Add functionality to flag students in the grade book

[jrussell52]

I'd like to be able to add flags to students in the gradebook, like "IEP" or "504" or what-have-you.

[jsimon3]

OK, So I am actually interested in this... I actually developed a script that fetched the accommodation status from the SIS and stored the information in the Students Custom data.... Which was a mess and we ended up not using it since our SIS accommodations status was convoluted, to say the least, or to be honest the who accommodations process might be hard for me to grasp. 
I used symbols to represent different accommodations>

I would be willing to work with you to rebuild to act as a selector vs a on SIS derived...

[Justin_Reynolds]

Sorry to resurrect this forum topic but we were asked about adding some type of flag/indication on a student with accommodations at the course level.  We'd like to keep the flag private so just that specific instructor is the only one that knows of the accommodation. 

I was wondering if you still have your script and how it works.  I really like what you have there in the screenshot.  

Thanks!

[jsimon3]

 

So, I actually approached this in a new way after that comment ages ago...

 

I created
a `custom gradebook column`( https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/custom_gradebook_columns.html ) 
that fetches data
from `users:customData`( https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/users.html#method.custom_data.set_data )
that is populated by a weekly cron job based on a C# application that is pulling data from our SIS...
it's not published but I can clean up an push out if you are interested...

it is based on:
( https://github.com/uvadev/UVACanvasAccess/pkgs/nuget/UVACanvasAccess ) 

[NoahBoswell]

Thanks for sharing,  @jsimon3 !