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Student Management Suite

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  1. 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.

    7 votes

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  2. Option to include future transactions in graduation requirement progress

    Our district uses future transactions to drop or add a course at term or semester break because the ability to edit the terms on courses creates many other issues with our third party exports, state reporting for membership, attendance, etc. However, when future transactions are used, a course that will be added or dropped is not included in a student's graduation requirements. This makes it difficult to determine which students are actually deficient in credit for graduation. It would be great to have the option to include course credit in the graduation requirements when the course will be added or…

    7 votes

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  3. Import 504 Data

    Add the ability to import 504 Data in Skybuild from a 3rd party vendor. This is a state-reportable field.

    6 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Skybuild  ·  Admin →
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  4. Change History in the gradebook.

    Teachers often change due dates for assignments. There is no history to show this. It would be nice to see when any change is made in gradebook.

    5 votes

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  5. OneRoster

    In the OneRoster Export, please include TX State Course Service ID in the course.csv

    5 votes

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  6. Please add additional staff types in the Designations field in the Staff Information area. The Teacher checkbox controls a ton of functions

    Please add additional staff types in the Designations field in the Staff Information area. The Teacher checkbox controls a ton of functions and access in Student Management, so I would ultimately like to make this a required field using Skycoder. However, I cannot make this a required field unless we have at least an 'Other' option for staff members.

    The current checkboxes are Discipline Officer, Teacher, Substitute, Counselor, and Career Center Counselor or Administrator.

    Here are some suggestions for additions to this field: Secretary (or Admin Assistant), ParaPro, Coordinator, Principal / Dean, Support Staff, and Other.

    The Career Center Counselor…

    6 votes

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  7. Special Education Accommodations in Gradebook.

    Could a clickable accommodations menu be created in grade book assignments? This would be helpful documentation for special education and 504 students. The list of accommodations might include oral administration, calculator, small group, extra time, copy of notes, etc.

    4 votes

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  8. Day Summary Report

    Allow for the selection of activities in the day summary report. It would be great to schedule this report for our sports teams without having to create a processing list.

    3 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Attendance  ·  Admin →
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  9. 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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  10. Data Mining - File Name match Data Mining Report name

    It would be helpful and less confusing for our users if, the name of the Excel file we download would be the same as the Data Mining report name rather than something like SKR1857952J3N3827. When users look in their Downloads folder, they have to open each file to see what the data is.

    It also makes it difficult to remember which Data Mining report was actually used to generate the file.

    34 votes

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  11. Entity button for program records

    With all the program records needed for Ed-Fi and now many needing to be entity-specific, it would be nice to either allow us to select the entity when we add the record from 000 (or any entity) or even better give us an entity button like on the entry/withdrawal tab so we can add the record correctly. Flipping between several entities for one student is cumbersome and confusing.

    3 votes

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  12. CARRY OVER COURSE MASTER CHANGES TO NY COURSE MASTER

    We create NY courses in December, then if we make DOE/DEX necessary changes to CY, we need a button to also add to NY course master OR the ability to only clone courses to NY by individual course!

    9 votes

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  13. Service call emails

    It would be helpful if service call emails contained the conversation. Currently, if there have been a few responses it can be difficult to remember the context for the last answer given by support.

    6 votes

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  14. Ed-Fi Setting for Future Entry/Withdraw dates

    Could we have an Ed-Fi config setting that allows us to set how many days in the future Ed-Fi will sync records?
    For example, before the school year starts, winter break, spring break etc. we have families tell us they will withdraw or enroll in the future. Currently, if we future withdraw or enroll, we get more conflicts and errors on reports.
    I would like to only send future E/W records if the date is 3 days in the future, otherwise the record should not be sent. Other districts may want to set it to 5 or more days.

    21 votes

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  15. 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.

    2 votes

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  16. Make Primary Phone Number assignable per guardian, not household

    Currently, if Guardian2 signs into Skyward Family Access and changes the primary phone number to be G2's cell phone, not only does the HOUSEHOLD primary phone number change, Guardian1's Primary phone number is not only replaced, it's been fully lost.

    Primary Phone Number should be assignable for each guardian. It's not 1989 anymore. Cellphones exist. The default phone number for any given student should be Family1/Guardian1, not a household number.

    You give the ability to export F1/G1 Primary Phone alongside F1/G2 Primary Phone. It's always going to be the same phone number and it causes issues for me constantly with…

    24 votes

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  17. Display all parent phone numbers on the Profile info page

    Currently the student profile info page only displays the primary 1st guardian phone number. You need to click on the parent/guardian name to view their second phone number. It would be helpful if the profile info page would show all the phone numbers for the parent/guardians.

    1 vote

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  18. Space to add more than 5 locker combs

    Space to add more locker combs. We have locks for lockers that have 7-8 combs. Currently Skyward only allows 5 combs to be entered so we have to skip the combs that we can not enter into the system.

    1 vote

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  19. MFA via Email or Text

    Just putting in a request to have MFA over email or text built into the system.

    Email especially would help us get MFA set up for staff members who prefer to not use their personal cell phone for work. Not many of our staff members use an app for MFA already so this would help us meet those staff members where they are.

    Thanks!

    5 votes

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  20. (Texas) Add Course Service ID to Endorsement Progress Screen

    With the addition of needing to have the programs of study, endorsements, and IBCs align with the correct PEIMS codes, it would be very helpful to have the PEIMS codes for courses on the Endorsement progress page of skyward. With it just having the local course code, it requires that we go back into the transcript if there is a course that we are unsure of the PEIS code to make sure the alignment is correct. It would same an immense amount of time to have all the pertinent information on one page.

    1 vote

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