•  Admins or Teachers can view Report Cards
•  Admins can view Transcripts
•  Admins can lookup students in
•  Admins can print a


How GPA's are Calculated

On the page, admins define how many grade points each letter grade is worth, e.g. A=4.0 B=3.0 C=2.0 D=1.0 F=0.0. This can also be used for numeric rubrics, e.g. to define 3+ = 3.3. Use the "Templates" menu to start with a common configuration, then customize the settings as needed.

Honors/AP — You may define separate GPA scales for Honors and Advanced Placement courses, e.g. A=5.0 B=4.0 C=3.0 D=1.0 F=0.0. To designate which courses are Honors and AP, see the page.

Plus/Minus Signs — Grades like B+ may count as 3.0, 3.3, 3.33, or 3.333. Select the appropriate option from the Templates menu. (Do not delete the ± grades from your GPA scale, otherwise those grades will not count as anything toward the GPA.) This affects how the total GPA is calculated. Note: Report cards and transcripts both have separate options to hide the ± signs from grades, which means a B+ is reported as B 3.0, so the GPA may be slightly different than other reports that do not remove the ± signs.

E = Fail — If your school uses "E" instead of "F", select "ABCDE" from the Templates menu. (Otherwise it will not calculate GPA's correctly.)

Excused Marks — Any mark not explicitly defined in your GPA scale will be excused and not count toward the GPA, e.g. "P" and "INC".

Pass — On transcripts, "P", "Pass" or "PASS" are all recognized, so the student does earn the credits, but it does not count toward the GPA. You do not need to define P/Pass in your GPA scale. Any other mark not defined in your GPA scale, like "I", does not earn credits for the student.

Weighted GPA's — You may set some courses to weigh less than others, or not count at all toward the GPA. To define how many Credits each course is worth, see the page. Zero credits means the course does not count. The default is 1, so you could use any number like 0.5 or 4 to make the course weigh less or more.


GPA's on Report Cards

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. For example, if your Language Arts standards have 2 strands, that will have twice as much weight on the GPA as a subject with just one strand. To compensate for this, you can change the Credits for each course on the page, e.g., to set the Credits for all Language Arts courses to 0.5.

Note: If a student has classes from multiple tracks, it is unable to combine them, so it show separate GPA for each track, which may not be useful.


GPA's on Transcripts

Transcripts show two different GPA's (SIS accounts only):

Attempted GPA includes all classes, even if failed or repeated.

Passed GPA includes only classes with passing grades — i.e., more than zero grade points.

The subtotals for each term show just the attempted GPA. The cumulative total shows both GPA's.


GPA/Eligibility Report

This lets admins list everyone's GPA and low grades.

To verify Athletic Eligibility, first check the "Athlete" checkbox on the page in Admin Mode to identify which students participate in sports. (This checkbox 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. (Coaches can check their own players' grades if you setup teams as classes.)

Similarly you can check students who are At Risk.

To determine Honor Roll eligibility, list all students who have a GPA at least a certain amount.

To determine Class Rank & Valedictorian, set the term to "Cumulative Transcript", select the grade level, and sort students by GPA. This shows the Attempted GPA, which includes failed classes. (Note: This feature requires you to use transcripts, which are for SIS accounts only.)


See also: Report Cards, Transcripts