Define Course Attributes

You'll use the Attributes tab to define the amount and method of credit awarded along with some settings linked to a district’s GPA and transcript policy.

About awarding credit

By sequence: Credit is awarded with term grade after completing each part. For example, if students pass the first part of the course, but fail the second part, they'll receive credit for the first part and none for the second part.

By course: Students have to complete all parts of the course to get credit, and credit is based on the average grade for the whole course. For example, if the average grade is passing, the student gets full credit, but if the average grade is failing, the student gets no credit.

By student advantage: If students pass only one part of the course, they receive credit for that part. And if their average for both parts is a passing grade — even if one part is failing — they receive full credit.

Define the course attributes

1. While in the Edit Course window, click on the Attributes tab.

2. Click Edit Attributes, and the fields become editable. Example

3. Complete the fields as described.

• Credit Offered: Enter the amount of credit rewarded for completing all parts of the course, then define the method for awarding credit. Click here for more information about the methods.

• By Sequence: Credit is awarded with term grade after completing each part.

• By Course: Credit is awarded based on overall grade after completing all parts.

• By Student Advantage: Students can receive partial credit even if they have a passing grade in only one part, and they get full credit if they have a passing average for all parts.

• Manual Only: Credit isn't awarded through the course completion process. Instead pass/fail coding must be manually defined within the student's schedule. This option is typically used for Credit by Exam, some credit recovery, and courses where an outside test is administered or outside work must be evaluated.

• Work-Based Indicator: Not used; leave default value.

• Curriculum Code: Leave the default unless you have contacted WebSmart Support personnel to setup custom GPA logic.

• Reporting Code: Options are: 1 - Include completed coursework on permanent record and 0 - Do not include completed coursework on permanent record. This code is used to designate whether or not a course is included on the permanent record and reported to TREx and PEIMS. For example, study hall and lunch are courses that might be added in order to schedule students for location and might be excluded from the transcript, while office aide is included on the transcript.

• Report Card Treatment: Options are: 1 - Include coursework on report card and 0 - Do not include coursework on report card.

• Course Type Code: This code is used to define the course sequence codes assigned to sections and determines which pass/fail codes are assigned during course completion. Select from —

• Other: Use for grades K-8 courses.

• High School Course: Use for courses designed for grades 9-12.

• Pre-K Course: Used to report PK courses to TSDS.

4. Click Save.

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