Grade Notifications (failures)

Amy Welsh

Our school is looking to set up grade notifications. I see all the notifications that parents can opt into for missing assignments / posted grades, etc. but we are specifically looking for a notification that parents can opt into that will send an email when a student scores below a certain threshold. Anybody have any ideas?

Chris Felinski

Hi Amy - I have asked about this functionality before and it doesn't exist and I was told to add it as an idea. I would love for a notification to be automatically sent out if a student's cumulative grade was less than a 59%, or for us, if a student has certain assignments that are missing…

We end up emailing our parents whenever this happens. But an automated system would be nice.

Jess Moxsky

There used to be a CORE API that would allow you to GET assignment grades, and I would have advised going that route for custom notifications, but unfortunately those endpoints did not get included in the new SKY API Teachers can click on the message icon in the gradebook to directly communicate with parents, but that still requires manual work which I know is not the goal.

Bryna Gleich

Jess Moxley:

There used to be a CORE API that would allow you to GET assignment grades, and I would have advised going that route for custom notifications, but unfortunately those endpoints did not get included in the new SKY API Teachers can click on the message icon in the gradebook to directly communicate with parents, but that still requires manual work which I know is not the goal.

To request new endpoints for SKY API, use the School category in this Idea Bank:

You may also want to mention it in the developer user community at:

We're actively adding new endpoints to it, including some currently in BETA testing.

By CORE API, do you mean the older ON API?

Sherrie Warren

Blackbaud does need to add this feature on sooner than later. Who has time to send emails or message individually.