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Student Management Suite

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  1. PA: Economically Disadvantaged record start or end created when lunch code effective date changes

    When lunch codes change, so does the Economically Disadvantaged special programs record. Unfortunately, one does not "trigger" the other. Since you cannot schedule a task for mass adding a special programs ED record, you cannot fully automate the process. If you eliminate the process of Previewing then Updating then it can be a scheduled task. OR add economically disadvantaged to your list of importable program type. Currently, you can only import immigration status and method of instruction. SEE ATTACHMENT

    3 votes

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  2. Electronic Signatures on Custom Forms for Registration

    It would be beneficial if parents had the ability to electronically sign custom forms for registration.

    27 votes

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  3. FBA/BIP State Templates

    It'd be extremely helpful for security if DPI's sample FBA and (mainly) BIP forms were created as templates in Skyward. We currently have them created as district forms, but in order to give staff access to the Behavior Intervention Plan, they'd get access to all district forms, which we can't do, so we end up having to print them and disperse, which also isn't great for security. Could be added as SpEd form templates or do a setup similar to IHPs so the security is separate even though it's an attachment.

    1 vote

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  4. Add period field from the grades tab to data mining

    It would really help if the period field under the grading area could be added to data mining.

    7 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Data Mining  ·  Admin →
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  5. Auto Email to parents who have not completed Registration

    It would be great if we could set up an auto email sent to parents who have not completed online registration. Or maybe update the options in the verification status report template and add a check box where if it was checked it would send an email to parents who have not completed registration and then the report could be ran as a scheduled task.

    44 votes

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  6. We'd like a youngest child free/reduced report

    We'd like to be able to run a free/reduced list by youngest child.

    2 votes

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  7. Change the the expected grade level to enroll in if the DOB is changed.

    In Step 1 of the application, the user enters the DOB and a popup displays showing the expected grade level to enroll in, and that grade level populates in a separate field.

    If the user changes the DOB, there is no popup identifying the correct grade level and the grade level expected to enroll does not update.

    This is problematic as parents often fail to update the grade level and the custom forms populated in Step 6 are generated dependent on the grade level.

    This seems to be more of a programming error than an enhancement request.

    4 votes

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  8. Auto Email - HLS Screening Required

    We would like the option to have an auto email generated when a Home Language Survey completed in NSOE results in the need for required screening.

    4 votes

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  9. Processing List when Printing Indiana Statements

    When printing Indiana Statements it would be quite helpful to be able to use a Processing List instead of manually entering over 700 customer IDs.

    1 vote

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  10. Home Language Codes

    The Home Language Code is located in the student profile, the family tab, and the LEP tab, but these do not update each other so you have to remember to add/edit all three sections. It would be a lot more helpful if they would update in all 3 locations when one of them is updated, because it is hard to remember that there are 3 different places to add/edit it and the code should usually be the same in all 3 locations as well.

    5 votes

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  11. Create a report of manually applied coursework

    The ability to run a report of manually applied coursework in the graduation requirements would be helpful. Our Principals are supposed to approve all manually applied coursework and would like to audit this coursework. Currently, they have to go to each individual student profile to audit if coursework has been manually applied.

    7 votes

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  12. Printing total earned cretits by subject on Transcript

    I wish there was an option to print the total earned credits per subject on the transcript.

    1 vote

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  13. Split "Honor Entity Security For Grading" configuration into 2 separate configurations

    We'd like to have the "Honor Entity Security for Grading" configuration option split into 2 options. One would allow "forward viewing" of grades by entity (something we'd like to disable). The other option would allow "backward viewing" of grades by entity (something we'd like to continue to leave enabled).

    1 vote

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  14. student indicators for pref pronouns and preferred name

    Teachers/office staff would like to have an indicator for preferred pronouns. With the coming for ed-fi and needing to record it on the identity tab it would be helpful to have that area listed under the student indicators. Right now I do use it under student categories but I don't want to enter the info in two places. While in the same area it would also help if the preferred name was include in the indicators. We are having a hard time keeping track of students preferred names with their legal names when comparing state reports and info from other…

    7 votes

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  15. Open Attendance for Whole Class

    Teachers would like an "Overwrite All" button or for the "Overwrite" function to be eliminated from attendance taking so that they can simply open their Post Daily Attendance tab, open their class, take attendance, and save it without the added step of overwriting each student individually.

    1 vote

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  16. Mass Delete Pseudo Approval in Family Access

    We need to be able to delete prior year pseudo approvals for enrollment in Family Access. While the filter works to show only those waiting approval the system is bogged down with thousands of changes from past years.

    13 votes

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  18. Attach PIMS State Course codes to COURSES not CURRICULUM

    If the PIMS State Course codes were attached to the courses instead of to the curriculum master, it would be possible to create career plans that jive with the ACT 158 Pathways.

    1 vote

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  19. Enhance LEP Student Indicator

    We are required to track LEP students even after they are fluent. Could the indicator have an option to "Show Indicator even if Student has exited the Program" similar to what is available for the Special Ed Disability indicator?

    3 votes

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  20. Add the ability to blank out all census block groups

    Currently census block groups can be imported via skybuild only via an attached student. I recommend adding the ability to blank out all census block groups for addresses. If all students leave a home, then the address record can only be modified by using address master. This feature is not very easy to use for large scale address maintenance. Since we have a change of block groups this year, we end up with 2010 and 2020 CBGs in address master. The 2010 are not associated with students currently, but may be associated as a snapshot address, or future students may…

    4 votes

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