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Student Management Suite

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  1. Add the ability to blank out all census block groups

    Currently census block groups can be imported via skybuild only via an attached student. I recommend adding the ability to blank out all census block groups for addresses. If all students leave a home, then the address record can only be modified by using address master. This feature is not very easy to use for large scale address maintenance. Since we have a change of block groups this year, we end up with 2010 and 2020 CBGs in address master. The 2010 are not associated with students currently, but may be associated as a snapshot address, or future students may…

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  2. email

    Counselors would like to be able to include the students administrator and counselor when they send out emails from the student profile schedule screen. Currently, only the teachers show up. Need to have a counselor and school admin field added to this email name selection view screen?

    4 votes

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  3. Make Student Indicators follow students from entity to entity

    When a student moves from one school to the other, it would be helpful if the indicator followed. For example, RTI Referral. If the student switches schools right after an RIT is submitted, the teacher or administrator is not going to think about emailing the next school this information, especially if it is just a normal transfer from elementary to middle school.

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  4. Allow Student Indicator for Threat Assessment on Offense or BTA in Special Programs

    It would be VERY great to have a Student Indicator available that is based on either the Discipline Offense record SSS Threat Assessment checkbox, or the Special Programs BTA record.
    Yes, there is a work around if you use the District Categories - BUT that requires more steps on already overworked staff and adds MORE chance of human error in data entry that may cascade into other areas.
    Please see attached document with screenshots.

    3 votes

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  5. alternate student name

    Is it possible to have a space for a student's preferred name and run reports using the preferred name? We have several students using different names than their birth name in Skyward and it would be amazing if we can see their preferred name so we are not dead naming them.

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  6. Search by legal name

    It would be great if we could search for a student by either their legal name OR other name and have it show up without having to go into Student Filters.

    Sometimes it is hard to remember which is the legal vs other OR if a student even has a different legal name that we need to be looking up by.

    3 votes

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  7. ELL Score Import Utility - Include transfer of Accommodations and Update list of Accommodations

    ELL Score Import Utility - Include transfer of Accommodations and Update list of Accommodations.

    Please update the current ELL Score Import Utility to copy over previous year Accommodations and Support Delivery Model info. The accommodations are necessary information for Access for ELL setup in the DRC portal for WI State Testing and can be pulled into the DRC portal. Also the list of Accommodations in Skyward are not the same as in the DRC state testing portal. Can these be updated to match ?

    3 votes

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  8. It would be great if you could add the Student report, Student Information on the Quick Print button under Profile.

    It would be great if you could add the Student report, Student Information on the Quick Print button under Profile. Our district prints that info in case of an emergency.

    3 votes

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  9. Add another Advisor under the Entity Info tab/Entity information

    Currently there is Advisor, Counselor, Discipline Officer - can you add a generic box for a name key/name and then the person's position such as Diagnostician, Speech, etc., and add this to be done in a mass add/change as well.

    3 votes

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  10. Scan Mobile ID to Load Current Student Profile

    Program SMS so that a secretary can scan the students Mobile ID and have the corresponding Student Profile pop up on the secretary's Skyward. This would make the attendance office much more efficient when having to see so many kids face-to-face each day.

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  11. Allow Special Characters in names - for example - Zoë - right now we can enter it disappears as soon as you leave the field.

    Allow Special Characters in names - for example - Zoë - right now we can enter the ë but it disappears as soon as you leave the field.

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  12. Method of Instruction- Mass Delete Special Programs

    We currently use 4 different MOIs. We would like to be able to Mass Delete and Mass End a specific MOI. Currently, there is no option to do that- it is set up to mass delete or mass end on a specific date.

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  13. Auto Email Notification when a student is entered as MV so that the liaison can be notified and a email generated notifying them of their ri

    Auto Email Notification when a student is entered as homeless McKinney-Vento so that the liaison can be notified and a email generated notifying them of their rights automatically as required in the law

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  14. Add Gender to the Identity tab

    It would help if gender were on the Identity tab so we could specify the gender per DOE reports.

    3 votes

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  15. Student Locator

    It would be great to see the OTHER ID on the Student Locator. We have to go to another screen to get the other id.

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  16. Student Profile Column Adjustment

    Would love the ability to adjust the size of the Activity Tab column (left to right) in Student Profile. Would also be nice if the columns that get adjusted would remain the size you chose until they were altered again.

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  17. Select Family Member/Emerg Contact shows Family names and Emergency Contact names in alphabetic order. Unfortunately the nurse does not know

    Select Family Member/Emerg Contact shows Family names and Emergency Contact names in alphabetic order. Unfortunately the nurse does not know which is which. Is there anyway to add a relationship column to this screen. This would help the correct person be contacted in a appropriate amount of time.

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  18. Please make "other name" exportable in the export file builder for use in outside applications like Smartpass

    We integrate with other apps via Clever and other tools and would like the option for "other name" to be an exportable field.

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  19. Links to use for importer to portfolio

    Please add the state ede number to the link to use for the portfolio importer. With all the different test report we send to parent if any available link to a student was offered we could import the files. Right now the ACCESS score reports only list the MARSS number (state number) so we cannot link them.

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  20. Include Bus Route Information on Student Roster and Student Information Report

    It would be helpful to include Bus Route Information on Student Roster and Student Information Report.

    Districts send these reports home at the beginning of the year.

    It would be nice to include this information for parents.

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