I don't skate through report card time. I walk through...in really nice layouts
A school looking to display honor roll achievement on their academic document layout for the first time may need to set the "Show" value on this table
What is the academic classifications table?
"Teachers finished grading and the Dean's list is missing"
What two actions is the customer referring to?
What are posted grades and academic classifications?
"I added the Refresh Records action to the GPA instance but nothing happened".
If a school says this, they may have forgotten to push this green button.
What is the "Update" button?
A school has six "mods", where each mod has a standalone grade. They only average mod grades together at the end of the year, and all mods have equal grade weights. To accomplish this, their grading periods would have to be both _____ & _____.
What are Major & Minor?
Schools using academic document layouts for the first time should use these links, found on person academic documents, to get an example of what the document will look like before they publish to parents
What are preview links?
If a school wants to show only current academic classes on a mid-term document and all graded classes on their final report card, they may want to use two different layouts with different values on these layout fields. (hint: there are possibly two fields, depending on the type of grade data they want to display)
What are the Numeric Grade Table Enrollments and the Class Section Enrollments?
"Veracross deleted the skills list on our end of year performance summary"
What are the qualitative criteria on the academic document?
(Would also accept report card)
"Help! We made our academic document, why can't teachers enter grades?"
If a school is saying this, they probably need to toggle a value on this record "Open for Grading"
What is the Report Card Form Configuration?
Major-only grading periods cannot record this type of grade data
What are student comments?
If they have some classes that are pass/fail and they want the grade and comments tab of the LMS to be "less confusing", schools could make a new one of these to apply to the pass/fail classes
What is a Report Card Form?
There are two detail sections that each have their own version of this field, which allows unmarked qualitative criteria to be suppressed
What is the Hide Criteria without Proficiency Level Designated field?
"We have a peer teacher feedback window after grades are done"
If a school says this, they may be talking about this tool, configured on its own homepage and used primarily in the faculty portal
What is Grade and Comment review?
A student who withdrew from a class in the middle of a grading period may have this flag set to "yes" on the class enrollment record
In contrast, a student who withdrew from the school entirely will still have those class enrollment flags set to "no"
What is the Exclude from Report Card flag?
This grading period related value has to be properly adjusted so that grade and comment review records are properly created
What is Grade Review Active?
(Active Review Period also acceptable)
Before publishing report cards, schools should (re)run these two actions on an academic document record to be sure that all applicable students have a document.
What are refresh filters and confirm filters?
If a school is going to be printing their multi-page, school-configurable academic documents in batch, they may want to toggle one of these two values on the document layout to make it easier to keep track of the pages.
What are "Show PDF Header" and "Show PDF Footer"?
"Help! It's July and a parent is saying we deleted all of their child's report cards!"
A school saying this may need adjust this parent portal configuration value with an action menu item from the portal detail screen
What is Roll Reports Year Forward/Back?
(Would accept either one depending on what school year they are in)
For teachers to do Grade and Comment Review, the grade review records need to exist and this flag has to be toggled to "yes" on the general tab of the Report Card Form Configuration record
What is the Section Grade Review flag?
If a school is changing grading periods and has custom documents. It's possible that a representative of these five different Veracross support teams may touch the request before the work is complete.
(Hint: You're on one of them)
What are TST, SC, CSM, SE:Portals and Docs, SE:Academics and Logistics?
Schools using Grade and Comment Review, school should check this query before running the action to Create Reviews from Configuration, to avoid recreating review records that another school level may have manually deleted.
What is the Grading Periods (Review Active) query?
A school looking to add a message from the Head of School to their report card may want to used one of these fields on the layout
What are content text fields?
"There is a bug and GPAs are broken. We posted grades but GPAs are still the same as last semester"
A school that says this may have forgotten to run this "instance" action
What is Clear and Post Unlocked Values academic classification instances?
(Would accept Posting Academic Classification)
If a school is displaying the results of a GPA configuration on their document, the display value will appear incorrect if these two actions have never been run on a GPA instance
What are "Refresh Records", "Clear and Post Unlocked Values"?
Schools making requests for grading period changes for the next school year will have this new homepage enabled.
What is the Academic Configuration homepage?
Schools that want to ensure no teacher gives a student a numerical grade higher than 100 should adjust this system parameter
What is the Cap Posted Grades parameter?