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Student Management Suite

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  1. Mass Export Report Cards with a Custom Filename Format

    In order to import or share student report cards into some of our other software, the vendors require the report card files to have the filename as either the student ID (Other ID) or student name (LastFirst), so it would be helpful to have these options when exporting from Skyward.

    3 votes

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  2. More functionality for displaying different student name

    When in GradeBook allow the user to select if they want both the Identity(Legal) name and the Name, AKA field to appear on the screen and be able to do the same on the reports. Would like the Name, AKA to be in () after the Identity Name.

    1 vote

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  3. Email Notification when family cancels absences request in family access

    I have notifications enabled to notify our secretary when a family member creates an absence request via Skyward Family Access. This is working great. However, if that family member goes in an cancels the previously entered request that has not been approved yet is there a way our secretary can get an email notifiation of that? Also, would be nice for the parent to get an email of that cancellation as well.

    6 votes

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  4. Teacher Widgets for Long Term Substitutes

    Teacher Widgets option for Long Term Substitutes working on campus. Currently Skyward setup the teacher box must be checked on the staff record. Requesting that the widgets be available if the substitute box is checked instead since this is how they have to be reported on all PEIMS submissions.

    1 vote

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  5. offer the availability to have more that one staff member receiving the notification on when a parent submits an Online Registration .

    offer the availability to have more that one staff member receiving the notification on when a parent submits an Online Registration. This way if one person is out then there is a back up, and there would be no holdup when when registering.

    8 votes

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  6. Critical Alert Pop Up

    Create the ability to turn off the critical alert pop up on student profile for specific users. For example, if admins want the alert turned off so they don't get the pop up every time they pull up a student with a critical alert. Without affecting it for all other users.

    7 votes

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  7. Ability to view customer fees by grade - Browse screen filter options

    We are looking for the ability to view outstanding student fees by grade. With the view Fee Activity, we lose the grade.
    With customer details, we have the grade, but then do not have a fee balance that shows. We need this to capture our 5th and 8th graders before they move to a new building for end of year activities.

    5 votes

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  8. Add the ability for custom district report cards to be emailed along with the option to be posted to portfolio.

    We still print and mail report cards home, it would save us a great deal of time and money if we had the ability to send the report cards to email, allow us to select Home email and family 1 or 2 Guardian email addresses. Give us the option to send Via email and/or post to portfolio.

    12 votes

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  9. 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.

    3 votes

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  10. Create more time tracking features in Guidance

    Allow for entries not attached to a specific student. This would allow for large group guidance lessons or non-counseling activities to be tracked to help fulfil the Texas state requirement for counselors to track their time spent in counseling versus non-counseling tasks.

    1 vote

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  11. Quicker way to tie a Curriculum Key to multiple Courses in multiple years

    It would be nice if there was a utility much like the "Mass Create Curriculum Master Records" but that would simply tie any course without a Curriculum number to the appropriate Course Key Number under the district-wide entity. Rather than going in line by line and entering missing data. This would be just to clean up what others have failed to either notice or enter when creating a new course. I feel this would save time while also helping to make sure data is as cleaned up as possible. Currently, the only solution to this issue is going in course…

    1 vote

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  12. Add Classroom Referral field added to Skybuild so classsroom referrals can be removed from discipline referral exports.

    Discipline referrals that are actually classroom referrals are currently exported as actual discipline events because the field is not available to alienate the entries.

    1 vote

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  13. Include the header that appears in the PIMS Maintain Data screen in the PIMS Export files.

    Adding the ability to include the header that appears in PIMS Maintain Data screen into the PIMS Export files would be very helpful.

    2 votes

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  14. Survey Error Total Report Should be exportable to Excel

    State reporting reports should be excel compatible due to large amounts of data that needs analyzing. The totals report especially. Dumping to excel takes cleanup because of the extra page titles and no spaces between formats. All reports should be Excel compatible as it is the way to analyse data easily.

    10 votes

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  15. MTSS referral entity

    Have the MTSS referral entity change to the new school as students move from one school to another rather than having to edit or add the record again.

    1 vote

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  16. Schedule students into specific meets from a section

    We would like to be able to schedule students into specific meets from a section.

    1 vote

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  17. Positive Attendance red "stop screen"

    In Pocket PaC, if a student is scanned into the library, student resource center, etc., when they should actually be in their math class, you get a red "stop screen" that alerts the staff scanning the student's ID that the student should be in class at that time. Positive Attendance doesn't have this feature so those scanning students into a location aren't made aware that the student should be in class. Staff cannot check every student's schedule to verify whether a student should be allowed entry into the location when they have a line of students at the door.

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    1 vote

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  18. Food service balance scan

    Is there a way that a student could scan their ID (like a price check at a grocery store) and see their current food service balance? I realize Families and students can see this in the Skyward Family Access app. This option would be made available to students as they start to walk through the line to check their current balance, and see what type of purchase they can make.

    1 vote

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  19. Add non-cte industry credentials/work-based experiences to the transcript

    Currently, you can only add the Career/Tech Ed industry credentials and work-based credentials to the transcript. We are required, in PA, to add the non-cte industry credentials and work-based experiences to the transcript, especially since it directly affects the pathway to graduation.

    4 votes

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  20. Printing Student Barcodes on Schedule

    It would be great to be able to have the option of printing the student barcodes on their schedules.

    2 votes

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