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Student Management Suite

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  1. Ability for parents to attachment documents such as Doctors Notes to Absence Request, or updated shot records to Health Info

    It would be nice for the parents to have the ability to attach/upload documents into the Family Access center. The documents would then be attached to the student and stored in Skyward instead of microfiche.

    16 votes

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  2. District option for student indicators

    We have many student indicators that are district wide. It would be helpful if you could add the indicator from 000 and it would be a district indicator and if you added the indicator from an entity it would be entity specific.

    17 votes

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  3. Scheduling - Print Teacher Schedules

    When printing out Teacher Schedules (WS/OF/CS/RE/TS), it would be nice to have the option to choose specific teachers, but more than one teacher at a time. We have multiple teachers who teach in different departments, so just choosing a department or a subject, doesn't get us what we need. We would like to have the option to checkbox more than one teacher at a time.

    9 votes

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  4. Add the graduated Y/N and Grad Date from profile as an object on student transcripts.

    Currently when we print a transcript for a senior that is credit deficient or a dropout, the graduation date is populated from the projected grad date object. This is then very misleading on these transcripts as the student has not graduated. It seems to make more sense to pull the grad date from the profile tab, that way students that are credit deficient or drop outs, would not populate a graduation date. Thank you for considering.

    2 votes

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  5. Update Team Conferences with teachers when a course or section is changed such as adding a team to a section

    Update Team Conferences time slots automatically with teachers when a change to a course/section is made such as Allow Conferences and adding a team to a section. So that we don't have to mass delete then re-add. Because sometimes schools notice something is wrong after guardians are already signing up.

    We noticed that Skyward made a change that when team conference time slots have already been added if a course/section is change such as adding a team to a section the students of that section are now automatically added into the available list for those time slots in that team.…

    1 vote

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  6. Relationship Choices in OnLine Enrollment

    When a parent or guardian is doing online enrollment, and they come to the relationship drop down, the drop down includes all the possible relationships, even those for emergency contacts. We would like to make it a little easier on the parents and limit the choices for those guardian records. But we haven't found a way to exclude choices like "neighbor" or others that don't make sense. We need a shorter list for them.

    7 votes

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  8. Student Locator Icon access in Educator Access Plus

    The student locator icon is not available when teachers are in Educator Access Plus taking attendance in their class. If a student is not in the classroom but not absent, they have to go out to the dashboard to access it (Because they have security to do so). It would great if they could click on the student locator pin on the bar at the top while in their gradebooks.

    6 votes

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  9. On the Gradebook Assignment Score Entry screen add the option to allow teachers to see tardy absent type along with Unexcused and Excused

    On the teacher gradebook Assignment Score Entry screen add the option to allow teachers to see tardy absent types along with Unexcused and Excused

    1 vote

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  10. service call contact preference email default

    I think it would be nice if you could make the default for "contact preference" to be email instead of phone when submitting customer access requests (aka service calls) to Skyward. I would almost always prefer to have Skyward attempt via email first but always forget to change the option from phone to email before submitting.

    3 votes

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  11. Scan Mobile ID to Load Current Student Profile

    Program SMS so that a secretary can scan the students Mobile ID and have the corresponding Student Profile pop up on the secretary's Skyward. This would make the attendance office much more efficient when having to see so many kids face-to-face each day.

    2 votes

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  12. history

    Homebound/Hospital
    We would like the option to view the HISTORY and be able to add ATTACHMENTS when needed.

    4 votes

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  13. Add YTD Earned Credits as option to Custom Report Card

    Would be helpful to have 'YTD credits earned' as an option under GPA and Credits in the Custom Report Card.

    3 votes

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  14. Activities English Learner

    Adding students to Activity based on EL status. When you choose to use the Special Program Link for English Learner, it automatically adds student to an activity group.
    Problem is, Skyward is adding Active and Inactive students in to the group.

    I would like Skyward to adjust their program to only add ACTIVE students to the Activity Rosters.

    We do not exit students from EL when they withdraw to another district or out of country, because even though students leave us, they are still classified as an EL Student.

    1 vote

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  15. Gradebook report in spreadsheet format

    It would be really helpful to be able to pull a report in spreadsheet format of student grades. The Student Assignments report under Student Management > Educator Access Plus > Gradebook > Reports is close, but I need a csv that I can edit and upload to other systems.

    6 votes

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  16. Mass Add/Change/Delete Student Requests

    Currently, the default ranges on the Mass Add/Change/Delete Student Requests is set to Exclude Special Ed students. This causes them to be excluded even when running this utility using a processing list. All other mass utilities have open ranges, so schedulers didn't look at the ranges in this utility before running it with a processing list and didn't realize all ESE and Gifted students on the processing list were getting left out. They are now going in and changing it, but it would be nice if the default was truely open ranges so students protected by law weren't inadvertently excluded…

    5 votes

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  17. Allow Special Characters in names - for example - Zoë - right now we can enter it disappears as soon as you leave the field.

    Allow Special Characters in names - for example - Zoë - right now we can enter the ë but it disappears as soon as you leave the field.

    3 votes

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  18. Conferences - Adding a message to the Conference tab of Family Access

    Conferences - Adding a message to the Conference tab of Family Access
    I can ONLY have a message when the conference is closed. I would like to add a message at all times to the conference tab.

    4 votes

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  19. Import Schools where Transcript Sent

    Update skybuild imports to include schools where transcripts were sent information.

    Date Sent
    School Name

    We have high school campuses using other applications like Naviance and Career Cruising to send transcripts however we need to import the schools sent information back to Skyward transcripts tab for historical purposes.

    TSUG

    3 votes

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  20. Do Not Report to Ed-Fi - Enrollment Record

    We need a "Do Not Report to Ed-Fi" box on the E/W entry page so certain entity enrollments can be ignored for the Ed-Fi sync.

    Situation: we have an entity that is our alternative school. We enroll students from our distirct as well as neighboring districts. We need to report the students from the other districts for attendance purposes, so we gave the entity our HS DOE number. This causes issues when our students enroll or withdraw from this entity. Quite a few of our students are only taking a class or two, so they are enrolled in both our…

    3 votes

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