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Student Management Suite

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  1. Buddy Blocker and/or lock certain classes/blocks

    As we get ready for future scheduling, can you check with the Skyward rep to see if 2 features are available for us to use:

    1. Student Constraints (Buddy Blocker) - is there a feature in Skyward that allows us to identify students that should not be placed together? Even further, is there a feature to indicate a soft block (admin recommendation as students are disruptive together in class) or a hard lock (must be seperated due to fights/restraining orders, etc). I see information about creating teams, but I am unsure how that would work at the high school where we…

    2 votes

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  2. "All Students" preview screen

    When making changes for families and selecting "All Students," having an option to have a pop-up show the changes that will take place, along with a confirmation asking if you'd like to proceed. This could help cause fewer issues with changes being made and affecting other families/blended families.

    3 votes

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  3. Edit UID on TN/NCLB

    Can the option to edit the TN Unique ID field on the TN/NCLB screen be allowed? This field is currently not editable. At times students have a legacy State ID not matching the Unique ID as they should. If we find the correct match per the Ed-Fi > Request Individual IDs, we cannot select it since the student already been assigned the wrong one. Being able to update the UID to match correctly would be very helpful.

    2 votes

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  4. Can we have more color options for student indicators? As well as more than one character for the indicator?

    Can we have more color options for student indicators? As well as more than one character for the indicator?

    8 votes

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  5. 3 votes

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  6. Allow more than one concurrent enrollment statuses on a students KIDS data.

    Allow more than one concurrent enrollment statuses on a students KIDS data. I have several students this semester that are enrolled in college classes through our community college and also taking tech classes through the technical college. It only allows me to have one status. So when it comes to our ENRL, right now, I can only enter one of these criteria, not both. It would be nice to have this shown on the students records for KIDS reporting.

    2 votes

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  7. Send course credits to state, but not counted in Skyward (Bettering GPA use case)

    It would be nice to have a way to send course credits to the state, but not have them counted twice in skyward. The use case is for students trying to better their GPA for a course. They take the course again and this needs reported to the state, but you do not want the credits doubled up in Skyward. So when you enter a "Variable Credit" on a historical course for 0.0 credits, you get errors from the IDOE saying you are required to send them credits. Maybe a flag or something could tell skyward not to internally count…

    5 votes

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  8. Attendance count/ minutes in and out on Report Cards

    When using the minutes in and minutes out in attendance and you have 2 periods....it is counting a full 1/2 day when you enter and excused on in Period 1 regardless of how long they were gone. It should pull onto the report card the same way it pulls to the state. This should be an easy fix.

    2 votes

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  9. Comments on Health Condition indicator at a certain security level for Student Indicator

    Allow all members of the Student Management group to view comments on Health Conditions indicated by the Health Condition indicator at a specific security level for Student Indicators without giving access to the entire students' IHP.

    2 votes

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  10. NSOE Mass Purge Using Processing List

    In order to be in compliance with the Wisconsin Public School District General Records Schedule for record retention, we can only keep enrollment/registration forms for 7 years after the withdrawal date. Being able to mass purge with a processing list of students who meet that criteria would be beneficial.

    2 votes

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  11. Remove 0.00 when importing a blank percentile score into Test Scores

    When importing test scores that have a blank percentile value, 0.00 becomes the value in the field instead of just remaining blank. This doesn't look very clear, as all other fields are blank except the percentile field. Would love to see a blank remain a blank in Skyward. See example.

    2 votes

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  12. Request from teacher: Change the symbol in the gradebook for 'no count' assignments so that it is different from 'missing' assignments. They

    change the symbol in the gradebook for 'no count' assignments so that it is different from 'missing' assignments. They currently both have a star. It would assist with us needing to go back in to update missing assignments. Seeing a different symbol for 'no count' we would know that we did not have any scores for that assignment that needed to be updated. Thank you for the consideration.

    2 votes

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  13. Skybuild/CTE Family Import

    Because CTE is growing by leaps and bounds, ISD's and RESD's have a need to import and overwrite much more student demographics information. In particular Family and Emergency Contact information.

    Currently, Family information imports that we use between district databases and our CTE database can only be imported once. After that, the settings to overwrite family information is not available in Skybuild Imports. This prevents us from providing critical Student and Family information updates between systems.

    For that matter limiting the districts ability to overwrite data using an import is a bit of an over reach.

    It is critical that…

    7 votes

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  14. Change the default on the Mass Post Grade Change Request to EXCLUDE dropped students

    When using the Allow Teachers to Make Grade Change Request to Closed Grading Periods when the request are being processed under EA+>Gradebook>Secondary>Grade Posting Administration>Teacher Requests for changes to Previously Posted Grades>Mass Post Grade Changes>the default is to Post Grades for Dropped Students. 99% of the time you would not want to do this and if they don't select the option at the top to "Exclude Dropped Students from Mass Posting grades get posted that should not and this can easily be missed causing students to get credits for classes/grades that they should not get. The default for this utility should…

    5 votes

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  15. Create an AI Chat Bot

    Create a LLM Chat Bot by uploading all of your SkyDoc pdfs so users can use AI to ask questions and troubleshoot on their own.

    4 votes

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  16. We'd like a way for the bus number to populate in Student Access.

    In student access, not parent access, if the student could see the assigned bus number, it would save some headaches at school dismissal.

    2 votes

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  17. Emergency contacts

    Have a box next to the contact name to insert words like call this parents first or look at the comment box. I don't always carrot down to see these messages before I start calling emergency contacts.

    4 votes

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  18. Adding transaction dates to the course by course report

    Adding teacher transaction dates to the course by course report. This would be very beneficial so that you don't have to expand each section to view the dates.

    6 votes

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  19. Option To Open Skyward In Same Tab After Logging In

    I currently use SSO to sign into Skyward but also have the Allow Use of Skyward Password logon option as well.  When I'm in Preferences, I have an option "Open Skyward in Same Tab After Logging in" which is great. When I click on the question mark next to it, it states "This only applies when logging in with a Skyward or Network Password.  This does not apply when logging in using Single Sign On (SSO)." Is there a way you can make this available for the rest of my users who do use SSO but don't have the option…

    1 vote

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  20. Be able to add guardian workplace in initial entry of guardian instead of having to click edit and go back in to enter.

    Be able to add guardian workplace in initial entry of guardian instead of having to click edit and go back in to enter.

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