Grading "Days Left" should calculate on Due Date not on Grading End Date
We close our grades to teachers a couple days after they are "Due" so they can go back in to make changes requested by the reviewer. Currently on My Day>Schedule & Performance it shows the number of "Days Left" until the teachers are locked out. What is the point of entering a Due Date if it does not show up anywhere? Please either change the calculation of day s left or display the due date
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Ryan Matyjasik
- Nov 11 2015
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You may be (understandably) misconstruing the purpose of the "Due Date" field. It's supposed to hold the last date of your marking period, i.e. of the quarter, trimester, etc, itself. onRecord will use this date as the last date on which a teacher's gradebook assignment could fall and still be factored into calculating the marking period grade when the teacher hits the "calculate" button.
I had the same confusion and thought that "Due date" meant the date by which teachers had to have their marking period grades entered.
That's actually the "End Date" of the grade entry period.
I'm asking Blackbaud to relabel these fields so that there's no more confusion!
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Any movement on this? Doesn't seem like a difficult fix.
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Yes! I made the very same request in March 2014 and got a reply from Mark Sargent that read in part, "So the Due Date should always be after the End Date." This is preposterous, of course, as any users know. The Due Date should always be the date the grades are due. The End Date must come after that. The countdown that the teachers see is tied to the End Date, which, frankly, is none of their concern and should not be displayed to them. It needs simply to be tied to the Due Date. One of my new faculty members missed the deadline at the end of the fall trimester because she was going by the days left shown in the countdown. By the way, Mark told me at that time that he had "a request to add this functionality and perhaps in the future we can add this capability." Seeing as how it's been nearly two years, and that the solution is a simple one, now would be a great time to fix this.
Thank you, Ryan.
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