Taylor Awards
The Taylor Awards program creates a list of students who qualify for the Taylor Awards.
Menu Location
On the left navigation panel, select Student Master > Interfaces > Taylor Awards.
Setup Options
Year - Defaults to the current year. A prior year may be accessed by clicking in the field and making the appropriate selection from the drop down list.
District - Default value is based on your security settings. You will be limited to your district only.
School - Default value is based on your security settings. If you are assigned to a school, the school default value will be your school site code. You will not be able to change this value. If you are a supervisor or other district office employee with access to the Student Information System, you will be able to run programs for one school, a small group of schools, or all schools in your district.:Grade: The user can click in the field to select the grade level or levels to be included in the report.
GPA Type - The user will need to select the GPA type to be used to determine qualification for the Taylor Awards.
Detailed - All marking period grades will be used to calculate the GPA.
Semester - Only the semester grades will be used to calculate the GPA.
Final - Only the final grades will be used to calculate the GPA.
GPA - The user will need to select the GPA to be used to determine qualification for the Taylor Awards.
Loaded - 5.0*Unloaded - 4.0
Sort By - The user can determine how the report will be sorted by selecting one of the choices for this field.
Update GPA - Button: Clicking on the Update GPA button will take the user to the Update GPA Utility. This is used to update GPA's before running the Current GPA report.
Year - Defaults to the current year. A prior year may be accessed by clicking in the field and making the appropriate selection from the drop down list.
District - Default value is based on your security settings. You will be limited to your district only.
School - Default value is based on your security settings. If you are assigned to a school, the school default value will be your school site code. You will not be able to change this value. If you are a supervisor or other district office employee with access to the Student Information System, you will be able to run programs for one school, a small group of schools, or all schools in your district.:Grade: The user can click in the field to select the grade level or levels to be included in the report.
Grade - Grade level of students whose records need to be edited or whose names are to be included on a report. Leave the field blank if all grade levels are to be included. Otherwise, click in the field to the right of Grade(s) to select the desired grade level(s) to be included.
Marking Period - select the marking period(s) for which you are re-calculating grades.
Calculate marking period GPA by course credit - use the course catalog credit value for calculating GPA's
Include incomplete grades in GPA calculation - The letter I would have a grading scale value in calculating the GPA and the student would have a gpa.
Do not create GPA on incomplete grades -The posting of a letter I grade would not give a student a GPA.
Click OK on the GPA set up box to update the GPA's.
Click the OK on the intial set up box to bring up the list of selected students.
To find definitions for standard setup values, follow this link: Standard Setup Options.
Main
Column Headers
GR - Displays the student's current grade level.
Student Name - Displays the student's name.
School Name - Displays the name of the student's school of enrollment.
School Address - Physical address of school
City - Displays the name of the city where the physical address is located.
State - Displays the state where the physical address is located.
Zip - Displays the zip code for the student's physical address.
GPA Alpha - Displays the student's alpha GPA (A, B, C, etc.).
Stu ID - Displays the student's 7-digit student ID number.
Act GPA - Displays the student's current year cumulative numerical GPA.
Homeroom - Displays the name of the student's homeroom teacher.
Bottom
Setup - Clicking the Setup button will display the original setup box with the previously selected settings displayed.
Print - To find the print instructions, follow this link: Standard Print Options.
Help - Clicking on the Help button will take the user to "Student Master" in the help system.
