Allow classes (or activities) that appear on schedule, but not progress page.
For our middle schoolers, we need a way to show student utility periods, recess blocks, lunches, etc. that appear on a student's (and parent's) schedule, but not on the progress page.
Attendance needs to be taken and a teacher needs to be assigned, but there's no reason that we need to update a student or parent on their lunch or library time progress -- this is cluttering the progress page and making it look like students have 20 teachers when they really just have 7.
We have tried adding these as classes without a grade plan group. We have tried adding them as activities. But in all cases, when we go to the access page, schedule and progress are tied together.
I confirmed this via chat help earlier today - progress and schedule are always tied together.
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Sarah Shartzer
- Jun 13 2022
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We really need this! We talk all the time about making the most of our system, but the more we add to the system so that students and parents can see things on their schedule, the more cluttered various lists and pages get!
Below are some suggestions for how to provide the control we're looking for:
The ability to choose which items show only on the schedule, but not on the student record > Progress tab or student/teacher 'My Day'
The ability to order Classes and Activities so that the most important ones show up first. We currently use the letter 'x' in front of things we want to drop to the bottom of the list. There are fields on the Course record > Details tab for 'Sort By' and 'Course Type', but these don't seem to affect how classes show up on the Progress tab or My Day.
The ability to use a symbol (*, ~, `, -, #, etc.) in the Course Name/Activity Name to order the Classes/Activities in a way that makes the less important ones drop to the bottom of the list. Using symbols brings the item to the top of the list right now!
Thanks for considering any of these changes!
100% agree with this idea. At a student's perspective it cutters up there group drop down section and progress page. There should be an extra column in the group page access to add for Schedule list only instead of the list only.
Until this happens, could you use activity groups instead of classes? I believe you can take attendance in anything in the schedule but it would at least sort those groups to the bottom of their Progress page.