Define different credits for students in the same course
Sometimes, on transcript records, you might need to enter a different number of maximum credits earned for students who took the same course.
For example, assume you create an English course to add to the transcripts
of students who transfer from another school. Some students might earn
3 credits if the course at their school was a semester course. Other students
might earn 5 credits for a trimester course. If you type 3 in the Credit
field for one student’s transcript, you do not want the system to calculate
a lower rank and GPA
grade point average than it does for
students who earned 5 credits for the same course.
To have the system calculate credits correctly if you enter different maximum credits possible for the same course:
- Enable the Potential credit override field in the Data Dictionary.
- Add the field to
the student transcript template a page with a predesigned, customized format, such as the Student Detail page(student.std.list.trn.detail).
Note: If your
