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

Entry Forms
Grade Distribution Report
Specification
2) DISTRIBUTION
REPORT
TYPE
Description
After selecting the distribution report type, you will be asked to choose
the report card column on which the report should be based. Any
column may be used except COMMENT and ABSENT columns or
columns designated as type OTHER. See “Editing Report Card
Comments” on page 1-9. These columns will not be listed in the dropdown
list in Specification #3: WHICH GRADES TO USE In other
words, Grade Distribution Reports may be based on marking period,
exam, semester, or final grades.
The OTHER column in all Grade Distribution reports includes blank
grades as well as any of the “withdrawn” grades, such as “W”, “WP”,
and “WF”. The “OTHER” column is NOT included in total percentages.
If all of the grades for a section fall into the “OTHER” column, that
section will not be printed. In other words, Report Cards Plus will
assume that the section did not meet for that marking period.
The program will attempt to avoid splitting a course or teacher between
two pages of the report. In other words, before starting a teacher or
course, it will determine if there is enough space left on the current
page for all of the sections. If there is not enough space left, the
program will skip to the top of the next page.
3) WHICH
GRADES TO
USE
4) GRADING
SYSTEM
After selecting the distribution report type, you will be asked to choose
the report card column on which the report should be based. Any
column may be used except COMMENT and ABSENT columns or
columns designated as type OTHER. In other words, Grade
Distribution Reports may be based on any column of type PERIOD,
EXAM, SEMESTER or FINAL. If yours is a two semester school that
gives credit at the end of each semester, select ALL CREDIT
COLUMNS.
This specification is used to set the number of columns needed on the
report. LETTER GRADES WITH +/- require three columns for each
letter grade, such as A+, A, A-. LETTER GRADE report created without
using + or - will need only one column. If you are using NUMBER
GRADES, you will have the option to set a range in the next window
that appears. YEAR If you have transferred GPAs/credits so that
previous grades show in View/Change/Add/Drop in the minus years,
use this specification to create a report showing the distribution of
grades in a past year. The default setting is always the current year.
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