Ontario Student Transcript Report

The Ontario Student Transcript Report (OST) was developed to provide an official and consistent record of the Ontario secondary school credit courses successfully completed by a student. It is issued for any student meeting the selection criteria listed below, upon completion of courses, transfer, or at any time in the future upon request by the student. The report can be only printed on the ministry's English blank forms.

Selection Criteria

Selection criteria determine which database records are used in the report. Refer to the selection criteria for analysis when the report does not return the correct records.

A student's transcript can be printed by:

An error message is displayed and the student is not output in the following scenarios:

When the report is run from district level, it is smart enough to find the latest school the student is enrolled in and print the school information and the entry date of that school.

Normally the report does not include cross-enrollment students; however, the report, at the user's option, includes cross-enrolled Grade 8 students. This allows the report to be run for a Grade 8 student at either the elementary school of primary enrolment or at the secondary school at which the student is taking secondary classes.

Graduation Contract Selection

A student must have an active graduation contract selected in order for compulsory credits to be determined. If a student has more than one active graduation contract, the report uses the one with the lowest sort order for the student (i.e., lowest [GPStudentPlan]SortOrder).

Student Selection

The report selects records from the Students table based on the following criteria:

  1. The Student's grade level must be 8 or higher.
  2. The Student is included in the subset of currently selected students (if applicable).
  3. The Exclude From Provincial Report flag ([Students]State_ExcludeFromReporting) for the student must be off.
  4. The report is printed even if the student has no marks to be printed and no community hours are posted.
  5. If "Ignore Student Exclusion" is unchecked, a student is excluded if either the student's Exclude From Provincial Reporting flag ([Students]State_ExcludeFromReporting) is on, or if his/her attendance type i.e., EnrollmentType field= 'EX' (excluded) for the enrolment (Students or ReEnrollments record) associated with, in whole or in part, the run date (i.e., if there is any overlap between the enrolment start and end dates and the run date).

StoredGrades Selection

Only secondary courses for which [S_ON_CRS_X]Course_Type is 'M', 'L', 'P', 'O and blank) are included for secondary students and elementary grade 8 students.

The report selects records from the StoredGrades table based on the following criteria:

  1. The StoredGrades record has a ministry course code. If [Courses]Alt_Course_Number is undefined, [Courses]Course_Number is used.
  2. The StoredGrades record is not excluded from GPA (i.e., [Courses/StoredGrades]ExcludeFromGPA for the associated course is off).
  3. The StoredGrades record contains a final mark, or the course is subject to full disclosure. Note that ESL/ELD or credit recovery courses that would otherwise be subject to full disclosure are not included. This includes courses for which any of the following are true:
  4. Only Grade 9 and 10 courses for which the student earned credit (i.e. passed) are included. If the course is a repeated course, the following rules apply:
  5. For non-zero credit courses, the StoredGrades potential credits are greater than zero. For zero credit courses, the mark type ([S_ON_TRB_X]Mark_Type) for the StoredGrades store code is "F" (final).
  6. If a course is designated as an alternative or modified curriculum - i.e. [S_ON_SEC_X]/[S_ON_CC_X]/[S_ON_SGR_X]Transcript_A or Transcript_M flag is on - the student is deemed to have passed the course regardless of mark or credit earned. However, if the course is not subject to full disclosure (see next point), the class is not included even if the full disclosure flag is on.
  7. If the student does not complete or fails a course, and the course is not subject to full disclosure, the course is not printed. A course is not subject to full disclosure if:
    1. 4th character of the ministry course code = "1" or "2" (i.e. Grade 9 and 10 courses)
    2. a language course is not subject to full disclosure if:

    i. - course code starts with 'LN' and the course level is 3 or less (i.e. 4th character of course code = 'A', 'B', or 'C')

    ii. - course code starts with 'LV' and the course level is 1 (i.e. 4th character of course code is 'A')

    iii. - course code starts with 'L' and the course level is 2 or less (i.e. 4th character of course code is 'A', 'B' or 'C')

    The report excludes courses where [StoredGrades]ExcludeFromTranscripts = 1.

    The report excludes PLAR courses for which credit earned = 0. These include:

    Course Repeats

    The Report uses a common function to check for repeated credit courses. please refer to Appendix L for logic details. For a non-credit course, the report uses the [StoredGrades] record for which the mark type ([S_ON_TRB_X]Mark_Type) for the store code is "F" (final).

    Printing from an ECPP School

    The report prints the Designated School defined on a student's record and if not defined, the Designated School defined on the ECPP facility for the student is printed. If the ECPP Facility is not defined for the student, the Designated School defined for the school running the report is printed.

    Report Input

    For help with navigation and running the report, see How to Find and Generate a Report.

    Field

    Description

    Select Programs to show in Awards/Special Programs

    Select "All Programs" (the default) or select one or more entries from the list of Programs to print in the Specialized Programs section of the report. Only selected programs are printed. Select "None" if no programs are to be printed. Only programs for which the "Available For OST/Status Sheet" flag is selected appear in the list.

    Current Selection Students

    Report can run for the current selection of students. Student Grade level (9-12) is considered for inclusion in the report run. the report can run for a max of 4,500 students when the Set Accessibility flag is on and 31,000 students when the Set Accessibility flag is off.

    Select the order in which students should appear in the report:

    If the distribution period sort is selected, the specified distribution date and period are compared to the meeting expression for each of a student's scheduled classes to determine which of the classes is used to define the sort key value for the student.

    This parameter applies only when the report is sorted by the distribution period. The report determines, for each student, the class that meets in the specified period on the specified date. Sorting is performed based on the course name and section number for the class. The default value is the system date.

    This parameter applies only when the report is sorted by the distribution period. The report determines, for each student, the class that meets in the specified period on the specified date. Sorting is performed based on the course name and section number for the class.

    Include Only Currently Enrolled Students

    If selected, only the students that are actively enrolled ([Students]enroll_status = 0) are included.

    Ignore Student Exclusion

    Indicate whether the Exclude From Provincial Reporting flag or an attendance type of "EX" (excluded) should exclude a student from the report. If unchecked (the default value), a student's flag and attendance type are examined. If checked, a student's flag and attendance type are not considered for student selection.

    Included Grade 8 Students

    Indicate whether the report should include Grade 8 students. If selected, Grade 8 students taking secondary classes are included, subject to other report selection criteria. If unchecked (the default value), Grade 8 students are not included. Note that including Grade 8 students causes the report to run slower. If Grade 8 students are to be included, it is suggested that the current PowerSchool student selection be set to include only Grade 8 students.

    Select this box to print an accessible version of the report.

    Report Output

    Each of the fields displayed in the output of the report is described below. See Understanding the Report Output Table for a definition of each column in the table.

    Data Element

    Description

    [Table]FieldName

    Header

    This is the date the Student Transcript Report was printed.

    Entered at Report Runtime in Date of Issue field. (Format: YYYY/MM/DD)

    The student's Legal Name. Format: Last, First Middle

    The Given Name(s) field contains First Name followed by first Middle Name followed by the first initial of the second Middle Name. Third and subsequent middle names are not printed.

    [S_ON_STU_X]Legal_Last_Name, if blank then [Students]Last_Name

    [S_ON_STU_X]Legal_First_Name, if blank then [Students]First_Name

    [S_ON_STU_X]Legal_Middle_Name, if blank then [Students]Middle_Name

    The student's Ontario Education Number.

    [Students]State_StudentNumber, if blank then [S_ON_STU_X]MIN_Number

    The student's student number.

    The student's gender.

    getStudentGenderReportValues function is used to get the student's gender type from the code sets tables.

    Genders that are Excluded from Reporting are not printed.

    'I' is printed for invalid genders

    The student's date of birth.

    District School Board

    The name of the student's district school board.

    [Prefs]Value where [Prefs]Name = 'DISTRICTNAME'

    District School Board Number

    The number of the student's district school board.

    [Prefs]Value where [Prefs]Name = 'DISTRICTNUMBER'

    The name of the school running the report. When run from the district it is the latest school the student is enrolled.

    For Grade 8 students, if the report is run at a secondary school, the name of the school running the report is printed. If run at district or from the elementary school, the name of the school with the latest class enrolment in a secondary school is printed.

    If the Secondary School to be printed is an ECPP School, the Designated School is printed.

    From ECPP School

    Designated school is printed instead of ECPP school

    For Enrolled Students: print the designated school: