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.

Workday uses the 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.

Course Classifications

Workday classifies courses as either Attempted
, Earned
, or Included in GPA
.

Attempted:

Course registrations with a grade that doesn't have an audit grade category type assigned or the grade isn't factored into the GPA.

Earned:

Course registrations that don't have an audited grade and are 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 a credit loss reason.

Included in GPA:

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.