Merge Ideas

Megan Day

I know the Google form we used to be able to use to suggest merging community Ideas has been gone for awhile but my teachers are getting to the end of their ropes on dealing with Online Assessments. I wanted to go in to the Ideas area and up-vote a bunch of Ideas that have been in place for over 4 years and noticed multiple similar ideas. How do we go about suggesting Idea merges now? My only thought was to submit a case to support but that seems excessive. Is there a better route?

Elizabeth Perron

Hi Megan,


Do you have the ideas you would like merged identified?  If so, could you put the links of the ideas in this thread?


This will provide a starting point and I will reach out to our internal teams.


In harmony,


Elizabeth

Blackbaud Community Team


*Also, it makes me sad to hear your teachers are getting to the end of their ropes.  Has anyone in your Blackbaud Community member network suggested a workaround that has worked for your school?

Megan Day

Hi Elizabeth,


Thanks for your response. Here is what I have so far but I'm sure I missed a few. Some are not exactly the same idea but they are different ideas/solutions to the same issue that teachers experience. There are a few Ideas where someone lists multiple ideas in one post so I've tried to indicate that. 


Allow retake for graded assessments
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-979
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-126


Extend Due Date is Confusing
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-1373
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-1111 (All of these people don't know you can even use the "Extend" option for students because it's so confusing.)


Edit/Modify Assessments
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-1386
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-1432
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-1261
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-1792
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-1946


Save & Next
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-1368
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-796


Print/Export Assessments
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-1624
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-353
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-1724
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-2275 (Multiple ideas)


Extended Time
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-112
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-2271
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-2275 (multiple ideas)
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-1292
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-2235


Navigating between Grade Book and Assessments
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-1259
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-84


Password Protect
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-2275
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-1245
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-1104 (or other ways to secure assessments)


Block/Allow certain students to take assessment
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-1723
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-1239
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-1


Assessment "Close" Time or Due Time
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-498
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-229
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-1139 (Related to other ideas as well)


Assessment Bank
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-1355
https://blackbaudk12.ideas.aha.io/ideas/K12OC-I-1946


The work arounds we've come up with on our own or with suggestions from support or members of the community should only be considered work arounds, not permanent solutions. Most of the things that frustrate our teachers about the Online Assessments have frustrated them since we started using onCampus and very little change has been made with Online Assessments since that time. 

Elizabeth Perron

Megan,


Thank you so much for the time and information you have provided.  I will forward this post to our product developers.  My guess is they have already seen your list!


Please give me a couple of days to get back to you.


In harmony,


Elizabeth

Angie Addison

Thanks to both of you. I will definitely go through these and consolidate where they are the same. I usually go through all of the ideas and do cleanup when we're starting an improvement initiative on a feature, and then here and there on others as I can fit it in. I did actually pitch that we start thinking about getting an assessment project in the pipeline several months ago since we have a lot of idea traffic in that area. There are several things on the timeline ahead of being able to think about a large initiative in that area, but Megan Day‍ if there are a couple of things in particular that you'd put emphasis on I can investigate whether there's opportunity to squeeze some minor ones in. If you want to reach out directly I'd be happy to take a look!