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Allowing only unfinalized courses with a minimum of one mark entered to be included in GPA calculation of Student Table

Kate Potter

February 25, 2015 23:59

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With the way the GPA calculation currently works in the student table when you include unfinalized courses, it treats any course that has no marks entered as a the student having a zero in that course.  This skews the GPA calculation terribly, especially considering when you look at any student's individual marks, anything with no marks enters shows as blank (no mark) rather than an "F".  Could you only include unfinalized courses that actually have marks entered rather than counting blank unfinalized courses as fails and reporting inaccurate information?  Without this change, this feature is completely useless.

In our school, part way through the second semester we pull a GPA list of all the students in each class (freshmen, sophomore & junior) to determine who has the highest GPAs for our academic awards.  We would like to use current information (not just from the first semester) but the including those unfinalized courses with no marks entered yet has changed some students from a 4.0GPA to a 3.53GPA (obviously a major issue).

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  Sarah Barkman February 26, 2015 15:05

  We do a mid-term check of all our students who are on academic probation and academic watch and I have come across the same issue, often having to look at each individual student's courses to find out what their GPA is really at. At the midway mark of the semester we often have 25-30% of our courses that have no grades entered yet. Like Kate indicated this skews the GPA a lot. A student who is normally at a 3.5+ GPA can be sitting at a 2.0 or lower in this case, which can cause some alarm until I check each individual course to see that there are no marks for 2 or more of their courses.

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  Julia Erickson April 11, 2018 16:09

  Has anything been changed regarding this? We are having the same issue. Is there a way for a course without any assignments entered not to be seen at a 0% that affects the GPA?