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Grade point averages (GPA) are calculated automatically for each grading period. (But it does not calculate cumulative GPA's spanning multiple years like on transcripts — see your Student Information System for that.) There are three places you can find a student's GPA:
• Teachers or Admins can print a Report Card GPA's are based on A/B/C/D/F letter grades or numeric rubrics (you can go higher than 4.0 if you want). Any other grades, like E/S/N, are ignored for GPA calculations. Plus/minus signs on grades, like A-, can be calculated in different ways. The page lets you count signs as any value, like 0.3 to count A- as 3.7, or 0 to count A- as 4.0. If on the page you uncheck "Allow +/- signs on grades" for any grading period, then those grades will never have plus/minus signs, so e.g. A- is reported as A 4.0.
Weighted GPA's are possible, where some classes can weigh less than others, or not count at all toward the GPA. Admins can set the Units for all teachers' classes on the page. Zero units means the class does not count. The default is 1 unit, so you could use any number like 0.5 or 4 to make the class weigh less or more. Colleges simply use how many credits each course is worth. Report Cards and Progress Reports may optionally show GPA's for each selected grading period. Note: The grades on standards-based report cards are not necessarily the same as the overall class grade, so the GPA may be different on different types of reports. Also, the weighting may be different because the GPA on standards-based report cards is based on the grades for each strand (group of objectives), not each subject — e.g., if you have 2 strands for Language, that will have twice as much weight on the GPA than a subject with just one strand. To compensate for this, you can change the Units for each subject on the page, e.g., to set the Units for Language to 0.5.
Note: If a student has classes from multiple schedules, it tries to find the total GPA among all of them. This requires you to select grading periods that are exactly the same from each schedule, otherwise it can only show separate GPA's for each schedule, which may not be useful. This lets Admins see everyone's GPA and low grades. (Available only for group licenses.) To check Athletic Eligibility, first mark which students are athletes on the page by clicking the "Edit Student" button and checking the "Athlete" checkbox (this is ). Then on the page list all Athletes who have a GPA below a certain amount or who have below a certain grade in any class. Similarly you can check students who are At Risk or on Academic Probation.
To check Honor Roll eligibility, list all students who have a GPA at least a certain amount. |