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

Chapter 8
Statistical Reports
How Career GPAs & Credits Are Calculated
In a complete update in a school with only one credit column, a student will be awarded
full credit for each course in which he has a passing grade.
In a complete update, if there is more than one credit column, the following will take
place for each passing grade:
All Year Courses
The total credit entered in View/Edit Courses & Sections will be divided by the number
of credit columns. For example, if there are two credit columns and an ALL YEAR
course is worth one credit, a passing grade in a credit column will be worth .50 credits.
If you are updating based on the Semester 1 column, the student will receive .50 credit
for the course. When all grades are in at the end of the year, passing grades in both credit
columns will amount to full credit. See “View/Edit Courses & Sections” on page 2-3.
Semester & Quarter Courses
These courses will be awarded full credit for a passing grade in any credit column. There
shouldn't be a grade in more than one credit column for these courses. Once credit has
been awarded, no further credit columns will even be looked at.
In a temporary update based upon one column, the credits will be multiplied by the
percentage that you have entered for each type of course. For example, if you are doing
a temporary update using the MIDYEAR grade column, and you have entered 50.00 as
the PERCENT TO WEIGHT FULL YEAR COURSES an ALL YEAR course worth 5
credits will be awarded only 50 percent of those 5 credits or 2.5 credits. See “3)
REPORT DETAIL” on page 8-33.
After credits have been awarded according to the above criteria, the OVR column in the
student's transcript is examined for each course. See Chapter 6 page “Editing the OVR
Column” on page 6-5 for an explanation of the function of the OVR column in
View/Change/Add/Drop.
If the REGENT'S option is being used for a complete update, credits will be awarded
for a passing REGENT'S grade even if the FINAL grade is a failing grade or any other
grade. A REGENT'S grade will not take the place of a blank final grade.
NOTE:
General Rules For Calculating Quality Points & Weight
Current quality points and weight are computed based on the grades in the appropriate
report card columns. By default, grades of P, W, WP, I, X, N or a blank space will be
ignored in calculating the weight and quality points. A course will also be skipped if it
is set not to count in the GPA in View/Edit Courses & Sections. See “Master Course
Fields (Fields found on the View/Edit Courses and Sections Window)” on page 2-4.
Note that although P, W, WP, I, X, and N are set in the grade table not to count in calculating
the weight and quality points, if you assign them a quality point value and set the Average
column to “Y” in the grade table, they will count in weight and quality point calculations.
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