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.

  • David Gillespie
  • Jan 12 2017
  • Implemented
  • 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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  • David Gillespie commented
    October 05, 2018 14:53

    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.

  • Guest commented
    May 25, 2017 20:16

    I've created a similar idea that I have linked here: https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OR-I-1102