Adam Bilsky
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Overview
This article explains the Course Code Report, an exportable spreadsheet available under Quick Actions > Generate Transcripts. This is a term-based report, which means it will only pull data from those date ranges you set as terms. For more information on managing terms, read here.
Contents
What it Looks Like
Report Options
From the Transcript Page, select the student(s) and the term(s) on which you wish to report, then click "Generate Transcript." You can see the completed report in your report window and download it from there.
| Note: If you select multiple terms, you must make sure the terms do not overlap, or you will get duplicate data entries. For example, a semester and the full year should not be selected in the same report. |
Report Summary
The Course Code Report is often used by schools who use a traditional course-style format but allow students to earn credits with interdisciplinary experiences. These schools still need to report to their state boards of education how the credit was earned.
The Report lists every credit (or fraction thereof) earned in a student's learning experiences. For schools that allow students to complete interdisciplinary projects, this is critical. Interdisciplinary projects contain learning targets from different subject groups, or even different subjects. Foundry helps advisors distribute credit for the whole project among the various subjects.
For example, a student who designs a project about global health issues might demonstrate skills in geography, statistics, political science, and health education. Her advisor might assign fractional credit for each subject containing those learning targets.
The Course Code Report, because it is a sortable data table, allows observers (like a State Board of Education) to see both the complete learning experiences that encapsulated the interdisciplinary learning and the diffuse learning experiences that earned required course credits.
What it Contains
The spreadsheet contains the following information, from left to right:
- Student ID, last name, first name
- Subject, subject group, course ID
- Experience type (the form used to create the experience), credit earned (fractional by Subject Group), grade and GPA (if assigned)
- Evaluator name and ID (sometimes the advisor who evaluates an experience is not the same advisor who created it), experience title, and the date the credit was earned.
How to Use the Report
The CCR was originally created for schools in Minnesota that needed to provide data on non-traditional learning experience formats to the state. It is still intended for this purpose, but it is a valuable research and analysis tool because it comes as a spreadsheet.
This article will not presently explore all the various insights that can be extracted from the report. However, it is worth noting that you can run the report for a single student or multiple students, which can provide a wealth of sortable, filterable, analyzable data. You might compare different students of the same advisor, a student's performance with different advisors, the narrowness or breadth of certain learning experiences, etc.
Because it is primarily meant to report on credits, the Course Code Report does not contain data on individual learning targets.
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