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Grade Reporting > Utilities > Grade Computation and Credit Assignment
This utility calculates and assigns semester grades, final grades, and course credits for secondary grade levels. Numeric grades and pass/fail grades (i.e., report card grade type P) are calculated. Students in elementary grade levels are excluded.
If including the exam grade, the following is used to calculate the semester average:
( ( (Cycle 1 + Cycle 2 + Cycle 3) / 3 x (Total Weight - Exam Weight) ) + (Exam Grade x Exam Weight) ) / Total Weight
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Campus Control Information |
Settings from several Maintenance > Tables > Campus Control Options tabs are used when the utility is run. The settings are displayed for your reference. The Allow Partial Credit and Credit Sequence fields in the district master schedule are also considered in processing. |
Include Withdrawn Students |
Select to include withdrawn students in the process. The utility does not consider the withdrawal date, only if the student is withdrawn.
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Include Withdrawn Courses |
Select to include withdrawn courses in the process. |
Select the process(es) to be performed:
Compute Semester Average |
Select if you are not using TeacherPortal, or if you are calculating blank semester grades when Allow Recomputation is not selected on Maintenance > Tables > Campus Control Options > Computation. |
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Compute Final Grades |
Select to calculate final grades. If selected, the fields under Exclude Final Grade Computations are enabled. |
Award Credits |
Select to award credits. |
Award Credits Self Paced |
Select to award credits to self-paced courses. If selected, credits are assigned if the course has a semester grade. |
Track |
(Required) Select a track number, or select A to calculate grades and assign credits for all tracks. |
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Reset Non-Graded Courses |
Select to clear any grades that have been entered or posted for a student in a non-graded course, or if a graded course is changed to a non-graded course and at least one grade exists for this course. If selected, and a course with grades assigned is changed to a non-graded course, the grades are deleted in ASCENDER only, not in TeacherPortal. |
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Semesters |
Select the semesters to be updated. You must select at least one semester. IMPORTANT! Select all semesters that should be updated; semesters are considered when awarding grades or credits. |
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Exclude Final Grade Computations |
The section is enabled only if Compute Final Grades is selected. Select any options to be excluded from final grade computation. The options only apply to courses that were not taken for all semesters of the course. |
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Click Execute.
You must clear either Compute Semester Average or Allow Recomputation.
If the following conditions exist, the process is interrupted, and a message is displayed:
Compute Semester Average is selected.
Allow Recomputation on the Maintenance > Tabes > Campus Control Options > Computation tab is selected (recalculate all grades).
The campus is not using txGradebook.
The message asks if you want to continue the process. Click Yes to recalculate all grades, or click No to stop the process.
If errors are encountered, errors and warnings are displayed in the error listing at the bottom of the page. Review, save, or print the report.
If students and courses were excluded from final grade computation, the Print Excl List button is displayed. Click Print Excl List to print the exclusion report.
Note: The report is independent of the Exclude Final Grade Computations options.
Print Excl List | Print if students and courses were excluded from final grade computation.Review, save, and/or print the report.
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Print Partial | If any course was not taken for all semesters of the course, but was included in final grade computation, print a list of students who only took part of the course.Review, save, and/or print the report.
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