Translate Student Unit Attempt Outcomes - ASSJ5390

Subsystem

Assessments

Purpose

This job translates recommended unit offering option grading schema grades to any overriding course offering pattern grading schema grades that may apply to student unit attempts.

A relationship must exist between the unit offering option grading schema and the overriding course offering pattern grading schema. This relationship is created in the Maintain Grading Schema Grade Translation (ASSF5120).

Normally Run By

Assessments specialist

Anticipated Frequency

At the end of each teaching period 

Update Process(es)

Updates student unit attempt outcome records while translating grades

Parameter Sample

Related/Dependent Jobs

 

 

Update Process

This job translates student unit attempt outcomes where:

  • A grading schema has been recorded for the course offering pattern.
  • The Unit Grading Schema Precedence indicator has NOT been selected for the unit offering option grading schema.
  • The student unit attempt outcome has not been 'finalised'.
  • The student course attempt status is not UNCONFIRMED or DELETED.
  • The student unit attempt status is ENROLLED.
  • A relationship between the unit offering option grading schema and the course offering pattern grading schema has been created.

Outcomes are always keyed/recorded using the unit offering option grading schema. If the above conditions are satisfied, the translation process updates the existing outcome grade based on the mapping that exists between the grade in the unit offering option grading schema and the grade in the course offering pattern grading schema. For example: the keyed unit offering option grade is D - Distinction. The unit offering option grading schema is mapped to a PASS-FAIL course offering pattern schema, such that all pass grades are linked to the grade PASS. When the translation process is run, the 'D' grade is updated (translated) to PASS.

 

Run Details

This job is run at the end of the results processing cycle in teaching or assessment periods and before the finalisation of outcomes.

This job can only be run in batch mode. Refer to the Job Control and Scheduling subsystem for details on scheduling and running a batch job.

 

Job Parameters

Most parameters in this job are used to refine the set of student unit attempts that are selected for translation.

The Allow Translation of Invalid Grades parameter allows the user to choose whether to translate invalid mark/grade combinations or not. This will normally depend on the policy of the institution.

 

Report(s)

 

 

This process does not produce an exception report. However, it does produce a log file listing any exceptions encountered.