Where did Manage Enrollment go?

Hi Scott Chrysler‍,


I want to make sure your idea gets seen.  This original post is over a month since it was posted...

 

One thing I have seen work very well to use the power of the people in Community is to create a new post with the link to the idea you want implemented, then asking others to vote for the idea.  


You might find an idea similar to yours or create a new one by clicking the idea tab and searching.


Here is an older example of how an idea is publicized in a different community.  You can copy her verbiage to make it easy for you!   https://community.blackbaud.com/forums/viewtopic/213/40728


In harmony,

Elizabeth

Blackbaud Community Team

Thank you Scott Chrysler‍ for sharing your real life ideas to make the software help you grow social good in the Community!


On a personal note, thank you for being an educator.  I am homeschooling and witness how much our teachers are accommodating my kids to make this change be as positive of an experience as possible.  I know you and everyone else in our education world is doing the same.  All the best!


Elizabeth

Good afternoon everyone!
 
We are still making improvements and changes to the Student Enrollment tab and Edit Student Enrollment dialog and we so appreciate your continued feedback. We wanted to call attention to some recent updates that just became available with today's (5/12) release.
 
Improvements

• Making the current section size visible within each cell of the grid on both the Edit Student Enrollment dialog and Find a Section dialog
• The Find a Section area is now a full-page display
• Changing the context menu (three dots beside student name in the list) to a one-click Edit button

As a reminder, access to the previous Manage Enrollment page is temporary and will be removed this summer prior to the start of next school year. 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 are still continuing to make updates based on your feedback.
 
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. Your input is invaluable to ensuring the product performs as you need.
 
Thank you all!
 
Best,
Elizabeth
Blackbaud UX Designer – Student Information System

It would also be incredibly helpful if the course/section columns were frozen when you scrolled to the right!  Our middle school runs separate periods for each grade level, and it becomes really annoying/error-prone in the new enrollment manager - when you scroll to the right to view a 7th or 8th graders enrollments, you then have to scroll back to the left to make changes (or to remind yourself about which course is in which row.




 

Megan - I have noticed the same thing and have opened a ticket on this.  I feel like it is hit and miss when it works.  Also, in my ticket, I noticed that when you change a schedule, thus removing the "green" filled in box, there is a still a conflict listed on the period block.  This was also included in my ticket that I opened, and I haven't heard anything in about a week.

Patti - this is our second year of doing the master schedule and scheduling in general in this system.  Previously we had Education Edge and for 10 or 11 years it was a much more smooth process doing the master schedule and doing enrollments.  As I see the changes that are being made, it appears that Blackbaud is trying to emulate Education Edge, but until the features are fully built-out and functional, this new interface is more cumbersome and challenging.  As I already mentioned, we have the block conflict that doesn't disappear when you change a class until you save and close then come back in.  Same thing if you move a student into a class that has hit it's max and you are prompted if you want to do it.  You click confirm, and nothing happens, but it actually puts the student in the class because when you save and close then go back in, it will show the student is there.  Beyond the "any term" issue that was already mentioned, we ran into the issue where the "any term" class would show up in both semester, and instead of disappearing as an option for the semester it wasn't scheduled for, the request was there both semesters and sometimes the student would be scheduled for the same single request both semesters, and the other "any term" course didn't get scheduled at all.  (this issue appeared to be resolved on the 5/12 update because it hasn't happened since - but I am not fully sure as the weekly release notes no longer list the fixes in the system).  I can see where Blackbaud is going with this new interface, but with the number of issues we have had, we are using the old interface.  Until some of this basic functionality is fixed, and we have more powerful filtering options when we use the "save and next" feature (such as filtering by a specific section, not just gender or grade), it is cumbersome right now.

I do like the ability to see the current enrollment in the new grid view without having to click on each section - that's an improvement.  And later in the day yesterday, the "any term" section drop-down was working.


I did manage to find a back-end way to use the old view if you prefer it.  From the "Requests and Recommendations" list, in the "three dots" menu next to a student you can click on "Edit enrollment" instead of "Edit requests" and get to the old grid view.  (Blackbaud folks - please please please don't take it away from that spot!  At least for now while the new version still has some kinks being worked out)

Is anyone else struggling with the fact that the courses are all listed alphabetically in the scheduling window rather than by course preference? Through the course request page, we entered preferences for each elective, and now in the scheduling screen, I can't see those preferences at all. I just see the courses listed in straight alphabetical order, which is of no help. Am I missing something? If you've found a solution or have faced a similar difficulty, I'd welcome any feedback!

Hi everyone, I wanted to make sure you saw the announcement about the survey dealing with Manage Enrollment and Edit Student Enrollment. It should take about 5 minutes, and it will help us make the whole process work better for you. Please click here to read the announcement and take the survey. Thank you!

Just discovered the FILTER options for the Student Enrollment list - my life just became 100% easier as I try to balance section enrollment. I would like to suggest - I was going to add this to my survey but the survey closed last Wednesday - adding a filter for specific courses. I have 9th through 12th graders in Spanish II, so when I am working with a scheduling issue in the course,  I need to keep scrolling through the entire list of upper school students. Being able to filter on "Spanish II" would make life even easier. If this filter had the option of including multiple courses, ie Spanish II and AP Calculus BC, it would be EVEN BETTER!


I would say the filter should include any students who scheduled or requested the selected course.


Stay well.


Scott

I have one more question related to changing a student's enrollments--not sure if there's a better place for it.  Sometimes when I add a class to a student's enrollment, it adds twice.  If I remove one, both disappear.  If I add it back, it's back twice again OR it's back once, but then once saved, it disappears.  Video attached.

I'd like to be able to search for students using their Preferred Name on this page, just as I can in the People Finder. Right now, it only returns results for the student's first or last name.