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How Career GPAs & Credits Are Calculated
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How Career GPAs & Credits Are Calculated
The previous two sections have given you some background on the update process and
how it is used to update students’ career credits, quality points and weight. This section
will provide details on exactly how the program updates these totals for students. After
reading it, you should have a better understanding of how a student's current grades are
used to calculate that student's new credits, quality points and weight.
Following this overview are detailed examples of both a temporary update and a
complete update.
General Updating Rules
A complete update is based upon grades in all of the columns that you have designated
as credit columns. The Customize RC program is used to designate report card columns
as credit columns. See “CREDIT” on page 1-8. A complete update is generally
performed at the end of the year immediately before printing students' final report cards.
A temporary update may be performed at any time during the year based on the grades
in any one report card column. For example, half-way through your students' senior
year, you will probably want to update their career grade point averages based on their
midyear grades in order to calculate their up-to-date rank in class for college transcripts.
When you perform a temporary update, you will have to set Specification #1: UPDATE
BASED ON WHICH COLUMNS to the column on which the update will be based. At
midyear, you will likely set the Midyear or Semester 1 grade as your selected column.
You will then be required to set the percentage of each course’s total weight you wish
to use for your FULL YEAR, SEMESTER and QUARTER COURSES. You may enter
a different percentage for each type of course. See “4) PERCENT TO WEIGHT FULL
YEAR COURSES” on page 8-34 for additional information on entering these weights.
NOTE:
Do not confuse the weights entered in Update Specifications with the total weight of the
course entered in View/Edit Courses & Sections. The number entered in Update
Specifications represents a PERCENTAGE of the total weight set in View/Edit Courses &
Sections. See “View/Edit Courses & Sections” on page 2-3. When updating on the Semester
grade, if you enter 50.00 as the percentage for ALL YEAR courses, students will receive 1/2
the credit & GPA for the course at midyear.
General Rules For Calculating Credits
Current credits are computed based on the grades in the credit columns. See page 1-8 for
information on how to designate a report card column as a CREDIT column. Only
passing grades, that is, grades that have a Y in the credit column in the Grade Table are
awarded credits. By default, letter grades of D- or above and number grades of 65 or
above are awarded credit. A grade of P is also awarded credits by default, but the grades
X, N, WP, WF, F, F+, F-, W, and I are not awarded credits. However, the Customize
RCEdit Grade Table program can be used to change a grade to credit or non-credit.
See “Edit Grade Table” on page 1-2.
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