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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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Student Management Suite

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  1. other name option in food service pos

    Have "Other Name" as a screen field option in Food Service POS. It is available for teacher gradebooks but not for the cafeteria.

    3 votes

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  2. Power Up Video - Arena Scheduling

    I would like to see a 60 Second Parent Power Up Video to showcase how to use Arena Scheduling.

    2 votes

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  3. General Collection Data Extract

    When extracting for my General Collection, I'd like more filters to extract groups separately. For example, I'd like to be able to extract only the Special Education kiddos. Currently, I'm using a Processing List to do this, but it would be nice to have a few features built in.

    3 votes

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  4. Registrar Configuration

    We have discovered that staff can change the status of an approved application to WIP IF the student is Inactive. Our district does now want this to be an option. We would like to request an additional check box option to not allow staff to change the status of an approved application.

    Students
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    3 votes

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  5. Would like to see "Doctor's note required for each absence" on the entry by date screen

    Add "Doctor's note required for each absence" to the entry by date screen. That way we can see if a doctors note is required or not.

    5 votes

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  6. SkyBuild import

    We would like to mass import Student PIN and Previous SSN field which is on TN/NCLB tab through Skybuild import.

    3 votes

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  7. Allow Entity Counts to separate Service Enrollments

    We have students that are enrolled with us as a Service Enrollment with another district as their Primary Enrollment. We would like to be able to see them separated in Entity Counts.

    2 votes

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  8. Add Foster Care to Export File Builder

    Inside the SkyBuild under Special Programs there is no ability to pull the data inside the Foster Care Fields on a student's profile. We need to send this data out for some software/applications and it is not there. It has other programs like Homeless and LEP but Foster Care is missing. This would be super beneficial to be able export our student data in the SkyBuild.

    3 votes

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  9. Automated Email

    In the automated emails, have an NSOE Application that will look at the Stage Code and based on that code send an email to parents. Like applications that are missing required documentation. Right now we email parents individually, it would be so helpful if this was set up automatically.

    2 votes

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  10. "teacher transaction"

    Need an option to prompt for an effective date when adding/editing a primary or alternate teacher on a meet. Similar to the options available for student transactions. I see that there PA and TX asked for something similar, where they asked for an option on the add transaction date on the add of a meet.

    7 votes

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  11. Translator Needed For Conferences

    It would be helpful if parents could indicate that they need a translator when signing up for parent-teacher conferences in the parent portal.

    6 votes

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  12. PIMS student template: Special Ed Status N if IEP out of compliance

    The checkbox that allows expired IEP students to load to the special ed snapshot does not help the Student Template. If this functionality existed for the student template for students that do not have an active iep and cross-checked with an exit, it would eliminate a large amount of time deleting tons of students, especially when districts conduct ieps in the same month district-wide.

    14 votes

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  13. Endorsement Progress with In Progress

    Allow for endorsement progress to calculate in progress and next year coursework, so the report feature will tell if a student is on track to receive an endorsement. Another option is to allow the career plan to print the "requirements of declared endorsement" met field.

    1 vote

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  14. email to parents when report cards are posted to the portfolio

    is it possible to have Skyward auto email a parent when the Progress Reports and Report Cards are posted to the portfolio in Family Access from the Office Side and not use the message center?

    7 votes

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  15. Course/Class Counts report not accurate

    Currently the Course/Class Counts report is not accurate since it shows total of all student by all teachers, so if there is a primary and an alternate on the course record, a class of 22 students becomes 44. We need a way to filter to ONLY the primary teacher please.

    27 votes

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  16. Mass delete old proc list utility

    A utility to mass delete processing lists would be helpful.
    Or even if a user is made inactive - and option to delete their user proc lists would be great.

    4 votes

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  17. IEP type as an available Skyward field

    We would like to pull the IEP type into Custom Forms but that is not a current skyward field.

    2 votes

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  18. Custom Forms Browse Student Name Key

    We use the custom forms browse screen when creating processing lists of which guardians have/have not signed paperwork. As it is right now when you create a processing list it is an all or nothing list if sorting by signature because the field range is so broad. There is not a way to download a csv, eliminate the signed/unsigned field and upload to processing lists as Name Key / Other ID / State ID are not fields available on this browse. We would suggest adding one of these.

    1 vote

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  19. Auto Scheduler

    There needs to be an option to roll-back an Auto Scheduling run to the previous save point. The Schedule Master Save Points only affect the Course Master. There needs to also be an option to revert to a previous point for the actual student scheduling runs.

    We have already built schedules for 85-90% of our students (via Arena Scheduling), and the final scheduling run overfilled course sections, even though we had to box checked to "Close Sections When Filled". The only option we have is to roll ALL THE WAY BACK to requests, which is not an option after the…

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  20. Need to be able to add SSSTP field on Attendance Letter Discipline Offense

    State of Texas requriement. The SSStP field is not available on the Discipline Offense set up in the Attendance Letter area, which causes errors in PEIMS reporting.

    1 vote

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