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  1. Date Range needed

    I need to be able to look at enrollment for several date ranges not just a snap shot day. This is causing hours of compiling data to find this information
    Please adjust the date to include high and low.

    17 votes

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  2. Add 3 additional fields to the Absence Occurrence Report

    See the attached. Would be very beneficial to have three (3) additional fields added to the resultant report of the Absence Occurrence Report (WS\OF\AT\RE\AR\AO);

    fields to add:
    1) student's current school of enrollment (default entity)
    3) other id; AND
    2) student's current grade level

    reference attached

    16 votes

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  3. Percent of Class Attendance Report Add Other ID

    We are using this report to track students who are in need of making up hours to be in compliance for the 90% attendance rule in Texas. The other id would allow us to be sure that the correct student is being addressed. Also the ability to export the data in a spreadsheet format without having to convert the data from a .pdf would allow us to set it up on the job queue Other ID on report Export ability to .csv without converting it after it is run In Report area instead of a utility would be helpful.

    16 votes

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  4. Health office

    I think it would be great if the nurse or the health office aid added an office visit and selected "keep in office" that it would automatically show up in the student's attendance for that hour. That way the teacher could see it right away without having to ask the person in charge of attendance to do it or requiring a call to the teacher.

    15 votes

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  5. Precoded attendance show on attendance worksheets for substitutes

    It would be helpful if attendance that has already been coded like field trips, on campus testing, etc would appear on paper attendance for substitutes. This would save attendance clerks lots of times having to go back and forth to see who is really absent and who isn't.

    14 votes

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  6. MOI printing on reports

    Our district would like for the attendance reports to actually PRINT MOI (method of instruction on the report itself

    14 votes

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  7. Allow Skyward App Parent/Guardian Users to Attach Files through Add Absence Request

    Add the functionality in the Skyward App (Family Access) so users can add attachments when using the "Add Absence Request". This will cut down on parents needing to separately email doctor notes or other required attendance documents or send the document with their student. This will also reduce the amount of work that is needed by attendance clerks or decrease the response time to updating absences.

    14 votes

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  8. It would be very helpful for our secretaries/registrars if the District Category code could be added to the Day Summary report. Thansk!

    It would be very helpful for our secretaries/registrars if the District Category code could be added to the Day Summary report. Thanks!

    14 votes

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  9. Add the ability to send parent notifications for attendance entered for prior dates as well as today

    With remote learning attendance, corrections can be made up to a week later. We need the ability for Family Access notifications to include not just attendance entered today for today, but attendance entered today for a prior date.

    14 votes

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  10. Add Student Grad/Grad Year to Report

    Our Principals rely heavily on the Chronic Attendance Report. It would be very helpful for this report to include student grade level/grad year and/or the ability to sort by grade/grad year. It would also be helpful if a range of percentages could be entered and only those students print. I currently have to print it for each grade level put it in Excel and delete the students with less than 10% absent.

    14 votes

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  11. Giving teachers capability to take previous days attendance for class and not individually

    Our teachers will be taking attendance for a school day the following day. We are doing Asynchronous Remote which gives the student until Midnight to log in.
    When the teacher logs in to take attendance it pulls up the current day and they are having to click on each individual student to record the previous day.
    Is there a way for them to mark the class as a whole for the previous day?

    13 votes

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  12. PERFECT ATTENDANCE

    PERFECT ATTENDANCE: Date AND Period Specific
    Currently, skyward does not have a way to verify TSDS report PDM3-130-007. We need to be able to pull a report that ties to funding only and something that is date specific.

    13 votes

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  13. Delete Attendance Letters

    It would be so much easier to have secretaries delete attendance letters that have already generated if a student turns in the appropriate excuse. It is too risky to give them access to the Utility to Maintain because of the "Delete ALL Attendance Letters" option. We'd like to have the delete button right on the student profile- Attendance- Letters tab.

    13 votes

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  14. Option to Run Scheduled Tasks Only on School Days

    Our attendance office runs various reports and tasks but only on school days. Please consider an option of being able to run scheduled tasks only on days that are scheduled days of school. When these tasks run on weekdays that do not have school they create unnecessary reports and in the case of automatically marking students absent like we do in Positive Attendance she needs to remove those absences so parents don't get phone calls for absences on days we don't have school. Thanks for your consideration of this request.

    13 votes

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  15. Daily Attendance and Eligibility for Athletic Participation

    Are athletes eligible to participate in sports based on attendance? We currently have an Absence Occurrence Report scheduled to run daily against a Processing List. The task goes to head coaches to show students' attendance for that day. There currently is no option for "Today's Date" in this report, so our staff have to update the date on the reports each day--which gets cumbersome. An alternative to selecting "Today's Date" would be to add an option on the Day Summary to run against a Processing or Activity List.

    12 votes

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  16. Tardy Kiosk Configuration Options.

    Add configuration options to allow the absent type/reason to follow the bell schedule. The bell schedule allows you to have a class start time and an absent time.

    i.e. They are marked tardy if absent less than 10 minutes and marked absent if they are more than 10 minutes.

    12 votes

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  17. Using Tardy Kiosk for In/Out Tracking or Students

    Would like to be able to set 2 different codes on 2 different Tardy Kiosk machines to be able to track the in/out of students in a school day. Would then like to be able to run a report to automatically change codes to PIMS reporting codes at day end. Currently with only 1 code allowed we cannot determine who is coming into the building or who is leaving. This information is essential for attendance processing. At this time can only code 1 code on tardy kiosk even though 2 machines are being used. Need the ability to code 2…

    12 votes

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  18. Add 'In Time' to Entry by Date Screen

    We use the Entry by Date screen to monitor our attendance throughout the day. We also use the Tardy Kiosk. We are constantly opening student entries (Edit) to view their In Time. Adding the In Time would really improve efficiency of this browse.

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  19. attendance comment field

    Expand Comments field in Attendance tab to allow for more characters
    One of our schools suggested this field be expanded to allow for 100 characters. Some attendance they can't make because of the limit in characters.

    11 votes

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  20. Perfect Attendance Report - Absence Occurrence Report

    Currently, we can only pull Attendance Occurrence Report for 1 year at a time. I would like to run a Perfect Attendance Report for multiple years.

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