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Administrator Guide
Last Updated: 2024-01-12
Concept: Grade Point Averages

Concept: Grade Point Averages

Workday calculates grade point averages to help you measure a student's success in their courses. Workday calculates GPAs according to your configurations, but you can also override them using the
Maintain Cumulative GPA Overrides for Student
task. Workday derives all GPAs, except the Program of Study GPA, on the Academic Period Record business object when a user accesses a page with a GPA or runs a custom report using a GPA field. We calculate the Program of Study GPA when you generate the Academic Progress report and save it (?) on the Academic Period business object.
Registration Groupings
Registration Type
Description
In Residence
Course Registrations, Reactivated Historical Registrations, Internal Articulated Registrations when there's a course registration.
Transfer Credit
External Articulated Registrations where the source is an External Course Record; Internal Articulated Registrations where the source is an External Articulated Registration.
All
Course Registrations, Reactivated Historical Registrations, Internal Articulated Registrations, External Articulated Registrations.
Attempted/Earned/Included in GPA
Workday classifies courses as either
Attempted
,
Earned
, or
Included in GPA
.
Attempted
courses are registrations with a grade that doesn't have an audit grade category type assigned or the grade isn't factored into the GPA.
Earned
courses are registrations without an audited grade that are also marked as
Earns Credit
. When contained in a repeat record, the registration must be live in order to be considered earned and to be included in the GPA. When the
Leave Past Periods Unchanged
check box on the
Create Course Repeat Rule Set
task is true, then the registration can be the derived live registration and Workday includes it in the GPA.
Earned
courses don’t include registrations with acredit loss reason.
Courses
Included in GPA
are registrations without an audited grade that are also marked as as
Include in GPA
on the
Create Student Grading Scheme
task. When contained in a repeat record, the registration must be considered the live registration or derived live registration when the
Leave Past Periods Unchanged
check box on the
Create Course Repeat Rule Set
task is true. When the
Include All Repeat Registrations in GPA
check box is true, Workday includes all registrations whether or not they’re live.