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

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Chapter 8<br />

Statistical <strong>Report</strong>s<br />

Update/Un-update GPA's & Credits<br />

Specification<br />

4) PERCENT TO<br />

WEIGHT FULL<br />

YEAR<br />

COURSES<br />

Description<br />

The number you enter here should reflect the percentage of the ALL<br />

YEAR course that is complete at the time of the update. If you are<br />

updating on the Semester 1 grade, enter “50.00” as the weight. If you<br />

are updating on the quarter grade, enter “25.00” as the weight. The<br />

grade the student receives in this column for an ALL YEAR course<br />

will count as 50 percent or 25 percent of their total GPA respectively.<br />

The 50 percent entry will cause half of a course's entered weight to<br />

be used in calculating the grade point average.<br />

NOTE: Note that 50.00 here means 50 percent of the TOTAL weight<br />

entered for that course in Enter CoursesView/Edit Courses &<br />

Sections. If a course is worth 1 credit and you set this specification to<br />

“50.00”, the student will receive .5 credits for the course after the<br />

update.<br />

5) PERCENT TO<br />

WEIGHT SEM<br />

1 COURSES<br />

6) PERCENT TO<br />

WEIGHT SEM<br />

2 COURSES<br />

7) PERCENT TO<br />

WEIGHT QTR<br />

COURSES<br />

8) THIRD<br />

QUARTER<br />

UPDATE<br />

For a midyear update, schools will always enter a 100 percent for<br />

their semester and quarter courses. This is because for these<br />

courses, the midyear grade represents the final grade and should be<br />

given whole weight.<br />

However, for a temporary update based on a third quarter average,<br />

you should weight semester one courses 100 percent, but semester<br />

two courses only 50 percent, because they are only half finished.<br />

Quarter courses would still be weighted 100 percent, because any<br />

quarter course with a grade has been completed.<br />

See “How Career GPAs & Credits Are Calculated” on page 41 for<br />

additional information on how the program uses weights when<br />

performing an update.<br />

This specification is always set to “No”, unless you are performing a<br />

TEMPORARY update based on third quarter grades. The<br />

procedures for performing both a permanent and a temporary third<br />

quarter update are explained in the next section.<br />

After verifying that the update specifications are correct, the next<br />

window will allow you to select a grade level on which to perform the<br />

update. You will then be able to select the entire grade level or<br />

individual students.<br />

8-34 <strong>Report</strong> <strong>Cards</strong> <strong>Manual</strong>

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