Manually Created Sections and Grade Pass-back to Power School

[benjamin_yoder]

     So with this whole COVID thing going on, we are currently running a hybrid schedule. For the purposes of this post we will call them Group A and Group B. I have all my sections for each class period, but then within those class periods, we have the 2 groups, thus I created 2 new sections in canvas- Group A and Group B. I then edited each student's section and added them to their appropriate group. This way, I can assign certain assignments to specific groups depending on if they are at home or at school. I can also adjust the due dates for each group as well.

     The problem I have run into is the Grade Pass-Back to Power School. When I go to sync the grades, they don't show up in power school. I know these manually created groups don't have an SIS ID, but the students within those groups are still connected to their original class period and the SIS ID that goes with it.

     Is there something I am missing? Is it not possible to do this? And thus brings me to this forum...hoping a bright intellectual can help our whole building out or tell us we can't do it. I just want to make sure if there is a way to do it, I can help a lot of people out!

[laura_clark]

Benjamin, have you learned anything more about this concern? We are new to GPB and are seeing the same problem. This is how our teachers are differentiating assignments since assigning to individuals won't pass. Thanks.

[carter_kruger]

Hello, 

We encountered the same issue.  Was there any solution that you found?

[benjamin_yoder]

Here is what I did for the first semester. I continued to use the 2 groups, but rarely did I assign different things to each group. It would be nice to give each assignment its own special due date for group A and group B, but its not possible if you want to use Grade Pass Back. Instead, I just assigned one assignment to "Everyone" and made the due date whatever it was for Group B. If there were assignments that only one group would do, then I would assign it to that individual group and then enter the grades into PowerSchool manually. It's not the most convenient method, but I rarely had complaints or found it to be extra work. As long as you are lax with your due dates and what the students see as the due date, grade pass back can still work just fine this way.

[carter_kruger]

Thank you for the response...very insightful!