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Usually set to 09, this can be entered on a course or an individual student's class record.
GLO (Grade Level Override)
A cross-entity historical GPA
DST
Often set up as a scheduled task, this utility updates students' current GPAs for a selected grading period.
GPA Calculation
Report cards can be translated into Spanish by adding the translations within this area.
Language Translator
A utility must be run prior to printing report cards if this type of attendance is being printed.
Attendance Totals per Class
This screen can be used to quickly manually enter grades for all students in a class.
Grading > Entry by Class
A cross-entity current GPA
DFL
Often used by TX districts, the Calculate Grades Using Existing Grades utility requires this area to be set up on the grade marks.
Grade Calculation Settings
Semesterized courses can be listed on the same line on report cards by setting up these codes.
Report Card Group codes
This type of report card can actually print both secondary and standards classes.
Secondary report cards (district or custom)
Leah's favorite screen for troubleshooting, this will display a red message if a utility needs to be run to update GPA.
GPA Details screen
This tab displays the cumulative and non-cumulative GPAs for one grading period for a student.
GPA Summary
If grades were posted too early, run this utility to mass delete them after changing the Grade Input Dates.
Mass Delete Grades By Grade Bucket
If changing this dropdown on a report card template to something other than "Last Completed" be sure to check the box to run a GPA calculation.
Grading Period
A different template can be assigned to each grade level with this type of report card.
Custom standards report card
The ATH grade will only post for a student if they are in one of these.
An Activity
This utility retotals the cumulative GPA based on the student's stored values but does not verify that the stored values are correct.
Mass Audit
This utility can be used to update all students' families to receive report cards and/or print hard copy report cards.
Mass Update Grading Student Entity Information - SI
A student's report card won't print if either of these fields is set to No.
Print Report Card field on Entity Info tab
Receive Report Cards field on Family tab
This must be enabled in order to use the Enhanced district report cards (or Transcripts).
Use the CAS/DAS for Viper reporting
A grade that was changed by Auto Post will show this value in the "Name" column in the Change History.
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This utility runs automatically if GPA credits are changed on a previous year's course, but must be run manually if GPA calculation methods are changed in a previous year.
Credit History Integrity Audit
The checkbox on a student's class record to not allow gradebook to overwrite the grade can be manually checked, or it can be checked by either of these two utilities.
Mass Change Do Not Allow Overwrite Grades
Posting Utility
When posting report cards to the Portfolio, this must also be enabled in order for guardians to see them.
Family Access Entity Configuration > Report Cards area
This can be used to get a list of guardians who did not e-sign the report card in Family Access.
Report Card Runs report