All right, you are viewing a template of our transcript.
This is the template you have access to if you chose our option
to edit our transcript layout with specific classes and grades.
So, this video is just to give you a breakdown of the template
and kind of help you understand the basics of a transcript and what goes into one.
Up top, we just have basic information about the school.
And over here, we have student information.
You can fill this out as you would like it to appear
and you can remove things that you may not want, such as gender and date of birth.
The main purpose of this video is just to break down the basic understanding
of how coursework works, how to get grades, etc.
Obviously, up top here, we will see each semester.
Typically, let's say you wanted to graduate in June of 2004,
which would be spring of 2004,
then we would put at the very last semester spring 2004
and we would basically go backwards.
If spring of 2004 was our last semester,
the previous semester would have been fall 2003.
And then again, we just count backwards to get to the first semester,
which would have been the first semester that school was attended.
Inside each semester, we see a list of coursework.
Coursework includes the subject code.
If it's an English course, typically will be ENG. History is HIS.
Then, you have the class number or class code and then you have the class title
or the name of the class or course.
You are going to want to edit this coursework with the classes you want.
Next, we focus on grades.
In this semester example, we show a few different things.
This is actually going to be the amount of credits that the class is worth.
Now, there are different situations where a class might be worth less
or more than three, but for samples of this demonstration,
I’m going to say that all classes are worth three.
So any time that you pass a class, you earn credits.
Whether or not you get a D or an A, you pass,
you get your credits for that class.
So, in this case, there were three classes, three credits.
I'm sorry, we're taking over four classes.
So, there was a potential to earn 12 credits and since all were passed,
all 12 were earned.
Now when it comes to this column here,
this is the actual quality points that were earned.
Quality point is basically simple math.
An A is worth four, a B is worth three, a C is worth two, and a D is worth one.
So, what we do is we actually will, assuming this was an A, it was four;
we'll do four times three. That's twelve quality points.
A B is worth nine, nine times three is nine quality points.
So, that's how we get the quality points for this column.
So, what we do is we add up all the quality points here,
and then if we take all the quality points divided by the number of credits earned,
that gives us the GPA for this semester.
So that being the case, we would do the same thing for every single semester.
We would calculate the unique credits attempted and credits earned,
we would calculate the unique quality points here,
and in turn, we would divide the quality points by the credits earned to get the GPA
for that semester.
Now, if we go down to the very bottom
what we would do is we would add up all the credits earned for every single semester
combined under final results.
All the quality or credits earned for all the semesters here
and again. all the quality points that were earned for every single semester.
So then we take the total quality points for every semester
divided by the total credits earned for every semester
and that gives us our overall final GPA.
So that is basically how you calculate a transcript.
The rest of the document again down here,
you can repeat information about the degree that was earned,
the school name, and again, repurpose the graduation date.
Now, this template is merely a suggestion.
We are showing you a layout that we think is very traditional and common to a transcript.
You have the capability of completely reformatting this document,
putting it in any order that you want and we will print it,
but keep in mind that we will print exactly what you do and what you send to us.
So, I highly recommend that if you do that to go file up top and word, go to file,
print, and then in the print preview here to the right,
make sure everything is lined up.
A lot of times people will edit the template
and they don't take the time to make sure everything is lined up.
And then they're upset when they get the document mailed
and nothing is properly formatted.
So we're either going to suggest that you leave the document alone,
leave it as is, and just edit the information,
but if you do choose to completely reformat it by moving
theschool name to a different corner or completely reformatting
how the coursework is listed, you have every right to do that.
But again, make sure that you are happy with the actual document
because it will be printed out as is.
If you do find all of this too complicated
and you would like to have us do the work for you,
meaning put the coursework in, calculate it, do everything.
We do offer an upgraded service for that
and you can certainly contact support ticket and let them know that you need to
upgrade because you're finding the process of editing your own transcript to be too difficult.
But otherwise, it should be fairly simple to figure out
and if you have any questions,
the production team will try to help you as best they can.
Thank you for your time.