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Student Management Suite

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  1. Parent approval for student requested courses via Family Access

    When a student enters their course requests, to have it go to the parent in family access for approval, before it goes to the school. Instead of having to print the course request sheet and send home for signature, allow the parents to sign in and approve the course requests via Family Access.

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  2. Alert Information Box

    In order for families to see this box during on line registration, the display in family access box needs to be checked. PLEASE create a utility to update this box for every parent.

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  3. FAMILY ACCESS ATTENDANCE

    *The suggestion was to only show and give the school day time options vs. the full 24 hour period since so many of our parents don't notice the a.m. / p.m. times especially 12:00 a.m. & 12 p.m. There are numerous errors due to this.
    *Also the "All Day" box, is there a way to highlight, make it larger or change the default for the "All Day" box. It is kind of shadowed out and I don't believe most parents even notice it.

    Please let me know if these issues can be resolved.

    Thanks,

    1 vote

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  4. Arena Scheduling Required Forms

    I would like the option to require parents to complete/submit a custom form (liability waiver for summer school) before they can click the "Submit Schedule" link in Arena Scheduling. This will eliminate the need to chase down parents after they submit their schedule to collect the signed waivers
    before the start of summer school.

    6 votes

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  5. Improving Access to Custom Forms in the Skyward Mobile App

    Many parents have expressed interest in being able to access custom forms directly through the Skyward mobile app. The technology department gets numerous calls and support requests from parents stating they are unable to locate the custom forms. If integrating custom forms into the app is not feasible, an alternative solution could be to add a "Custom Forms" button or link within the app. This "Button" would redirect parents to access those forms through their web browser. This would provide parents a more convenient way to access any necessary custom forms, even if they cannot be directly integrated into the…

    6 votes

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  6. Hiding final grades in Family Access for standards gradebook

    It would be great if we could hide the final grade in family access for standards gradebook. New DOE rules, we have to send a final grade across for ALL courses. We are adding the P/F to report, but we do not include that on report cards. However we can't block it from family access. It makes no sense to parents because there is no pass or fail for elementary grades.

    2 votes

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  7. Mock Attachments & Manage Required Documents from NSOE to Family Access

    Currently, NSOE allows for viewing and checking off documentation uploaded through the portal. Family Access should reflect this same option, providing a link to view attachments from Online Registration and Online Forms, and provide a Manage Required Documents button to mock the same options setup for NSOE. This is imperative for districts tracking Proof of Residency, unless they want to use post-it notes or a spreadsheet outside of Skyward.

    4 votes

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  8. Need the ability to block view in student/family access of academic history for certain students

    Need the ability to block view in student/family access of academic history for certain students just like you can for block them from seeing their schedule and current grades

    2 votes

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  9. Hide EOC Score in Family and Student Access

    We are a block district and import EOC scores into Skyward in January. I am having to keep the gradebook disabled to parents and students until Semester 1 grades are ready. Teachers have to review these EOC scores before completing the students final grades, which takes a bit. If there was an option to hide the EOC score until we are ready to release grades, that would enable us to leave open the gradebooks for families so they can see the new term assignments.

    1 vote

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  10. Translator Needed For Conferences

    It would be helpful if parents could indicate that they need a translator when signing up for parent-teacher conferences in the parent portal.

    4 votes

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  11. Mass assign obligations

    Could there be a way to mass assign obligations to all students? For example, in order for them to see their new schedule, they first need to turn in Tech Forms for their computers and the parent needs to complete Family Access Updates.
    Also, parents should be able to see obligations in Family Access, so they are aware of what the student needs to complete.

    2 votes

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  12. Absence Request FA Screen

    Our district uses the absence requests to request early dismissals. A Skycoder prompt based upon attendance code (such as early dismissal) would be beneficial to remind parents not to submit an early dismissal through the portal after 9:00 a.m. for the same day. Likewise, a prompt attached to the medically absent code telling parents to attach a doctors note would be beneficial as well, when the ability to add attachments is added. :)

    3 votes

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  13. make the all day check mark in family access absent request unchecked by default?

    The ability to make the all day check mark in family access absent request unchecked by default?

    3 votes

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  14. Email Notification when family cancels absences request in family access

    I have notifications enabled to notify our secretary when a family member creates an absence request via Skyward Family Access. This is working great. However, if that family member goes in an cancels the previously entered request that has not been approved yet is there a way our secretary can get an email notifiation of that? Also, would be nice for the parent to get an email of that cancellation as well.

    5 votes

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  15. We have an automated email set up to be generated when an absence request is submitted through FA. The message recipients for general staff

    We have an automated email set up to be generated when an absence request is submitted through FA. The message recipients for general staff is the main office AA's and the health room staff. They would like the notification to also generate an email to the student's homeroom teacher.

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  16. Academic History - School picks the years shown

    I would like the ability for Academic History to be ONLY history of past years OR allow the option to use a processing list to turn off history for those we are blocking.

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  17. Conferences - Adding a message to the Conference tab of Family Access

    Conferences - Adding a message to the Conference tab of Family Access
    I can ONLY have a message when the conference is closed. I would like to add a message at all times to the conference tab.

    4 votes

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  18. Texas- Add grade level to the pre-defined fields for the Family Access Absence Notifcation Request

    Texas - Add grade level to the pre-defined fields for the Family Access Absence Notification Request. Adding the entity that the student attends would be very helpful. This would allow the attendance clerks to quickly identify their students should there be more than one attendance clerk on a campus.

    2 votes

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  19. Course requests configuration - add message

    I would like to be able to add a text message on the course Selection Screen in Family Access.

    3 votes

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  20. Family Access Food Service and Fee Management Paid By (parent name)

    Please add the parent name to the paid by, it just says 'Via Web'. We have split families and both parents have equal rights for the children, they want to see that they paid for food service or the fees. Even on the receipt it doesn't show who paid for it.

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