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Student Management Suite

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  1. Wellness Screening Question Customizations & Additions

    We need the ability to have more than 2 questions for customizing the Wellness Screening and the ability to put in a return date that can be seen in EA+ as well. I am attaching an example of our Elementary Sick Student Call In Log (zoom in to view full form). We want to customize Skyward to look similar to this. We also need to have a View for Office staff and the nurse to see who is out and for how long and what their return date is. Also, reporting in Data Mining on this would be super! Thanks!

    12 votes

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  2. Build table of CIDORs

    Currently the field for Campus ID of Residence is a free form text field. It would be beneficial to have a table created so that valid codes could be chosen from a drop down list.

    Negative impact would be entry of CIDOR that is out of designated boundaries higher possibility of data entry errors and more time consuming data entry on every entry.
    Having the valid codes provided will allow for less data entry fewer errors and cleaner data.

    12 votes

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  3. Automated e-mail for addition or change of indicator

    It would be helpful to set up an automated e-mail that would be triggered when a student indicator is added or changed. For example, when a Parental Consent indicator is added or edited an e-mail would go to the teachers of the student and the administrators.

    11 votes

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  4. Be able to view scheduled conferences under student profile

    It would be great if a conference tab was added under student profile so that schools could see the scheduled conference without having to run a report or going to the staff table. Being able to schedule there would be helpful also.

    11 votes

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  5. Make Emergency Contacts Phone Number Required Step in On Line Reqistration

    During On Line Registration, require that at least one phone number be entered for any Emergency Contact that is added.

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  6. More Automated Email Options

    Homeroom and Advisor changes should be on the scheduling or demographic changes for the student. Including it on the Enrollment changes isn't helpful at all because they aren't yet assigned to a homeroom when they are enrolled. So when a new student arrives, we have to go into Skyward to find their homeroom teacher or advisor.

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  7. Student Graduation Date Mass Create/Change Utility - Use Processing List

    We have different groups of students that will graduate on different dates. It would be helpful if we could run this utility using a processing list.

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  8. Deleting data from custom forms.

    We need a utility that deletes data from all Custom Forms for every new school year instead of cloning the custom forms. Cloning a custom form can break any process that feeds from these forms.

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  9. Vehicle information available for updates in Custom Forms or Online Registration

    We use online registration and when we sell a parking permit we need to have the student car information in the vehicle section under General in the Student Profile area. I would love to see the vehicle type, color and LP added to either the custom forms area or to the online registration area for updating directly by parents. At this time, we created a custom form but must export and import to have it viewable by our security using the mobile app when they are in the parking lot. If it is not in they must contact the office…

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  10. Add the Student State ID to the student browse

    Can the Student State ID be added to the student browse?

    10 votes

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  11. Add Internal ID to a student search or student browse area

    The Internal ID is automatically shared to School Messenger, OneRoster and other vendors that we auto roster to. It would be very helpful, especially when troubleshooting issues, to have a way to look up a student by the Internal ID. This could be accomplished by adding it to the list of options on the Student Lookup search page or by adding it as a column on one of the student browse views.

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  12. The length of the student middle name field needs to be bigger

    We have students with two or more middle names and/or two or more last names. The DOE wants their middle name reported as it appears on the birth certificate (last name, and first name as well) I have a student now who will always fail my STN report because his middle name won't fit. Can we add a character or two to the length of that field?

    10 votes

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  13. System Wide Users need access to view protected notes.

    System-Wide Users need access to view protected notes.

    10 votes

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  14. Verify all email address fields

    For ALL emails fields, student details, Parent Details, Emergency Contacts, Staff and TEACHERS:
    Verify the validity of email address fields. As a Minimum:
    Don't allow commas
    Don't allow spaces
    Don't allow special characters like !,$,%
    Require a @ somewhere in the middle with text before and afterwards

    We have a lot of our extracts with vendors crash every year because of bad data entered into any of the email address fields.

    10 votes

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  15. Add ACC INSTR in Special Programs to the Mass Add/End Utilities

    Please add the ACC INSTR (for accelerated instruction) option in Special Programs to the Mass Add and End Utilities for Special Programs. I've looked and ACC INSTR is not an option in either location in the Mass Add or End utilities. Thank you.

    9 votes

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  16. Email Notification for Student Name Change

    When students have been adopted and last name or other names change, send out an email notice so that those who work with the student are aware of the change. If there could also be a way to type in the 'old' name and be redirected to the 'new' name, that would be very helpful as well.

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  17. Replace Gender with Gender Identity in the header area within Student Management

    In Student Management there is the ability for users to pick fields (customize) they want displayed on the header area. Please either add Gender Identity as an option or replace (preferred option) the current Gender field option with the Gender Identity field.

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  18. Transcripts posted to portfolio

    It would be nice if transcripts could be posted to the portfolio tab the same way report cards do.

    9 votes

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  19. Current Scheduling Start Date

    If a student RE-enrolls the same school year, we would like the START DATE on the student's currently scheduling profile to change to the new re-enrolled date. Example: Student entry 9/8, withdraws 10/2, RE-enrolls 11/5. The START DATE still shows 9/8. We want it to say 11/5.

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  20. A Parent/Guardian communication log for each individual student

    With school being permanently closed for the rest of the year, it would really be helpful to have a centralized communication log. Our district is working together to ensure everyone has the most updated information which requires school administrators, office staff, counselors, Deans IT support staff, Special Education staff and coaches in addition to teachers who are in constant communication with parents/guardians to somehow document the date, time, subject of the communication, who they spoke with and more detailed notes field if needed. This needs to be attached to each individual student not as a family note. If the setup…

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