•  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 screen, 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 screen.

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.

Credits — You may set some courses to count less than others, or not count at all toward the GPA. To define how many Credits each course is worth, see the screen. 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 count as 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 calculations 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 count twice as much toward the GPA as a subject with just one strand. To compensate for this, you can change the Credits for each course on the screen, e.g., to set the Credits for all Language Arts courses to 0.5.

Note: If a student has classes from multiple tracks where the grading periods are named the same, it does calculate the GPA correctly for both tracks combined. But if the grading periods differ in each track, it is unable to combine them, so it shows a separate GPA for each track, which may not be useful.


GPA's on Transcripts

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

Weighted GPA includes all courses, with extra points for Honors/AP. This is the same calculation method described above for Report Cards and other reports.

Unweighted GPA is what most colleges look at for admissions. It does not count extra points for Honors/AP, and you may exclude certain courses, like PE and electives, or 9th grade courses. To exclude a course, edit it on the screen, and uncheck "C. Count for college application".

In sum:

For a course to not count at all toward either GPA, set it to 0 credits.

For a course to count toward the Weighted GPA but not the Unweighted GPA, set it to a number of credits, but uncheck "C. Count for college application".

For an Honors/AP course to have more points for the Weighted GPA but not the Unweighted GPA, like A=5.0 for high school but A=4.0 for college admissions, set the course to use the GPA scale for H or AP.

Note: People use the word "weighted" to describe two different things. Usually "weighted GPA" means extra points for Honors/AP, but it could also mean more credits for certain courses.


GPA/Eligibility Report

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

To verify Athletic Eligibility, first check the "Athlete" checkbox on the screen in Admin Mode to identify which students participate in sports. (This checkbox is .) Then on the screen, 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 looks at the Weighted GPA on transcripts, so it won't work if you're not using transcripts. (Note: This report does count ± signs, so if your transcripts are set to remove ± signs, the GPA will be slightly different.) (This option available for Jupiter SIS only.)


See also: Report Cards, Transcripts