At our institution, there's a time where a student drops a course, but needs a "W" grade. For the transcript template, there's a setting that allows for drop courses to show on the transcript, but it would then display ALL dropped classes. We only need to show a dropped course with a "W" grade on the transcript for academic standing, SAP and completion rate. Our workaround has been to leave the student enrolled and post "W" grades... this is not ideal. Also a student may withdraw from the institution with "W" grades, so need to account for this variable as well
We also need to have a W show on the transcript for dropped courses. We cannot keep a student in the course because once they drop the course, they are picking up something else.