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Student Management Suite

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  1. Add ability to mass import/change the IBC Reimbursement flag (TX)

    When the current or prior LEA submits for one of the two allowed IBC Reimbursements, TREx element TE132 (IBC-REIMBURSEMENT-INDICATOR) must be set prior to sending a TREx record.

    IBC are beginning to become a huge push due to their CCMR (accountability) point earning potential, and as a result most districts have gone from a handful of students taking these exams to hundreds, if not thousands that are taking and earning these certifications. This results in weeks of work hand-coding all of these IBC-REIMBURSEMENT flags, as there is no mechanism to mass-add or mass-change the indicator.

    Please add an option to…

    4 votes

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  2. Attendance Percentage in Family Access

    Our district leadership would love the ability to view attendance percentage in Family Access. This would be extremely helpful to staff and families when trying to track attendance, truancy, etc.

    4 votes

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  3. Notifying districts when Skyward is down.

    Our district's skyward has been down sense around 11:00 AM this morning. We had to call around 11:30 AM to see what the issue was. Its now 3:41 PM and no updates or notifications have been sent out with the outage.

    4 votes

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  4. 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

    5 votes

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  5. Training for Scheduling

    PowerSchool offers training for scheduling. Could Skyward offer the same? This would be extremely helpful.

    4 votes

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  6. Allow for Building a Custom Schedule

    We have the option to build Custom forms, Custom report cards, and Custom transcripts. It would be great if we had the same option for schedules. Right now we just have the hard coded schedule report, it would be great if we had the ability to change the layout/content/etc of the schedule just like we can in report cards and transcripts.

    3 votes

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  7. More options for printing career plans

    There are currently very few options for printing career plans. The student career plan report prints the description and not the curriculum key. We have made several changes for how we display our sped courses and have needed to update career plans for multiple students, however I only know who they are based on the curriculum - it's not one grade level/campus/endorsement/etc. Some extremely helpful options include:

    1. The ability to run a report either by range or individual to look for students with a specific range of curriculums or specific individual curriculums on their career plan anywhere within a specified…
    3 votes

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  8. 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

    5 votes

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  10. Regarding when a studen

    When a student switches sections, if the school is on an A/B schedule/rotation: Please change the parameters of the assignments so that the system does not use the date as one of the criteria for an assignment to match from one section to another. Thank you.

    3 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)...

    4 votes

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  12. Attendance Type Codes

    This year, State of Indiana DOE implemented 6 new attendance type codes to collect additional data regarding the reason for excused absences. The new codes have two characters, but when adding new codes in Skyward, that field is limited to one character. I know we can use whatever code we want and crosswalk to the state codes, but it would be much easier for staff to interpret attendance reports if we could use the same two character codes as IDOE vs arbitrarily chosen single character codes.

    3 votes

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  13. 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…

    3 votes

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  14. update parent phone number only

    Security update to this menu path WS\ST\TB\FA\FA

    The update would allow the edit of a guardian(s) phone number view only access for the address
    We only want select staff to change addresses but if we take away this security it takes away the ability to edit guardian(s) phone numbers too.

    2 votes

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  15. Allow more info into the Information Report

    Adding Health Conditions and Alert Information to this report would be very helpful and vital in an emergency. This report is what is printed if DCF, LEO, or any other emergency services need specific information on students. This information report is the most useful spot our district has found to add this information and access it quickly in an emergency.

    1 vote

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  16. Designated report for Family custom forms

    As there is a designated report for Student custom forms, there needs to be one for Family custom forms.

    Right now, there is only the ability to pull data for family custom forms via Data Mining.

    Having a report that will allow schools to print all completed forms or more easily pull the data from those submitted forms.

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  17. Grading Report that pulls students current percentage, and letter grade before a term posts.

    To better support our students, I’d like to request a report that pulls current, unposted grades (both percentages and letter grades). Having a simplified view of this live data enables administration to identify students in danger of failing and coordinate timely academic outreach before the grading window closes.

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  18. 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.

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  19. Course/Section Masters > Section Details > Teacher History - Reporting Option Needed

    Course/Section Masters > Section Details > Teacher History - a way to print these details in a report or provide these fields in SkyBuild which would include the change history transaction details as well. Screenshot included to show location and fields in that screen.

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  20. Attendance count/ minutes in and out on Report Cards

    When using the minutes in and minutes out in attendance and you have 2 periods....it is counting a full 1/2 day when you enter and excused on in Period 1 regardless of how long they were gone. It should pull onto the report card the same way it pulls to the state. This should be an easy fix.

    3 votes

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