Please Include the "Transcript Categories" for credit Accumulation to the New Transcript

The "Transcript Category" is very useful in counseling, when checking Juniors and Seniors credits for graduation.

  • Claudia Jimenez
  • Aug 1 2019
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  • Taylor McBride commented
    26 Sep 15:45

    This feature is the only reason our school is still using the old transcript builder. Not having credit accumulation/transcript categories at the bottom is a critical piece of information missing for our counseling team :/

  • Danielle Keeney commented
    June 01, 2023 18:15

    Credit accumulation by category is important to the upper school and college counseling and its ability to be shown on the transcript. We use it on the old transcript setup. It should not be a running total like the new transcript credit block does.

    Similar idea: https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12CO-I-3496

  • Tonya Axworthy commented
    April 04, 2023 15:08

    PLEASE add the transcript categories back in for credit accumulation to the new transcript!!!!!

  • susan vaughn commented
    April 26, 2022 13:20

    We allow a few courses to be counted in categories other than the one for which they are marked in the system. Could there be a way to manually change the category under which a credit falls for individual students? Computer Science is an example where some students may take it as a world language or as an elective.

  • Guest commented
    January 19, 2022 18:59

    Yes, PLEASE add transcript categories back in - we need this to show we've met the state graduation requirements


  • Ashley Wiley commented
    December 01, 2021 17:51

    Please Include the "Transcript Categories" for credit Accumulation to the New Transcript Builder. Schools need something more simple than the diploma feature.

  • Julie Dennis commented
    November 03, 2021 20:38

    Please add transcript categories/credit accumulation tally to the new transcript. This was on our transcripts with our old SIS (a VERY old program dating back to the 80's). We were disappointed to learn that we had taken a step backward with the implementation of Blackbaud.

  • Joshua Blice commented
    September 24, 2021 11:44

    Jacqueline - so far I like the new feature but where we are getting stuck is if students can choose which transcript category an elective will fall under. For example, Dance at my school can count as Fine Arts or PE, I would love to allow the registrar to be able to mark for the student to see. Two things I also noticed are: 1) there is no way to bulk assign a diploma to all students (unless I am just missing it) and 2) once you assign a diploma to a student, any future updates do not show up for any students already assigned a diploma. I would love to discuss more if you have time next week.

  • Admin
    Jacqueline Koca commented
    September 24, 2021 01:54

    Hello all!
    We recently released Diploma requirements for the SIS. Based on the comments on this idea, it sounds like that should solve what some of you were using the Transcript Categories setting on the previous builder for.

    For those of you that would still have a need to report out the students accumulation of credits for specific categories on the transcript itself even with the option to track progress towards graduation separately, I would love to learn more to determine what options we could explore with the new builder.

    Thanks so much!

    Jacqueline

    Product Manager, SIS

  • Amy Sanga commented
    August 26, 2021 18:56

    This is necessary for graduation requirements and without it, the process is tedious and cumbersome.


  • Guest commented
    March 18, 2021 16:23

    Agreed. Currently the only piece missing from our transcripts that is crucial.

  • Matthew Poirier commented
    January 05, 2021 21:31

    I agree with all the below comments. This is a huge missing piece for us on our transcripts.

  • Sarah Koziarski commented
    September 03, 2020 12:18

    I totally agree with Inger and Rob. The inability to do in-house credit tracking and reporting to colleges makes this unusable for us since many of the universities we often send to require the breakdown. I have spent a ton of time creating the new transcript and to find this out now is a total deal breaker. Extremely disappointing.

  • Joe St.Clair commented
    June 02, 2020 16:39

    Additionally, please let schools elect to sort by Transcript Category FIRST, so that they can do a quick and easy credit count. Currently, the default setting is 'by year' first, and makes this impossible.

  • Rob Ladage commented
    May 28, 2020 14:08

    I totally agree. This is a show stopper for us to move to the "new" transcript builder. Most schools report it this way.

  • Inger Cierniak commented
    May 04, 2020 19:11

    The previous transcript builder included the functionality to total credits per transcript category. Currently, counselors or colleges must look at each and every course title to decide if the student has completed the requisite number of credits for English, Math, Science, etc. For example, it is difficult to tell if a Forensics class is a Science credit (think CSI) or an English credit (debate).

    We are limited to the "old" transcript until this issue is implemented in the "new" transcript builder.