We need to be able to run attendance reports by class that spit out a sensible spreadsheet, not a twenty-page document with info in strange orders. Here's what would be great:

A spreadsheet with roster running down the left column and dates running across the top. For each kid, for each day, we could see if he was absent or tardy. Basically I'd like an attendance report that is an easy to read as keeping an old fashioned paper roster of attendance. Is this really so hard to manage?

Similarly, it would be nice to run gradebook reports that look like spreadsheets instead of convulted lists.

The reports are absolutely one of the worst aspects of the software.