Follow these steps to create a substitute answer sheet to provide a student with credit for having taken and passed a valid substitute course at a different school:
- Open a new record from the Answer Sheets service.
- Enter the student in the Student field. This field links to the Persons service.
- Select Substitute from the Type list.
- Regular suggests a regular exam for a class tracked in the Education Management system. See Creating an Answer Sheet for details.
- Substitute suggests the class taken is not tracked by the Education Management system but the Status (passed/failed) based on the points earned will transfer over. Therefore, by including an Answer Sheet record for the substitute class exam, the points can be transferred into the Education Management system.
- Enter the course offered by the organization for which the student took an acceptable substitute in the Course field.
- Click the Substitute Course tab.
- Select a school that offers an acceptable substitute course from the School drop-down list.
- This list displays the schools specified on the Courses record's Schools tab. See Schools Tab for details.
- Select the substitute course from the Course Name drop-down list.
- This list displays the substitute courses specified on the Schools record's Course School Substitutes tab. See Schools Tab for details.
Substitute Answer Sheet
- Change the student's Status to reflect his or her completion of the substitute course,.
- If using this substitute answer to transfer credit for a completed substitute course, you generally will change the Status to Passed.
- Enter a Serial # for tracking the answer sheet. This is a required field to save the Answer Sheet.
- Enter any additional information on the Comments tab.
- Save and close the Answer Sheets record.