Different weight in same course?

Kelly Eisenbraun
Kelly Eisenbraun
Name Dropper Facilitator 1 Participant July 2025 Monthly Challenge
in Blackbaud K–12 Education Solutions™ General Discussions

Hello! I am new to Blackbaud, and though I searched, I could not find the answer to my question. We currently have moved select courses so that students must opt in and complete Honors Disctinction, which also adds additional weight to the course. For example, all students are in the Biology course, but select students have opted for the Honors distinction which grants them more weight for the course.

Though we can add the Course Distinction, this does not help with GPA/transcript weight. Is there a way for Blackbaud to do this instead of creating new courses, transferring grades, attendance, etc. for students who complete the Honors Distinction? Our registrar says it is about 50 clicks per student. Since students must meet all requirements through the year - we don't move them just because they say they are going to do the honors distinction only when they have completed the honors distinction for each of the semesters - and that is a lot of work to do it at the end of each semester so their class rank etc. is correct.

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  • Crystal Bruce
    Crystal Bruce admin
    Tenth Anniversary Kudos 5 February 2026 Monthly Challenge First Reply

    Hi @Kelly Eisenbraun - I am checking with my team on this. Thanks!

  • Crystal Bruce
    Crystal Bruce admin
    Tenth Anniversary Kudos 5 February 2026 Monthly Challenge First Reply

    Hi @Kelly Eisenbraun - I heard back from my team. Thanks for your patience in the response. Here is what they say:

    "Courses can have an alternate weight. And you can build out a GPA calculation that uses the alternate weight. However, there is currently no way to only run that GPA calculation for specific students (in this example only for students who have completed the Honors Distinction). The only way to limit which students get which GPA calculation is by grade level. There also isn't any way to manually add/edit a GPA calculation.

    Adding an extra credit assignment for those students would impact their report card grade but wouldn't add additional weight to the GPA calculation. 

    If they ALSO want the transcript/report card to list the class as "Honors Biology" then the only way to do that is to transfer the student from regular Biology into Honors Biology once they've met all of the requirements.

    These limitations are in place to ensure fair and consistent grading and consistently applied calculations."

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