Where did Manage Enrollment go?

I would gladly settle for a Search feature that works. Just give me that. (Oh, and maybe the student enrollments with the blocks identified in alphabetical order.)  I'm losing precious time in my already fading life to clicking the arrow to get Zhu after finishing with Bowers. I'm losing my mind. And it seems that I cannot change school years--to check a students' prior enrollments--without leaving Student Enrollment; I have to go back to Academics, make the change, and the return to the dreaded arrow to advance to the kid I just left.

Could someone please tell me what the current "Delete" option does (that replaced the choice of "Error", "Drop", or "Transfer") on the Student Enrollment screen, when you click the ellipses to the left of a student's name in a current or future quarter?  Is it like "Drop" or "Error", or does it do something problematic on this screen, and should be avoided?

Our scheduler has been in pain the last two weeks.  We have provided feedback, but definitely feel that we all were put in an Early Adopters Program (EAP).  My colleague has had work twice as hard and lost confidence in the program and we both were frustrated by the process.  You all can do better.

When moving students from one section to another: I typically add a student to the new section of a class before moving grades and comments and withdrawing them from the old section. With the changes in Manage Enrollment, I don't seem to be able to enroll a student in a class that they are already taking. Is this true? Is there another way that I can do this so that I can place the student in the correct new section while the teacher takes time to copy over the grades? Thank you!

Amanda -


You can still do that via:


Academics > People Finder > Student's name > Groups > Academics > Manage


Hope that helps.


Scott

The edit layout for block schedules is not beneficial. It would be great if we could have both Fall & Spring semesters in the same viewing area. Also the Status field is not accurate, It will say in progress or completed when the student may not meet the criteria for a "complete schedule(every block filled).

Just want to add a vote for Chris's comment - it would be a HUGE help to be able to filter by class or course.

Part #2: Attached is what I currently see: courses in alphabetical order, as if that has anything to do with scheduling...and no teacher names.

I agree, this is a big problem and one which makes it very easy to make errors when moving students around.  Please, please fix this!

I called mid-January to speak with support to reinstate 'Manage Enrollment', which I thought had just disappeared from MY computer. When I found out that as of January 8 it had been removed from 'Scheduling', I requested that BB return it asap. I have been making student schedule changes in EE for years and was very happy to have the improved 'Manage Enrollment' feature. I particularly need the 'Enroll' screen which allows you to choose multiple enrollments from the list of all potential course sections that are clearly identified with section/block numbers and teacher names.


Until today, when I saw that Manage Enrollment is back for now, I was relegated to 'Student Enrollment', which is like going back to the dark ages. It is the same slow, multiple step drop/enroll process that I found so frustrating in the former version of EE that we used.


Thank you for bringing it back for now, and PLEASE keep it going!!

Good morning everyone!


Thank you again for continuing to provide feedback on the Student Enrollment tab and Edit Student Enrollment dialog. I've included updates below regarding some recently released changes, planned changes, and answers to a few questions. Keep the ideas/feedback coming!


I specifically want to call out two major updates

- New filters at the page level! A major request has been the ability to change the school level or school year without having to go back to the Overview page. With today's (3/3) release, this is now available! You can find the filters above the scheduling tabs.


- As many of you have noticed, with the 2/18 release, a notification banner was added to the top of the Student Enrollment page. This banner includes a link that will allow you or your users to access the previous Manage Enrollment page. This will be temporary and will be removed this summer prior to the start of the next school year. Although we hear you loud and clear that users loved and were comfortable with that page, unfortunately it cannot support new scheduling features that are being released. To prepare for it to be removed for good, we encourage you and your users to use the new page as much as possible and continue to provide feedback on what is missing to make schedule changes here just as easy! We will be continuing to make updates over the next few months based on your feedback.

          - Changes like this are also documented in our release letter. You can view current and past release letters here: https://webfiles.blackbaud.com/files/support/helpfiles/education/k12/panel/content/bb-k12-new.html



Now on to other improvements/resolved issues:

1. Recent Improvements:
   1. Default spacing of the columns to better accommodate longer block names
   2. 'Save' and 'Save and Close' buttons so users don't have to reopen the window if they want to save changes
   3. Course ID on the grid and in search changed to Course Code
   4. Displaying block with the section ID in the select section drop down
   5. Cleanup of when Error/Drop/Transfer displays vs Delete
   6. Updated Add request so the same course can be added multiple times
   7. Add request is now limited to courses actually offered in the term
   8. School level filter available on the Student Enrollment page
2. Improvements Planned:
   1. Hide Unfulfilled Requests option
   2. Changing context menu (three dots beside student name in the list) to a one click Edit button
   3. Researching freezing the top row and left columns (course name and section drop down) when scrolling
   4. Researching options for the course sort order
   5. Researching additional filters
   6. Researching options to better display more class section information with less clicks and be able to see multiple sections' sizes for a course at one time
   7. Researching options for seeing sections across a department rather than just a course
3. Resolved Issues
   1. Student search not filtering the list
      1. Resolved with the 1/22 release
   2. Performance improvements to the loading time of the window (many changes released but we are also still working on improving this)

If you have experienced an issue not on this list and have not already reported it through Support, please reach out to support to create a case. That will ensure the team has all the information needed in order to properly investigate any issues.

For ideas/feedback continue posting here, in the Idea Bank, or please feel free to reach out with a direct message if you'd like to share examples/information privately. 



Thanks so much!

- Jacqueline

SIS Product Manager

I know your group has made some sort of change to accommodate a "bigger picture" plan, but I believe you can tell from all the discussion on this subject that the users - the schedulers - did not have a problem with the old system and are not happy about this major change. I would like to ask that the "Manage Enrollment" tab be placed back as it was and function as it did, if possible. It sounds like no one asked for this change and we are the users of the system.


Thank you for your consideration.

If you are are taking suggestions for Student Enrollment enhancements, here is one that would be super helpful to me as I build a master schedule for 2020-2021 (have plenty of quiet time with distance learning now).


It would be tremendously helpful if clicking on student's name in the "View fullfilled/unfulfilled matrix" screen brought you directly to the Student Enrollment view for that child. Would save me tons of clicks, paper, and time.


Scott