Allow Grade Plan Reassignments to Courses
Currently, because grade plans are attached to the course, there is no way to assign a new grade plan to an existing course should it be needed.
Having to create a new iteration of the same course to attach a new grade plan seems redundant. Maybe associating courses with an academic year (for instance marking them active or checking of the academic year in a new section for the course in Academics>>Scheduling>>Requests & Schedules&Departments & Courses could be a way to track from year to year when the grade plan changes are made.
At our schools, the faculty are invited to collaborate on the skills with the admin, so grade plan updates aren't really being made until the end of 1st semester and again near the end of 2nd semester. If plans aren't open for grading for the year yet we though it would be possible to make grade plan reassignments if needed and just found out that we can't. The only way we could implement the new standalone grade plan now would be to create a new iteration of the existing/same course and the corresponding section for this year, and transfer the enrolled kids into the new class section.
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Karintha Marshall
- Dec 7 2018
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Our Province (State) dictates what the courses are called but can change how the marks need to be collected/presented. We need the ability to pull historic marks and create new marks for the same course. Being able to set Grade plans for course yearly could fix this issue without having to create new courses and clutter up the database with similarly named courses or having to rename older versons of the same course.
Similar to this idea, if the grade plans were by academic year, then this could be accomplished. My issue is that I want to change a grade plan for a course but the only way to do that is to create a new course in the system. In reality we are not creating a new course we are just changing the way we are grading it. Not very efficient or effective - now we will have multiple courses with the same description with different names and I suppose different course numbers when in actuality it is the exact same course. Very misleading. Please make grading by academic year and allow us to update the grade plan prior to any grades being entered.