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

Chapter 2
Enter Courses
Master Course Fields (Fields found on the View/Edit Courses and Sections Window)
Field Name
Optimum
Section Size
Description
After setting up your Master Course List, you will divide each course
into sections according to meeting time and teacher. If you use
SCHEDULING PLUS, the Perform Scheduling program will attempt to
limit each section's enrollment to no more than the entered optimum
size.
NOTE: There is a limit of 250 students per section. However, if you
need to have more than 250 students in a particular section, you may
divide the section into two separate sections.
For both of these sections, enter the exact same data. For example,
221/01 and 221/02 could both have the same teacher, time and room.
That teacher would later get two report card data entry forms or two
attendance forms for the one “real” section.
Course Length
You must enter whether the course is a (Q)uarter, (S)emester, or (A)ll
year course. When you later enter sections for these courses, you will
be able to specify in which of four quarters the section meets for quarter
courses or in which of two semesters it meets for semester courses. If
your school runs on a Trimester system, you can call a course that only
meets for one semester a quarter course and use the first three
quarters of the year.
NOTE: Note that the course length should NOT be changed if the
course exists on students’ transcripts.
If you do change the course length from all year to semester or quarter,
the Course Length in the Section List will automatically appear as
semester 1. If it is a semester 1 or quarter 2, 3 or 4 section, you will
have to manually edit the course length entry in the Section List. If you
change the course length from semester to all year, the Course Length
entry in the section list will automatically change to all year.
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