Mark Usage Report Page

This report allows you to analyze how marks are being used in your building. The report is sorted by staff name by default so you can analyze usage by teacher. The last page of the report includes mark usage information for the building.

For a selected mark type, you can specify the marks to include. You can choose up to 10 marks or create up to 10 groups of marks. Mark groups allow schools that use a numeric grading scale to include more grades in the report by grouping them together. For example, if you want to see how many students received marks 100 - 90, 89 - 80, 79 - 70, 69 - 60, 59 - 50, 50 - 0, you could create 6 groups. For each mark or mark group, the report prints either the number of times the mark was issued or the percentage that the mark usage represents.

In addition, the report includes the numeric average that students earned for a course. The average is calculated as the sum of the point values for marks divided by the number of marks issued. The report uses the point value for the marks from the level table specified in the Master Schedule Course Level field.

Run Mark Usage Report

Select Mark Reporting > Entry & Reports > Report Card Reports > Mark Usage.
Specify the report options.
Click Run.
Use the Tasks/Reports options on the Navigation bar to view task status and retrieve reports.

Fields

Prompts Panel

Field	Description
Building	Building for reporting mark usage.
Report Card Run	Report card run for reporting mark usage.
Percent or Number	Indicates whether usage should be reported as a number or percentage. Select: Number - to print the number of occurrences for each mark or mark group. Percent - to print the percentage for each mark or mark group relative to all marks.
Mark Type	Select the mark type for reporting mark usage.
Marks to Include	Select whether you want to include individual marks or mark groups and then select the marks to include. Select: Choose Individual Marks - to report individual marks. Then select up to 10 marks to report individually. The totals for all other marks will be included in the Other column. If your building issues + and - marks for alpha marks, but you do not want to list usage for each separately, check the Use +/- marks box to include the + and - mark in the total for the alpha mark. Create Mark Groups - to report on groups of marks. With this selection, Mark Groups fields display for defining up to 10 groups of marks.
Mark Groups	Fields for defining the mark groups to use for reporting mark usage. You can define up to 10 groups. When you select marks in the Marks field, a set of fields displays for creating another mark group. These fields only display if you selected Create Mark Groups in the Marks to Include field. Group Label identifying the group. Character/255 Marks Marks to include in the group. Select codes from the field's drop-down list, or click (asterisk) to select all codes, then remove any that do not apply. (Delete) To delete a group, select the row's Delete checkbox. The group is deleted when you click Run.
Marks to Exclude from Average	Select the marks to exclude when calculating the numeric averages for courses. For example, if you do not want withdrawal failures (WF) or withdrawal passing (WP) marks to affect the average mark value for a course, select WF and WP. Select codes from the field's drop-down list, or click (asterisk) to select all codes, then remove any that do not apply.
Use +/- Marks	Checked if you want to combine + and - marks into a single column. For example, if your building issues A+, A, and A-, but you want to report mark usage in one column for all A's, then select this checkbox.
Log Statistics	Checked if you want to print the prompts in a log file. Otherwise, a log file will be created only if an error occurs.

Sort Panel

Use the Sort panel to specify how records should be ordered in a report. You enter lines of sort criteria; the system compares your sort criteria against the corresponding fields in the records being searched and displays records in either ascending or descending order based on the sort fields.