Fix Grade Book Printout Report (from Gradebook) to use Assignment Name (required), not Abbreviation (optional)
We discovered when launching a gradebook and running the Grade Book Printout report that the assignment headings did not populate in the report. Blackbaud confirmed that this is an issue due to a change they made for the required assignment fields. My idea request is for Blackbaud to fix this issue by either updating the Grade Book Printout report to use the Assignment Name (Title?) since that is now the required field, or to allow the choice of which field to use when running the Grade Book Printout report.
Here are the notes from the Blackbaud case:
"The report is looking for assignment abbreviations which used to be a required field, with the new assignment tool that is no longer required, so most teachers ignore it as an option. Using an abbreviation will populate that column header. I would recommend creating an idea to have this changed to assignment name instead or the option to use it at least."
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Erin Caprielian
- Oct 10 2023
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I agree! It is an issue with the teachers Missing Assignments report as well. We are new to Blackbaud and many teachers have not been using the abbreviations since it is not a required field so the missing assignments report is useless unless teachers change to begin using abbreviations.
This is such a huge design mistake. Abbreviations used to be required, and now it's obvious why. Gradebook reports use abbreviations. We have teachers run the "Missing Assignments" report from their gradebooks for student/parent meetings and now we will have to tell everyone they MUST use abbreviations or the report is useless. The reports need to either pull the full assignment title, which is required, or abbreviations need to be required again.