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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. advisor

    When we have our Online Registration Verification Status report, that tells us who has not completed Online Registration. To better communicate with that student's advisor, we would like the Advisor field to this Online Registration report. We would like to give the advisor a list on open house day to see which families still need to register. Thank you.

    1 vote

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  4. Send confirmation of Emailed progress reports to the AP

    Our AP would like to receive 1 email per teacher, noting the progress reports for which classes was sent out on what day.
    Or a way to pull a report from the message center to see who did send their progress reports.

    1 vote

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  5. It would be beneficial to include the Voc Ed Exception date range fields in the course by course report to help verify if a campus entered d

    It would be beneficial to include the Voc Ed Exception date range fields in the course by course report to help verify if a campus entered dates in that field.

    1 vote

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  6. 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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  7. 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.

    2 votes

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  8. 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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  9. More options to edit Teacher Access Security

    We need the ability to remove access for weighting an assignment in Teacher Access security settings. When using category weighting and selecting to NOT allow teachers to change category or weight, this option should be disabled but it is not. Skycoder cannot be used in EA+, so an option to edit the security access is needed.

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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. We have staff that would like to receive an automated email if there has been a change to a current entry or withdrawal record.

    We would like to receive an automated email if there has been a change to a current entry or withdrawal record. There is one for when a new entry or withdrawal record is added but not when there is a change.

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  13. Student Conflict Detail Report Needs a Display Period option

    When using Period Redefinition, the Student Conflict Detail report can be difficult to read because it displays the scheduling periods. There needs to be an option to print using the display period instead so the report is easier to interpret. It is already a difficult report to read, and when Period redef is set up it makes things far more confusing. Being able to see the conflicts by display period will help to be sure that courses are flowing the way that is expected. The scheduling board shows the periods by display period, so the student conflict detail report doing…

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  14. Tiny Quality of Life Improvement

    On the Skyward support site the drop downs in the blue banner, Stay Current, Customer Support, Downloads, etc. in Google Chrome at 100% zoom often times when I draw the cursor down to select an item in the drop down menu the drop down menu disappears. I imagine this is due to a tiny gap between the blue banner and the drop down because when I increase the zoom to 110% or higher this doesn't happen. I don't know how much of a difference it makes to others, nor the amount of work required to fix something like this, but…

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  15. Automated Behavior Email to parents - configured to work off an import (Skybuilds)

    Automated Behavior Email to parents - configured to work off an import (Skybuilds)

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  16. 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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  17. Additional field on the report card

    We would like to have options for the report card such as: retention recommended or other options when we have had discussions with families and we want them to know our suggestion.

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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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