Role with View Only Access to Teacher Gradebooks

Our school limits the number of people who have the grade book and academic group manager roles for the pure reason that those roles have the ability to enter/change grades for a teacher's class. The grade book manager needs that ability, but then that limits who we would assign the role. The academic group manager can change grades when in the assignment center for a class.


It would be wonderful to have a version of those roles where they can only view the gradebook / assignment grades without being able to edit those gradebooks or grades.


I would like to give view only access to our Academic Dean to be able to view all grade books and assignments. I would also like to give our Department Chairs view only access to their department's gradebooks and assignments.

  • Adrian S.
  • Nov 12 2021
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    Michael Morrissette commented
    20 Oct, 2025 08:12pm

    Hello, Hello -

    We're currently conducting discovery around Department Chairs and the work they do. This feature request is one such enhancement we're looking at making. If you would like to participate in discovery, or if any Department Chairs at your schools would like to participate, feel free to use the link below to schedule a meeting with our product team. We'll be conducting 30-minute interviews throughout the month of November.

    Scheduling Link: https://research.rallyuxr.com/blackbaud/schedule/cmguxz69y1vidi8juciry807f?channel=share


    Mike
    Product Manager, Blackbaud

  • Erin Caprielian commented
    28 Oct, 2024 04:51pm

    Please merge with Ideas K12OR-I-181 and K12OC-I-663

  • Eleanor Page commented
    13 Sep, 2024 06:55pm

    We need this for our department chairs. Giving them Gradebook Manager access is not a good solution.

  • Erin Caprielian commented
    11 Sep, 2024 12:27pm

    Hoping this will be reviewed soon; our principals need this access.

  • Lauren Henderson commented
    20 Nov, 2023 03:10pm

    Yes please! Gradebook View Only access is a high priority for our upper school department chairs.

  • Kim Davis commented
    21 Nov, 2022 04:37pm

    Part of the role of a department chair is to help develop teachers. Being able to give department chairs and even our division head read only access would be invaluable to teaching the teacher. Without have to worry that someone might mess up someones gradebook unintentionally.

    I would like to give our Department Chairs view only access to their department's gradebooks and assignments. Ideally this role should be able to filter by department not just by school level.

  • Ana Meneses commented
    18 Nov, 2022 02:07pm

    Ideally this role should be able to filter by department not just by school level.

  • Guest commented
    18 Nov, 2022 01:59pm

    We need view only gradebook access for Department Chairs with the ability that they can only access their department and not schoolwide

  • Guest commented
    14 Nov, 2022 08:14pm

    Yes please!

  • Guest commented
    14 Nov, 2022 03:12pm

    Please make this happen! Our department coordinators could use this.

  • Guest commented
    14 Nov, 2022 03:11pm

    yes we want that too! Our department chairs need this

  • Lori MacConnell commented
    30 Sep, 2022 04:11pm

    Yes, we have department coordinators who would also benefit from this. Right now, we have to give them more access than they need only to allow them to see the information and to export the reports to Excel format.

  • Jeanne Townsend commented
    18 Feb, 2022 04:14am

    We want our department chairs to be able to check their department's gradebooks to ensure that all sections of the same class have their gradebooks set up the same way. But right now the only way for us to give them access to see the gradebooks also gives them full editing privileges, which they don't want, and we don't want them to have!

  • Michele Bella commented
    12 Nov, 2021 10:08pm

    one step further. the roles that can be assigned need to filtered more. Like anyone with Platfrom manager role can impersonate. That should be more limited.