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

Chapter 8
Statistical Reports
Update/Un-update GPA's & Credits
Inspect/Change Universal GPA Specifications
When you click on Option #6, you will see the following specification window.:
SPECIFICATION #1)
SPECIFICATION #2
FACTOR
MINIMUM LETTER GRADE FOR GPA FACTOR
MINIMUM NUMBER GRADE FOR THE GPA
The GPA factor is either added to or multiplied by the quality points of higher level
courses. Grades BELOW what you enter here will not be modified by the GPA factor.
For example, if you are a letter grading school, enter a D- to not have the quality points
of a grade of F raised by the GPA factor.
SPECIFICATION #3 NUMBER OF DECIMAL PLACES (0 TO 4)
It is strongly recommended that you never use more than TWO decimal places. This is
because you may not have more significant figures in your average than the numbers
used to calculate the average. Because teachers do not usually use decimals when they
give tests or submit their grades, any digits after the second decimal tend to be
meaningless.
SPECIFICATION #4
USE REGENT'S COLUMN FOR CREDITS
Schools in New York may use this option to cause the HIGHER of the grades in the
final column and REGENT'S column to be used in updating student's career credits and
grade point averages. To use this option, the school must meet these criteria:
1) A report card column must be designated as the final grade
and it must be the only column designated as a CREDIT column.
2) There must be another column that has a three character
name of RGT or REG. This column would be the column for
your REGENT'S GRADE.
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