Returning mastery skill grades with assignment grades?

Ozzy Simpson
Ozzy Simpson
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in Education Management APIs

Currently, it appears that the only API endpoint that returns student grades is the Academics graded assignments for student (BETA) endpoint. However, that endpoint doesn't return mastery skill grades for courses/assignments that use Blackbaud's mastery grading features. This seems like a glaring hole in the API for schools using this feature, unless this functionality is somewhere else that I have not been able to find.

Are there any plans (even for beta endpoints) to be able to return mastery grades by skill?

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  • Stephen Boyle
    Stephen Boyle Blackbaud Employee
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    @Ozzy Simpson and anyone else interested in getting skill grades via our API.

    This work is under review, so I'd like to get some clarity around the problem being solved. The graded assignments endpoint is paired to some degree with the Sections for a student endpoint which shows the cumulative grade for the section.

    • How do you intend to present the assignments' skill results data?
    • If you want the skill grades for each assignment, do you also need the ‘cumulative’ grade for the skills for each class section?
    • If so, then skills have an additional wrinkle. There are also Transferable skills that are not tied to class sections. Do you also need to present the ‘cumulative’ grade for those skills.
    • How do you intend to present the cumulative skill results data for skills - both class-specific and transferable?


    I appreciate any and all feedback.

    Thank you.

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