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Student Management Suite

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  1. Ed Fi level one errors RESPONSE MESSAGE on the MAIN LINE please

    When viewing errors (Data sent history record sets) ... It would be soooooo helpful if we could get the “Response Message” data on the mainline with the Response code and the Record Key. We typically need the last portion of the Response Message when we are trying to fix Level 1 errors. Having to open up / triangle down to get to this info is time consuming. If it were on the mainline we could dump to Excel and much more quickly sort and share with other staff that we divide and conquer the work to heal this sick data.…

    28 votes

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  2. Current scheduling change history

    Change history button for when courses change from current to historical to track user making the change if there is discrepancy's

    4 votes

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  3. 4 votes

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  4. Add a grade range option when setting up a Family Access Bill Code

    Our high schools are grades 10-12. After pre-transfers are turned on, 9th graders can add and pay for high school fees that are in the Family Access Bill Code Setup. This happens mostly with yearbooks, and we've added the high school name to the description, but many 9th grade guardians continue to add and pay for a high school yearbook, mistakenly thinking they are purchasing a middle school yearbook. It would be helpful to add a grade range on the setup so that we can exclude it from showing as a fee for 9th graders.

    6 votes

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  5. Add a discipline report option under my activites for the students. Also add an option to add activity as part of the filters in discipline

    Add a discipline report option under my activities for the students. Also add an option to the discipline reports section to filter by activity.

    3 votes

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  6. Tie notes to the STUDENT and not the person who created it

    When creating a note on a student of any kind, can the note be tied to the STUDENT and not the person that created it? We have staff that created notes and when they left, for some reason, their notes did not transfer. It would be nice if the note were attached to the student so that if the staff that created the not leaves the notes stay in place.

    6 votes

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  7. 3 votes

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  8. Discipline Officer: Only Show Active Staff as an option when entering incidents

    Please add the option to only show ACTIVE staff when you choose a Discipline Officer in the Discipline entry screen.
    Currently it shows both Active and Inactive.

    The only option Skyward gives us it to select the configuration option "Only allow Staff marked as Discipline Officer to be assigned to an Offense/Action" but that means you have to manually check this box individually for each staff under the Designations....Designations: Disc Officer: Yes Teacher: Yes Substitute: No Counselor: No

    2 votes

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  9. Include guardian e-mails on the Verification screen for online registration

    Include guardian e-mails on the Verification screen for online registration

    4 votes

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  10. Send course credits to state, but not counted in Skyward (Bettering GPA use case)

    It would be nice to have a way to send course credits to the state, but not have them counted twice in skyward. The use case is for students trying to better their GPA for a course. They take the course again and this needs reported to the state, but you do not want the credits doubled up in Skyward. So when you enter a "Variable Credit" on a historical course for 0.0 credits, you get errors from the IDOE saying you are required to send them credits. Maybe a flag or something could tell skyward not to internally count…

    5 votes

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  11. Transporation/Busing module in registration process

    During registration we have a Google Form for parents to request student pick-up/drop-off. The parents enter their addresses in the form but those addresses get misspelled or different abbreviations for ST, Str, Street. It would be nice to have a transporation module in the online registration portal where parents can select their address from the Address Master and then the correct bus would be displayed (with bus driver info)...

    2 votes

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  12. "All Students" preview screen

    When making changes for families and selecting "All Students," having an option to have a pop-up show the changes that will take place, along with a confirmation asking if you'd like to proceed. This could help cause fewer issues with changes being made and affecting other families/blended families.

    2 votes

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  13. Remove 0.00 when importing a blank percentile score into Test Scores

    When importing test scores that have a blank percentile value, 0.00 becomes the value in the field instead of just remaining blank. This doesn't look very clear, as all other fields are blank except the percentile field. Would love to see a blank remain a blank in Skyward. See example.

    2 votes

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  14. Can we have more color options for student indicators? As well as more than one character for the indicator?

    Can we have more color options for student indicators? As well as more than one character for the indicator?

    6 votes

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  15. Request from teacher: Change the symbol in the gradebook for 'no count' assignments so that it is different from 'missing' assignments. They

    change the symbol in the gradebook for 'no count' assignments so that it is different from 'missing' assignments. They currently both have a star. It would assist with us needing to go back in to update missing assignments. Seeing a different symbol for 'no count' we would know that we did not have any scores for that assignment that needed to be updated. Thank you for the consideration.

    2 votes

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  16. Skybuild/CTE Family Import

    Because CTE is growing by leaps and bounds, ISD's and RESD's have a need to import and overwrite much more student demographics information. In particular Family and Emergency Contact information.

    Currently, Family information imports that we use between district databases and our CTE database can only be imported once. After that, the settings to overwrite family information is not available in Skybuild Imports. This prevents us from providing critical Student and Family information updates between systems.

    For that matter limiting the districts ability to overwrite data using an import is a bit of an over reach.

    It is critical that…

    7 votes

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  17. Advanced Math Indicator not tied to Course Code

    It was stated in a recent Q& A that the Advanced Math Indicator for Summer 2026 PEIMS submission would be tied to students who are enrolled in courses using the new Advanced Math Course Codes. The state does not require us to use those course codes however for students who need the Advanced Math Indicator. We are allowed to use locally created courses for those students. We will need another way to indicate students who need the Advanced Math Indicator other than only students in courses with the identified course codes.

    1 vote

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  18. Create an AI Chat Bot

    Create a LLM Chat Bot by uploading all of your SkyDoc pdfs so users can use AI to ask questions and troubleshoot on their own.

    4 votes

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  19. AI Chatbot for Skyward Instructions (not student data related)

    Complex systems like SMS benefit from dedicated AI Chatbots. Searching directions using keywords results in dozens of sets of long and often redundant directions and the keywords used in the search do not always pull the correct set of directions. AI chatbots can help find answers and provide links to further information very efficiently. It can customize responses as it learns the user's role in the district and how SMS is set up for them (e.g. a teacher using secondary or standards based grading). It could give suggestions of features the user didn't know to ask about and give feedback…

    1 vote

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  20. Flexibility in listing absences in attendance letters

    When creating custom attendance letters, tables listing student absences must currently match the absence codes used in the threshold to generate those letters. I request the flexibility to trigger letters based on specific absence types (e.g., unexcused only) while displaying all absence types (both excused and unexcused) in the letter itself.

    1 vote

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