Allow withdrawal date before end of term without dropping student's classes
Proposal: We need to be able to enter the real withdrawal date for a student without the system automatically dropping them from their courses. Currently, if the actual wd date is before the end of the term, their classes are automatically dropped, including from the previous term for multi-term classes. Thus they don't show on the transcript (unless you designate show dropped courses, which is impractical because you may not want ALL of a student's dropped courses to show.) To avoid these issues, you must choose a wd date after the term ends. However, then that incorrect "fake" withdrawal date shows up on the transcript. Having the students automatically dropped from courses is a big problem for these reasons.
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Jane Gallardo
- Aug 6 2020
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We are dealing with this right now. We now put the end of the school year as the withdraw date or else all of our year long classes will be dropped. We then go back in and edit the departure date to reflect the actual withdraw date.
I agree 100% as well. Our database should only reflect real data.
I agree 100%. Entering false withdraw dates so students are not dropped from courses that they actually completed poor practice. Our database should be the source of truth when it comes to data not fictious dates to make it work as it should.
At least give us the option not to drop students from classes when withdrawing.
Agreed, this part of the system needs a good looking at. The mid-year leaving student makes us enter an incorrect date to make the system work. Then we have a data point that is not reliable. Please fix!!
Agree, this is a big problem, and TBH I don't understand what the function of the "depart date" is if it's not to resolve this. We should be able to accurately note when a student withdraws without their academic record being annihilated.
Just to add to this, this is a compliance issue with Clearinghouse as well. We need to accurately record a students Last Date of Attendance and a date after the end of the term is not allowed.
Yes please! This is sorely needed.
This is killig me right now.
This is an absolutely awful bug, and I really wish they would make it a priority.
This would be extremely helpful for our school if a student self-selects out of Honors and drops to regular, we keep it on the transcript
It happens often enough that a work around with fake dates inadequately describes a students path through our curriculum