Academic Performance

Grading Managers can create honor rolls using academic performance. Grading Managers must create grade averages before they can create academic performance. Academic performances can be displayed on report cards and transcripts.

To create academic performance:

1. From the persona menu, select Academics.

2. Select Grades then choose Grading Setup.

3. Select Calculations.

4. Select Add academic performance calculation.

5. Enter the following information:

   • Sort order: the order in which the academic performance type will appear in drop-down menus.

   • Category description: the label for the academic performance, for example: Honor Roll.

   • Number of subcategories: the number of subcategories exist within the academic performance category. For example, if Honor Roll was broken out into 3 levels: High Honors, Honor Roll, and Honorable mention, there are 3 subcategories.

6.  Select Next.

7. Enter a description for each of the subcategories (e.g. High Honors), and assign each an abbreviation (e.g. HH), and priority. The subcategory with the lowest priority has the highest standards, so any student that falls into the subcategory with the lowest priority will no longer be eligible for subcategories with higher priorities.

8. Select Save & Exit.

9. Upon returning to the academic performance management screen, Select Edit next to one of the subcategories.

10. Verify that the information in the abbreviation, priority, and category description is correct.

11. Choose a grade average formula from the drop-down. The first three options are hard-coded grade averages, the additional formulas are created by the Grading Manager.

12. Enter the criteria for the academic performance. For example, High Honors might require an overall grade average of 3.70 and above, so the Grading Manager would select >= from the drop-down, and type in 3.70 in the text box next to the drop-down. Some subcategories might require that a student's grade average is within a certain range. For example, the Honor Roll might require a grade average from 3.40 to 3.69. In the first text box, the Grading Manager would type 3.40 and in the second 3.69. If you do not consider grade averages when determine academic performance, you can skip this step and move on to the next step.

13. Select Save.

14. If the academic performance has additional parameters, like a student must have a grade average above a 3.70 with no grade lower than a B+ to make High Honors, you can set those additional parameters by clicking Grades in the left-hand column.

15. Select Edit next to the term for which academic performance is being generated.

16. Choose a grade from the grade plan Grade Plans are periods during an academic year when grades are recorded. They are like time-sensitive buckets that teachers drop grades into. Grade plans are added to Grade Plan Groups. drop-down, and enter its parameter. For example, the grade might be Q1, and the parameter might be >B+ in the example above in step 13.

17. Repeat this process to add additional parameters.

18. Select Save & Exit.

19. Repeat steps 8-17 for additional subcategories.