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Academic Score Calculations
Use the student information system policy rules framework to calculate the academic scores, such as the grade point average (GPA), of students enrolled in an academic term.
Required Editions
| Available in: Lightning Experience |
| Available in: Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions with Education Cloud |
Set Up Academic Term GPA Calculations
Configure a context definition, policy rule, and flows to calculate the GPA scores of students enrolled in an academic term.
Required Editions
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To set up academic term GPA calculations: | Education Cloud Full Access |
Before you start:
- Ensure that Advanced Academic Operations is enabled.
- Customize and activate the context definition, EduTermGpaCalcCtxtDef.
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Create a policy rule customized to your requirements
with these details:
Use the sample expression set template available with Education Cloud, Ready_to_Use_TermGPACalculationES, to create a policy rule.Field Value Usage Type Term GPA Calculation Context Definition (As created in the previous step) - To validate the output, simulate the rule with a sample JSON input using the advanced input mode.
- To view the simulation results as an academic score report, select Academic Score Report View from the view dropdown.
- Create an academic term policy rule record. For Policy Rule, select the policy rule created in the previous step.
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Customize and activate the flows:
- EDU Student Information: Calculate Academic Term GPA
- EDU Student Information: Run Academic Term GPA Calculation Batch Job
- Provide create access to the standard user profile for the Academic Term GPA Calculation Event object.
Run Academic Term GPA Calculations
Initiate the rule-based process to calculate the GPA of the students enrolled in an academic term.
Required Editions
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To run verification and assignment for academic term registration timelines: | Education Cloud Full Access |
Before you start:
- Ensure that Advanced Academic Operations is enabled.
- From App Launcher, find and select Academic Terms.
- Select the academic term for which you want the scores calculated.
- Click Calculate Scores.
- If needed, monitor the batch job.
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After the batch process completes, view the academic score report.
- From App Launcher, find and select Academic Term Enrollments.
- Select the academic term enrollment record.
- Select the Academic Score Report tab and verify the results.
- To publish the scores so students can view them in Learner Progress Summary on the learner portal, click Publish.
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To view the log for a calculation run:
- From App Launcher, find and select Academic Term Enrollments.
- Select the academic term enrollment record.
- Select the Related tab.
- Under Academic Term Enrollment Policy Rule Log, select the log record.
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