About Graduation Plans

Per TEA regulations, all high school students must have a graduation plan. The plan defines which courses are necessary to complete the curriculum requirements for the Foundation High School Program. Students are required to pursue at least one endorsement during their ninth and tenth grade years, but can opt-out after completion of tenth grade. Graduation requirements can be found here in Chapter 74, Subchapter B.
http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter074/ch074b.html

Multiple graduation plans can be created in order to meet the needs of the students and school — one each for the FHSP plus an endorsement or a combination of endorsements — for example, 34 FHSP w/ STEM Endorsement

All transfer transcripts must be entered for course requests to work for transfer students. If they aren't entered, the schedule must be entered manually. Enter the transcript in Students > Student Manager > Permanent Record > Academic Performance History.

While the graduation plan is required, you are not required to configure it. However, once configured it is used in conjunction with the academic plan to drive course requests and aids in creating reports to review graduation progress.

About courses in graduation plans

Courses must be added to the graduation plan on the Components tab in order to use the automatic scheduling feature and automatically monitor course credits. The more detail you enter here, the more you'll improve the process of scheduling and the more helpful student reports will be in tracking a student's progress.

Not every course that falls under a category in the PEIMS C022 table can be used to satisfy the requirements for that category. For example, Reading 1 can't be used to satisfy an English credit on the graduation plan. See https://tea.texas.gov/graduation-requirements/hb5.aspx for more information.

If students change their endorsement focus, the courses will transfer to the new graduation plan and, if possible, be applied to the new endorsement.

About course requests

It is best to define as many of the required courses as possible in order to drive course requests.

WebSmart creates course requests based on the order of required courses in the graduation plan in conjunction with the academic plan.

When credits for a course are set to optional the system WILL NOT create a course request. It simply means that the course can be used to satisfy credits in the course area.

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