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  1. Graduation Req Base Year column added to the Parent Entered Requests View

    A column with the students' cohort year in the Parent Entered Requests view would be helpful when schools need to sort through the list. Especially, for large schools with a separate campus, for example, that only house 9th graders. The attendance secretary can sort by grad req base year to easily process the requests for 9th graders only.

    6 votes

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  2. Mass update early Middle College incoming freshman

    Early Middle College incoming freshman coming to an EMC high School to update the incoming class instead of updating individually each freshman as early middle college. Currently each student has to be entered.

    3 votes

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  3. Utility to Mass update Developmental KG on Entry Withdrawal Screen

    Several buildings have Y5 classes and a utility is needed to change the Developmental KG flag from Yes to No when students move from Y5 into Kindergarten. Currently this has to be done student by Student.

    3 votes

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  4. 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.

    6 votes

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  5. Add secondary guardian contact number to display in Student Profile

    We would like to include both guardians' phone numbers in the student profile, as shown in the attached screenshot. This addition is essential for emergency situations, as individuals are currently unable to find the second guardian's phone number in the information panel. In an emergency, it is crucial that this information is easily accessible.

    2 votes

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  6. 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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  7. SMS 2.0 Base ADM Report by student in Excel Format

    Base ADM Report by Student – exportable to Excel. At TDASC we were offered ideas on how to reconcile ADM to SOWRD on individual student basis. It seems that the other State SIS vendors already offer this report in Excel. The report should include the individual student [EdFi ID] and the individual student ADM per each reporting period. This Excel Export would be extremely beneficial to reconcile ADM to the State System. The exact same report is available now in SOWRD. I have attached the SOWRD headers.

    2 votes

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  8. 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.

    5 votes

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  9. Ability to run Voc Ed hours and Daily Register for a single student

    It would be super helpful to have the ability to run Voc Ed Hrs utility and Daily Register by student(s) so that, when making corrections to a student or just a few students, you would not have to run for the entire grade level or campus to update the student details to Ed-Fi - especially with the new ATND submissions every six weeks.

    2 votes

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  10. Student Profile, Guidance Tab, add Visit Reason to Column Displays

    Student Profile, Guidance Tab, add Visit Reason to Column Displays
    Administration is requesting Visit Reason to be added (less clicks and ease of viewing an important field)

    2 votes

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  11. Mass Update At Risk Field

    Currently we can only mass add one record to our At Risk field. The state of KS has up to 12 options to check that qualifies a student for At Risk. Once we mass add a category ie ESOL if we get a list of another indicator later ie Migrant we can do a mass add, but it will only pull in those that aren't already marked. We then have to go in to each student and mark them individually. In our district we have several thousand ESOL, several thousand students who are marked under the Dyslexia screener and almost…

    1 vote

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  12. OFSDP Flex Teacher Attendance

    Give teachers the ability to enter timestamps for students' Arrival and Departure/Dismissal times. Then, in the behind-the-scenes, add the minutes for each student in the Flex.

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  13. Add student / state / alphakey ids to the monthly/quarterly report

    There are currently no student ids for the monthly/quarterly report. Any id would be a wonderful addition to be able to compare against state files for chronic attendance. Thank you!

    1 vote

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  14. 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.

    4 votes

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  15. 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.

    2 votes

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  16. 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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  17. NSOE application routing for cross-over grade level entities

    Allow for grade level options to be added to the path type when creating address paths.

    Currently, if two campuses have the same grade level options in the address path, the NSOE application gets kicked to the ISD instead of routing based on the Elementary path type.

    Example: We have an elementary that serves EE-3 and one that serves EE-5. The EE-3 elementary applications do not route to them if the middle school address path is for the EE-5 campus because the system cannot differentiate between the grade levels on the path type.

    1 vote

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  18. Training for Scheduling

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

    4 votes

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  19. 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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  20. Update Grad Req (FL) Replacing Online Learning with Test Requirements Met/Not Met

    Request to remove Online Learning (met/not met) which is no longer a FL requirement. Replace on Grad Reqs with Testing Requirements (met/not met). Met if both Comm & Math are met, Not Met if one or both are not met.

    1 vote

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