Handling Serving School Section Numbers Illinois for Student and Teacher Course Assignment Reports

 

Some schools have students who go to a serving school. The serving school sends the Teacher Course Assignment, but the home school sends the Student Course Assignment. Because some serving schools are using section numbers longer than 2 characters, we have added a field to allow for entry of a longer section number on a course in the course master that will match the section number from a serving school.

The field is called SR_Section and is set at 50 characters. It has been added to the following tables in the database:

Coursemaster
Coursemaster_NY
Coursemaster_SR
Transcript_Detail

Clients who have courses in the course master requiring a longer section number will fill in the SR_Section field in the Coursemaster and Coursemaster_NY tables. Clients who just manually enter Transcript Detail records for serving school classes will fill in the SR_Section field in the Transcript Detail table with the longer section numbers.

GPA Calculation
When posting to transcript, Transcript_detail.SR_Section will be populated from Coursemaster.SR_Section, if a section number has been entered in this field on the Coursemaster record. If no section has been entered, the field is populated with (Coursemaster.Course_number & Coursemaster.section).

State Reporting
Student Course Assignment: The report field “Section” will be matched to Transcript_Detail.SR_Section. This match will be forced to avoid user error.

Teacher Course Assignment (Ent and Exit): The report field “Section_Number” will be matched to CourseMaster_SR.SR_Section. This match will be forced to avoid user error. This field is populated when the report is run. The criteria are the same as above in GPA calculation.