The selection of Missing and incomplete Assignment buttons should insert an "I" or "M" into the Assignment Grade and Marking Column Grades
This feature is available in FAWeb in the marking column; I think it is important that it is available in both the Assignment and marking columns in the OnCampus gradebook. Right now teachers have to also insert a "0" into the assignment column to force the Incomplete to show in the Student View, which skews the cumulative grade. There should be no cumulative grade if there is a missing or incomplete assignment.
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Audrey Peebles
- Oct 4 2015
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Jun 29, 2017
Admin response
I am happy to announce that we addressed this idea with the June 28th Gradebook Improvement release!
We now support shortcut keys and expose the assignment status icons in the Teacher Gradebook. Here are the release notes detailing the updates:https://www.blackbaud.com/files//support/helpfiles/education/k12/release-notes/Content/ReleaseNotes/release-notes.html
Thanks for your feedback and helping us deliver better software!
Jackie
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- +38
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Allow for letter codes that will mark for comments in the gradebook automatically
Merged The red "dog ear" in the gradebook is not easily clickable. A quicker way to mark grades missing or exempt in blackbaud was to mark a grade as M for missing and X for exempt. Could we have that coded so when a teacher marks an assignment as an M i...3 Implemented
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In the gradebook when an assignemnt is marked Exempt, Incomplete, Missing, or Late it would be nice if the first initial of that designation could appear in the grdebook cell for that assignment. For example if a teacher marked an assignment as "Late" then an "L" would appear in the gradebook cell for that assignment. If not a letter then could the cell change color to reflect a designation other than an attendance issue.
Merged This idea is useful because a teacher does not know what the red triangle means in the cell and has to look it up. It would be better for them to be able to see at a glance what is designated as Missing or Late.2 Implemented
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Allow I/M/L/X typed into Gradebook for Incomplete/Missing/Late/Exempt
Merged Teachers regularly used the letter codes in FAWeb that quickly allowed them to mark items as late, incomplete, missing, etc. An "M" in a cell automatically calculated as a zero in our system, and was seen as a temporary grade until the assignment ...9 Implemented
Related ideas
The method you implementation does not address the issue presented in these three (merged) requests. All you've done is to implement a shortcut way to initiate the missing, et al, statuses. To remove these statuses, it still requires too many clicks when dealing with a full class/schedule of classes and a full complement of assignments The intention of these requests was to have the I/M/X, etc. to be in the actual grade input box, which would then be replaced by an actual grade when the student turned in the assignment The grade calculation algorithm would know to read an M as a zero, and X as an exempt, etc. and compute the grade accordingly as FAWeb did. I suppose an alternative approach would be to allow the shortcut entry of I/M etc to initiate the status, then if a number is input in the box, the teacher is indicating that the status no longer is appropriate and thus would automatically be removed by the software.
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Hi All!
We have some pretty awesome updates headed to the onCampus Grade Book this summer! Check out our blog story:
http://k12hub.blackbaud.com/h/i/345744891-sneak-peek-oncampus-gradebook-improvements-coming-summer-2017
The improvements include exposing the grade book status icons to Teachers and supporting shortcut keys. We're also going to be updating the Student Assignment Center to add better distinction between labels and actions. And we're adding status' for Incomplete and Missing so Student's have better insight into the Assignments they need to make up.
Here's a sneak peek at the prototype:
https://screencast.com/t/CI7nlWtlNyF
What do you think? Are we on track to resolving this request and getting this very popular idea closed out? Or is there something else we need to consider?
Thanks!
Jackie
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I definitely vote for "E" for exempt, "M" for missing, and "I" for incomplete. I find myself forgetting what a a particular blank means.
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It is nice to have both options - inserting the 0 and having it impact cumulative, or inserting "I" or "M" rather than leaving a blank to not impact cumulative. I agree with comment below, if letters are going to be an option it seems to make sense to include all, not just M & I.
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It would be helpful if an E would populate the marking column grade if Exempt was selected.
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