Class Rank Still Useless - rant

Kerre Conerly
Kerre Conerly
Fourth Anniversary Kudos 1 Name Dropper Facilitator 1
in Blackbaud Student Information System™

I just did a search of ideas. I found at least three ideas posted regarding class rank and how we cannot exclude withdrawn students from the rankings. These ideas were posted in 2017, 2018 and 2020 with comments as recent as Oct. 2021. These ideas have been voted for 145 times - yes, I'm sure there are duplicate votes. However, I've seen ideas implemented with far fewer votes.

I cannot print class rank on my transcripts because of this. Others echo the same complaint. Class rank is useless when the class number is wrong in the first place.

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  • John Ronan
    John Ronan
    Tenth Anniversary Kudos 5 Name Dropper Participant

    @Kerre Conerly, We use class rank very sparingly. [generally, only for military college apps, etc.], so I'm only mildly ashamed to say that I didn't realize it was including withdrawn students. ?

    Can I ask the BB folks monitoring this what the logic is behind this?

  • Mary Kay Nelson
    Mary Kay Nelson
    Third Anniversary Name Dropper Facilitator 1 February 2024 Monthly Challenge

    @Kerre Conerly I just noticed this yesterday when I ran a grade calculation and had 4 students on the list who were past-students! This is very frustrating!

  • Elizabeth Perron
    Elizabeth Perron
    Eighth Anniversary Kudos 5 Name Dropper Participant

    @john ronan

    The avenue to ask developer related questions is in the Idea website managed by our product management team. Just click Ideas in the K-12 community navigation > ask your question in the comment section of one of the Ideas @Kerre Conerly refers to in her post. (I recommend you signing in so they can see your name.) Got Ideas? Blog

    I am grateful for ya'll using the community to share peer-to-peer feedback, best practices and connection.
    In harmony,

    Elizabeth

    One of the BB folks monitoring ?

    #HowToUseCommunityIdeas

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