entered into the computer using the View/change/add/drop program. The
View/change/add/drop program may be used at anytime to view or change these
numbers.
The next sections will explain in detail how to update students' career credits and grade
point averages.
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