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  1. HTML Options for Fee Mgmt / Print Statements

    We frequently use the Fee Mgmt Print Statements report and would love to have the text box be HTML instead of just plain text so that we could insert a hyperlink to our payment website.

    4 votes

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  2. Early Grad Class Rank

    When a student graduates a full year early, there is no way to include them in the class rank for the cohort that they are actually graduating with. This is due to DPI requiring that they stay in their same cohort. I had to find a workaround to get these students to be included. It would be nice if there was a dropdown or field for "Grad Year for Rank" that could be 12, even though they are still in 11.

    5 votes

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  3. updated RTI custom form templates

    We would like for the RTI custom form template options to match the custom form template options on the 3.0 sped forms. Please see the attachment to see the options in the sped forms, that we are requesting on the RTI forms. Currently the RTI forms are not being utilized to the max, as they are not formatted as we need.

    2 votes

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  4. Tardy Kiosk Configuration - "Calc minutes..."

    In the Tardy Kiosk Configuration, there is a section to "*Calc minutes late based on: Period Start Times, Class Start Times, Absent Start Times, Specific Start Time"; however, choosing one of those options doesn't record, or report that "calculated" time anywhere. I'm not sure the purpose of having those options there and it's caused confusion and inefficiency in trying to figure them out. Please remove them or, if they are intended for only a specific states use, please indicate that on the screen so we don't waste time looking at them.

    1 vote

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  5. Allow parents to EDIT and RESUBMIT a NSOE application!

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    IDEA: Please allow parents to EDIT a NSOE through Skyward, as it would be extremely beneficial for our campuses. If the skyward developing team could add a way for the registrars at the campuses to flag a NSOE application as “INCOMPLETE”, the parent would then be able to return to the application and resubmit any documents when necessary. In the event we have parents uploading incorrect documents or are missing docs/information, the parent could resubmit. Currently, our campus registrars are limited to only Deny or Cancel the application entirely. Campuses do not request parents to email…

    68 votes

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  6. pass fail grades

    On standards grading the Pass/Fail only applies to Subjects and Skills not the overall semester/term grades. If you do not use the P grade mark for any other Grade Mark Group you currently need to change the Grade Mark to be an "other" override and then the teacher would need to override the Term grades. Otherwise you will need to continue to manually change the term grades to P/F grade marks manually.

    But P/F works differently with secondary gradebooks; correctly appears on the report card. We would like to request programming for P/F grades within standards gradebooks and report cards…

    2 votes

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  7. Tennessee needs a report to identify when a Primary teacher is changed so that Teacher history can be updated

    Tennessee needs a report to identify when a Primary teacher is changed so that Teacher history can be updated. This info is stored in the Meets history. How can we pull it nightly?

    1 vote

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  8. We need a mass add staff classification!

    We have over 600 teachers/admin in our district who need Student Support Plans and Teacher classification to get into IIEP. We have done this manually for most, but we constantly have new staff and it is hard to go into each person one by one to "make sure" they have it. Why isn't this a utility yet? It is necessary for DEX.

    14 votes

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  9. Add period and total minutes to extracted data FTE report

    it would be helpful to have the classes listed on the FTE student schedules from the maintain in period number order and to add the period number to the report. It would also be helpful to total the minutes for each student in addition to totaling the FTE.

    3 votes

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  10. Give more flexibility to naming of periods in Bell schedule

    Give more flexibility to naming of periods in Bell schedule. Most of our high schools have a short period at some time during the day, so if it was between 2nd and 3rd period they might call it 3a. Or some schools would like to call it "Patriot time" or "Prime time". They don't want it to be the zero period and show up out of order. Or maybe a way to default student schedule to sort by meet times.

    3 votes

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  11. Secondary Gradebook - Ability to Pull Category/Assignment specific level data

    I would like to suggest developing a report (or ability within data mining) that would allow users to pull reports of specific categories/assignments from the secondary grade book.

    Example: I want to be able to see the trends of 3rd gr MATH TESTS or READING TESTS throughout the school year. I can only pull Quarter or Semester grades. There is a report that sort of gets this data but it is student specific and there is no way to sort and organize the data by a class or grade level for comparisons.

    Screenshot attached. show the CRAC category I would…

    4 votes

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  12. Course requests configuration - add message

    I would like to be able to add a text message on the course Selection Screen in Family Access.

    3 votes

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  13. Fee Management Configuration Configure Auto Email Ability to Add Fee Comments as Pre-Defined Field

    We send parents an auto email message when student has a misc tech fee for Chromebook damages or replacement. I know that we could create more codes one for each of the various types, but this message just has the amount of $100 for the tech fee and with such a large amount parents tend to call student accounts when they get this message before they look at making the payment in RevTrac with the comment.

    2 votes

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  14. Processing list using TSDS UID

    We need the ability to add students in a processing list via their TSDS UID #.

    2 votes

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  15. Add 2nd Family

    Under the report Payor Notification by Email (under Administrations, Free Management, Reports) I would like to email 2nd families at the same time I am email the primary family that fees are due/past due. Right now I can only email primary.

    4 votes

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  16. Add field for youngest child

    It would be very helpful to have a field to indicate whether a student is the youngest child or not.

    3 votes

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  17. Report Legal Name to Ed-Fi - add checkbox field in data mining

    PLEASE add the "Report Legal Name to Ed-Fi" checkbox as a Yes/No option to choose in data mining so that we can find inconsistencies without having to stare and compare as to which names have changed. Thank you!

    3 votes

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  18. Add demographics to Enrollment Application Processing area

    Can the following demographics be added to the Enrollment Application Processing area: Gender, Local Race, Income Range? We have a district who want to use the 'Create Chart' feature, but would like the above-mentioned demographics in order to use it to fit their needs. This could help others benefit from this tool, as well. Thank you.

    1 vote

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  19. Add National Recognition Program to FTE/Diploma Tab

    College Board has added a new National Recognition Program. We would like it added to the FTE/Diploma tab in Student Management under the National Merit Scholar selection. It would need a drop down box with four selections:
    African American Recognition Program
    Hispanic Recognition Program
    Indigenous Recognition Program
    Rural and Small Town Recognition Program

    File from the College Board is attached as well as an image of the FTE/Diploma tab with the area we would like it added to.

    3 votes

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  20. Standard Transcript - Additional Grade Buckets

    We are on a block schedule and need 6 grade buckets on our transcript - T1, T2, S1, T3, T4, S2. The standard transcript is exactly what we need, sorted by subject, but it only allows 5 grade buckets. Can one more be added?

    2 votes

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