Allow each report card column to display grades from multiple terms or types
We have courses that follow different term plans, some of which end in the term and others that continue onto another term. Including them all on a grade report means that we end up needing multiple columns to show the grades for each possibility. Since each course can only have a term grade or a final grade in a particular term, and can only have one final course grade overall, there are just spaces in the other columns and the grades stagger in a way that can be difficult to understand. Instead of each column holding only one term+grade combination, it would be helpful to build the report by column and choose which term(s) and grade(s) to include, rather than first choose the term and then make columns. Grouping by terms helps make it clearer, but also makes the report much longer. Sample attached.
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David Gillespie
- Jan 12 2017
- Implemented
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Aug 9, 2018
Admin response
This has been implemented with our new report card builder that was made available to all onRecord sites in the July release.
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As far as I can tell, this is not implemented. I'm still having to create separate columns for each "Fall Interim" grade that exists, one per grade plan. For families who don't understand the distinction between the classes (most of them), it just looks dumb. And since each course can only exist in one grade plan anyway so there's no chance of overlap, there's no reason a single column can't display one grade each from multiple plans.
The "old" report card builder allowed you to select one grade from each of the plans that were available, but now you actually have to build separate columns, which will appear even if empty. This design is now worse.
I've created a similar idea that I have linked here: https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OR-I-1102