The Scheduling>Curriculum>Modify Course screen is where you will find all the fields and settings that make up a specific course. This article is specific to the grading options.
Each school has its own school curriculum and each school year's curriculum is separate; this allows you to make edits to courses that will only affect 1 school in a single school year.
This screens make up is the same in both the current year and next year scheduling versions.
Grading / Transcript Related Options:
Field | Description |
Graded Course | If checked, this course will be eligible to be graded. (Courses that are NOT graded do NOT show up in the Course Submission collection) |
Course Credit | The amount of credits a course is worth. (Must be equal to at least 1.00 credit in order to include a course in a GPA calculation, regardless of whether or not you are awarding students credits. ie: if you want to create a GPA for the Middle School to determine the top of class students, you will need to give each course to be included in the GPA at least 1.00 credit) |
Skill Group | The skill group the course is to be included in when using skills based report cards/grading |
Core Subject | The core subject the course is to be included in when using skills based report cards/grading |
Core Course | Only used by certain Honor Roll rules. In addition, you may insert '3MPFY' to indicate the course is a Full Year course, but meets only 3 of the 4 quarters (ex: 3-quarter Phys. Ed.) for the purpose of calculating earned credit. |
Collects Overall Grade | Allows Course to collect FG on grade posting screens. If course does not have a skill group, then this field is automatically checked. |
May Collect Drop Down Comments | Allows Course to collect drop down comments on grade posting screens. |
Include in Honor Roll | If checked, this course will be considered in Honor Roll calculations |
Include in GPA | If checked, this course will be considered in Grade Point Average calculations |
Include On Transcript | If checked, this course will appear on the student transcript form(s) |
GPA WEIGHTS There are three sets of Quality Points that can be configured; Default, Alpha and Numeric. Note that (Alpha) will only calculate based on posted Alpha Grades and (Numeric) will only calculate based on a Numeric Grade. See Weighted GPAs and Quality Points for more information.
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No Weight | Course is not weighted for GPA purposes. No difference in grades earned in this course from a weighted GPA versus an un-weighted GPA. See below options for use with a 'weighted' GPA. |
Add | Alpha GPA: Takes value in the GPA Weight field. field, and adds it to the quality point value on the grade earned. Numeric GPA: Takes value in the GPA Weight field. , and adds to the QP value that the numeric grade is translated to (ex: if a final grade of 100 = 4.0 quality points, the gpa weight is added to the '4.0'). The gpa weight value is also added to the actual numeric grade earned, but only if this setting on the Grading > Setup > Valid Grades > Numeric Grades screen is turned OFF: Weight Numeric QP Only. Do Not Weight Numeric Grade. After you select Add, make sure to enter the Add value into the
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Multiply | Works same as above - but multiplies. “Weight Numeric QP Only” also in effect here. Takes value in the GPA Weight field |
Add Credits to Grade; Then Multiply | Works same as above ones - but uses this formula for weighting: (UnweightedGradeQualityPoints + CourseCredits) * gpaWeight. “Weight Numeric QP Only” also in effect here |
Rank Level | For Alpha uses the QP in the Alpha Grades table. Rank with a GPA Weight of 1 will use the L1Q column. Rank with “GPA Weight” of 2 will use L2Q, etc… |
Flags (Honors and AP (CP on Numeric)) | Exactly the same as RANK (above) but uses College Prep: Honors and AP columns. It only has 3 levels. |
Ignore in a weighted GPA | Will ignore all grades from course in a weighted GPA. Grade will not be included. |
(Num. Grade / 100) * Weight * Credits | Uses that formula. Only works on numeric. (Rarely used, really.) |
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