Graduation requirements allow you to track students’ progress towards graduating. You start by defining degrees with different credit, course, and test requirements. Next, you assign these degrees to students. As a result, you can run reports to compare student progress against assigned degrees to track completed and missed graduation requirements.

This article will cover the following topics:

Creating Degrees

The first step in setting up graduation requirements is to create degrees in your system. If students at your school take different paths to graduate, then create a degree for each path. Most schools create one or two degrees only.

To create a graduation requirements degree:

Go to Main > Grade reporting > Graduation Requirements
Create Degree
Enter in the degree description
(optional) mark if this is the default degree
Save

Creating Degree requirements

Once the degree is created, you can begin adding specific graduation requirements. There are five types of requirements that can be assigned to a degree, which can be seen below.

Degree Requirements	Description
Overall Credits	Total number of required credits to graduate
Required Credits in Subject Area(s)	Total number of credits required from any one department or area of study i.e. Mathematics
Required credits within a set of courses	Used when a student takes one or more sections from a defined list of courses in order to graduate. For example, a student may need to take a credit in history, and can take either world history, US history, or State history to satisfy this requirement
Required course(s)	Individual course(s) that are required of every student to graduate
Required test	A school-wide or grade-level-wide test that students need to take to graduate. For example, a state constitution test. For more information on creating tests, please look at the following article

To create degree requirements:

Go To Main > Grade Reporting > Graduation requirements
Click view on the desired degree
Create degree requirement
Select the type of requirement
Enter in the specific fields for that requirement type
(Optional) Give the requirement a title
Save

Assigning degrees

Once degrees have been created, and requirements have been added to the degree, the final step in setting up degrees is assigning them to students. We recommend mass assigning degrees to save time. You can also mass remove a degree following these same steps below.

To mass assign degrees:

Go To School Main > Grade Reporting > Graduation Requirements
Assign students
Select which degree to assign
Select which students you want to assign this degree to
Save

Running the graduation requirements report

Run the Check Graduation Requirements report to view students’ meeting or missing graduation requirements tied to their degrees.

To run the graduation requirements report:

Go To School Main > Grade Reporting > Graduation Requirements > Check Graduation Requirements
Select which degree you want to check requirements on
Select who to show on this report
Decide if you want to show all students, students meeting graduation requirements, or students not meeting graduation requirements
Decide if you want to display the students current year schedule
Choose the output format
Configure the following options:
- Show details for each student (may take a few minutes) - selecting this option will show a breakdown to see if a student is meeting each individual degree requirement. If this is unchecked, it will only show if the student has met their graduation requirements
- (Can only be select if the above mentioned is option is select( Show breakdown for each graduation requirement - This will show the graduation requirements for each student, and list the classes/credits that are being used on each specific requirement
Generate Report