Setting up zero credit courses

Susan Blaisdell

We have some graduation requirements that students must pass in order to graduate. These aren't actual courses, but are demonstrations of learning. My thought was to create them with a zero credit course with a pass/fail grade? Ideas?

Brian Gray

@Susan Blaisdell - We do something similar to what you're describing for our Fitness Activity requirement. (Students are required to participate in an approved organized activity - team sport, mountain biking, caving, etc) for a specific number of terms/seasons, depending on what grade they were in when they entered the Upper School.

We do NOT use the Diploma requirements feature. I don't know if/how what we do would work with that.

We have a zero-credit course. I created a separate Grade translation to record CR (credit) instead of pass/fail. Because students are not required to participate every term, we don't enroll students in the course until they earn the credit.

I work with one of the assistant athletic directors (who manages the whole thing) to get a list of students who should get the credit each season. I create a section of the course for each grade level, use a data import to enroll the students who earned the credit, then use another data import to record the CR grade.

We put the course on the report cards and on an unofficial transcript that students and parents can generate at will. We do not include the credits on the official transcript.

Jamie Cross

@Susan Blaisdell We use student checklists for this. You can make them visible to students and\\or parents, but we do not. We just use it for internal use to keep track.