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 +===== Manually Entering Grades in Historical Course Grades =====
  
 +Enter a student's transferring grades one at a time for incoming students. Alternatively, use the Multiple New Entries function on the Academic Record Entry page to enter a single grade. Most schools use the Academic Record Entry page to enter all grades.
 +
 +===Manage Single Historical Grades Entry===
 +
 +  - Navigate to the Historical Course Grades page.
 +  - Click Single New Entry. 
 +  - Enter the name of the school where the student received the grade.
 +  - Enter the year for which you want to enter a grade.
 +  - Enter the store code that your school uses for the term in which the student earned the grade.
 +  - Enter the grade level of the student when they received the grade.
 +  - Enter either the Course Number - Section Number or the Course Name. If you provide a course and section, this grade will be associated with the student's enrollment in that section and will print on report cards. If you supply only the course name, the grade will print on transcripts but not on report cards since it is not associated with an actual section enrollment.
 +  - Enter the name of the teacher who taught the class.
 +  - Enter the letter grade the student earned.
 +  - Enter the number of grade points the student received for this grade.
 +  - Enter any added value for the grade points, such as 1 for one additional grade point. You can also use fractions of a point.
 +  - Enter the percent grade the student earned.
 +  - Enter the citizenship grade for the term.
 +  - Enter the number of credit hours the student earned in the course.
 +  - Enter the total number of credit hours the student could have earned in the course. The number of earned credit hours and potential credit hours must be the same.
 +  - If you could not match the course in which the student received this grade to a course at your school and you entered a course name, enter the credit type that counts towards the requirement if this grade fulfills a specific graduation requirement at your school.
 +  - Determine whether to Include or Exclude the grade in the GPA calculation.
 +  - Determine whether to Include or Exclude the grade in the class rank calculation.
 +  - Determine whether to Include or Exclude the grade in the honor roll calculation.
 +  - Determine whether to Include or Exclude the grade in the graduation calculation during the permanently store grades process. This field only appears if Repeated Course Grade Suppression is enabled for the selected school.
 +  - Determine whether to Include or Exclude the stored grade in transcripts.
 +  - Enter any comments from the teacher.
 +  - To override the section or course's grade scale grade suppression policy, choose the grade suppression policy you want to apply. Once a selection is made, stored grades associated with this grade scale will be evaluated based on the selected grade suppression policy during the permanently store grades process. This field only appears if Repeated Course Grade Suppression is enabled for the selected school.
 +  - Determine whether to Include or Exclude the grade in the Grade Suppression calculation. The repeated course suppression process automatically runs after clicking Submit. This field only appears if Repeated Course Grade Suppression is enabled for the selected school.
 +  - Click Submit. 
 +
 +You can edit a stored grade on an individual basis. To update a stored Historical Grade, click the grade you want to edit, make the necessary changes, and click Submit. Alternatively, you can delete a stored grade however, you are not only deleting the grade from the historical record, but you are also deleting the class from the student's permanent record. Though this function does not delete the class from the master schedule, the student's historical grades for this class cannot be retrieved once deleted.
 +
 +
 +===Create Multiple Historical Grades Entries===
 +
 +This option for entering historical grades is helpful when a student transfers from another school and all previous grades must be entered in PowerSchool.
 +
 +  - Navigate to the Historical Course Grades page.
 +  - Click Multiple New Entries. 
 +  - Enter the name of the school where the student received the grade.
 +  - Enter the year for which you want to enter a grade.
 +  - Enter the grade level of the student when they received the grade.
 +  - Enter either the Course Number - Section Number or the Course Name. If you provide a course and section, this grade will be associated with the student's enrollment in that section and will print on report cards. If you supply only the course name, the grade will print on transcripts but not on report cards since it is not associated with an actual section enrollment.
 +  - Enter the name of the teacher who taught the class.
 +  - If you could not match the course in which the student received this grade to a course at your school and you entered a course name, enter the credit type that counts towards the requirement if this grade fulfills a specific graduation requirement at your school.
 +  - Determine whether to Include or Exclude the grade in the GPA calculation.
 +  - Determine whether to Include or Exclude the grade in the class rank calculation.
 +  - Determine whether to Include or Exclude the grade in the honor roll calculation.
 +  - Determine whether to Include or Exclude the stored grade in transcripts.
 +  - Enter the letter grade the student earned.
 +  - Enter the number of grade points the student received for this grade.
 +  - Enter any added value for the grade points, such as 1 for one additional grade point. You can also use fractions of a point.
 +  - Enter the percent grade the student earned.
 +  - Enter the citizenship grade for the term.
 +  - Enter the number of credit hours the student earned in the course.
 +  - Enter the total number of credit hours the student could have earned in the course. The number of earned credit hours and potential credit hours must be the same.
 +  - If you could not match the course in which the student received this grade to a course at your school and you entered a course name, enter the credit type that counts towards the requirement if this grade fulfills a specific graduation requirement at your school.
 +  - Click Submit.
powerschool/powerschool/historical_course_grades.txt · Last modified: 2024/06/04 15:00 by jrhea