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At times it is necessary to move students from one section to another and they will appear in your grade book as dropped. Where you enter grades for that student will depend on when they dropped the section. | At times it is necessary to move students from one section to another and they will appear in your grade book as dropped. Where you enter grades for that student will depend on when they dropped the section. | ||
If they drop close to the end of the reporting term, you need to prepare the grades for that student in the section he has dropped. | If they drop close to the end of the reporting term, you need to prepare the grades for that student in the section he has dropped. | ||
- | Instructions: | + | ===== Instructions: |
- | To see dropped students in your class list, select ‘Filter Selected’ from the drop down menu in the Student Groups pane to the left of your screen. | + | |
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Finally, one important step is to go to Tools and choose Recalculate Final Grades. You can just accept the defaults but you must complete this step so that the dropped students grades get updated on the report card. | Finally, one important step is to go to Tools and choose Recalculate Final Grades. You can just accept the defaults but you must complete this step so that the dropped students grades get updated on the report card. | ||
- | Example Case: | + | ==== Example Case: ==== |
A student switches sections of your Math class at the end of semester one. He attended period 1 math for semester 1 and will attend period 3 math for semester 2. In this case, prepare grades for semester 1 in the old section (Period 1) and enter grades for Q3, S2 etc... in the new section (period 3). There is no need to transfer grades from the old section to the new section. | A student switches sections of your Math class at the end of semester one. He attended period 1 math for semester 1 and will attend period 3 math for semester 2. In this case, prepare grades for semester 1 in the old section (Period 1) and enter grades for Q3, S2 etc... in the new section (period 3). There is no need to transfer grades from the old section to the new section. | ||
- | Example Case: | + | ==== Example Case: ==== |
A student switches sections of your English class at the end of quarter one. He attended period 1 English SL for quarter 1 and will attend English SL period 4 for Q2 onwards. In this case, the Q1 grade will come from the old section, so prepare grades for the dropped student in the period 1. However, in order to ensure a proper S1 grade calculation you should also copy these grades over to the new section so that his final grade will be based on this Q1 grade. | A student switches sections of your English class at the end of quarter one. He attended period 1 English SL for quarter 1 and will attend English SL period 4 for Q2 onwards. In this case, the Q1 grade will come from the old section, so prepare grades for the dropped student in the period 1. However, in order to ensure a proper S1 grade calculation you should also copy these grades over to the new section so that his final grade will be based on this Q1 grade. | ||
There are many other scenarios, when in doubt please contact the guidance counselors or the PowerSchool administrator. | There are many other scenarios, when in doubt please contact the guidance counselors or the PowerSchool administrator. |
powerschool/powerschool_dropped_students.1524459252.txt.gz · Last modified: 2018/04/23 04:54 by Sirkka, Douglas