Academics · Subject Resources

A report card
you can sign and file.

A term’s report card is the building block of a homeschool transcript. Enter each subject with its grade and credit, the days you taught and two comments. The generator works out the term GPA on the common 4.0 scale, totals the credits, counts days against your plan and prints a clean card with the grading scale on it.

Make a report cardWhat you get

Report cards

The worked example is made up: an eighth grader’s fall term, an eleventh grader’s semester with half credits and a dual-enrollment class, and a third grader graded pass or incomplete. Saved on this device only.

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What you get

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What you finish with
A record per student per term: grade level, term, school year, teacher of record, a row per subject with grade, credit and a note, days taught against your plan, a strength, a next step and five record checks. Prints a finished report card with the grading scale. Works out a credit-weighted GPA, credits earned and days short; flags low and incomplete grades, mixed credits and missing comments.
Who it is for
Homeschool parents and co-op teachers keeping term records, and students who want to see their own grades laid out.
Format
Browser report card maker with a saved record per term. Prints the finished report card, the full record, every term in a table or a blank form; downloads a spreadsheet (.csv); exports and imports a file.
Access
Free. No account, no sign-in and nothing to install. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Subject Resources space in Caveat Academics.
Support
Questions about access, an order or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.

How to use it

  1. Enter the student, grade and term.
  2. Add each subject with its grade.
  3. Give high school courses a credit.
  4. Write a strength and a next step.
  5. Print, sign and file it.

Make a report card

Grades, credits and the transcript

The common unweighted 4.0 scaleLetterPlainWith a minusWith a plusA4.0A- 3.7A+ 4.0B3.0B- 2.7B+ 3.3C2.0C- 1.7C+ 2.3D1.0D- 0.7D+ 1.3F0nonenoneP or Inot countedcredit if passednoneThe common unweighted 4.0 scaleAPlain: 4.0With a minus: A- 3.7With a plus: A+ 4.0BPlain: 3.0With a minus: B- 2.7With a plus: B+ 3.3CPlain: 2.0With a minus: C- 1.7With a plus: C+ 2.3DPlain: 1.0With a minus: D- 0.7With a plus: D+ 1.3FPlain: 0With a minus: noneWith a plus: noneP or IPlain: not countedWith a minus: credit if passedWith a plus: none
Some schools count A+ as 4.3, and honors or college courses are sometimes weighted. This card uses the plain unweighted scale and prints it on every copy.

From report cards to a transcript

Colleges and schools do not ask for homeschool report cards; they ask for a transcript, and the transcript is built from them. Keep each term’s card with a few work samples and, for high school, a short description of each course. When the time comes, the transcript lists every course with its final grade and credit, and the GPA is worked out the same way this card does it.

What a credit means

In U.S. high schools one credit usually stands for a full-year course, often described as about 120 to 180 hours of work, and a semester course earns half a credit. A homeschool family decides its own credits; what matters is applying the rule the same way every year and saying what it was. A college course taken in high school can appear on both the college transcript and your own.

Sources

  1. National Center for Education Statistics, High School Transcript Study: grade point averages on a 4-point scale and Carnegie units (nces.ed.gov).
  2. Your state’s homeschool law and record-keeping rules, from the state department of education.
  3. U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences: Carnegie unit as the standard measure of high school course credit.
  4. A college admissions office’s published guidance for homeschool applicants (transcripts, course descriptions and grading scales).

The worked example is made up. GPA scales and record rules vary; this card uses the plain unweighted 4.0 scale and prints it. Nothing you type is sent to Caveat. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.