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Grade Computation and Credit Assignment

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.

Semester grade calculation

Update data:

FieldDescription
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Include Withdrawn Students

Select to include withdrawn students in the process.

The utility does not consider the withdrawal date, only if the student is withdrawn.



If selected, and if Include Withdrawn Courses is not selected, withdrawn courses are computed only if they match the withdrawn student's withdrawal date.

Include Withdrawn Courses

Select to include withdrawn courses in the process.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.

If selected and if the campus does not use TeacherPortal, you will be prompted to confirm that you want to continue when you execute the utility.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If you select to exclude one or more, a list of the students and courses excluded from final grade computation is produced.

If applicable, a message is displayed indicating that no courses qualify for exclusion.

Click Execute.

  • If the following conditions exist, the process is stopped, and a message is displayed:
    • Compute Semester Average is selected.
    • Allow Recomputation on the Maintenance > Tables > Campus Control Options > Computation tab is selected (recalculate all grades).
    • The campus is using txGradebook.

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.

Other functions and features:

Print Excl ListPrint if students and courses were excluded from final grade computation.Review, save, and/or print the report.
Print PartialIf 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.
gradereporting/utilities/gradecomputationandcreditassignment.1488483874.txt.gz · Last modified: 2017/03/02 14:44 (external edit)