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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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Student Management Suite

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  1. Do Not Report to Ed-Fi - Enrollment Record

    We need a "Do Not Report to Ed-Fi" box on the E/W entry page so certain entity enrollments can be ignored for the Ed-Fi sync.

    Situation: we have an entity that is our alternative school. We enroll students from our distirct as well as neighboring districts. We need to report the students from the other districts for attendance purposes, so we gave the entity our HS DOE number. This causes issues when our students enroll or withdraw from this entity. Quite a few of our students are only taking a class or two, so they are enrolled in both our…

    3 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Enrollment  ·  Admin →
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  2. When creating Staff at entity; have option to go directly to security area to add security for that staff person

    When creating a Staff member, a teacher for example, it would be nice to have a box to check to 'Add Security' and upon saving that set up, be taken directly to the Secured User area to that specific staff members account and add their security without having to move out of the Staff area and into the security area and then retype in the staff name and expand to add the security. This could go hand in hand with adding and effective date to start or end security and / or active or inactive status of staff. Definite time…

    16 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Security  ·  Admin →
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  3. Missing assignments

    Add the teacher's name to the missing assignments feature that parents can sign up for. It lists the class/assisgnment but doesn't list the teacher.

    8 votes

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  4. Add Third (3rd) meal option

    Please add a 3rd meal Service option. We have schools that offer the Supper Program and Skyward doesn't have that option. Thank you!

    2 votes

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  5. attendance eligibility

    Our school is focusing on attendance and eligibility - right now, there is no way to schedule the Academic Eligibility report to run daily. It would be nice to add a "Today Less number of School Days" option for the date so I can schedule it to run daily instead of having to pull it daily.

    7 votes

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  6. Add Waitlist to Arena Scheduling

    Add waitlist to Arena Scheduling. We use Arena Scheduling for Summer School and would be nice if kiddos could be put on waitlist. We then could determine to increase seat count or add an additional section

    4 votes

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  7. message center staff groups

    It would be great have the ability to create groups of staff That could be selected to include with messages. Right now it involves adding all staff using additional recipients. That is cumbersome and prone to forgetting someone.

    8 votes

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  8. 2 votes

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  9. Medicaid Area in Student Management/Student Profile

    We would like to see the Medicaid tab listed under Student Managment/Student/Student Profile/Health. Our nurses are in here adding medication and office visits more than they are in the Office/Health Records/Student Profile area.

    3 votes

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  10. Report Template

    We need the option for a District template for the Gradebook report

    Email Progress Report.

    1 vote

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  11. 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.

    4 votes

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  12. make the all day check mark in family access absent request unchecked by default?

    The ability to make the all day check mark in family access absent request unchecked by default?

    3 votes

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  13. 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.

    4 votes

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  14. Ability to Select Banners on Custom Forms Requested

    There are currently four pieces of information that will print on a student custom form. They are name, gender, grad yr/grade and other ID. Our district would like the ability to select the information we want on that banner. It would be helpful to remove other ID, which is just a local code, and add state ID and PIN which may be helpful to other districts receiving our forms.

    2 votes

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  15. Mobile App: Attendance by Period

    The ability to have the option to take attendance by period with the mobile app so it combines the sections if they have multiple sections within one period.

    5 votes

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  16. Teacher Requests for Changes to Grades count by entity

    All my administrators are seeing "(4)" next to their "Teacher Requests for Changes to Previously Posted Grades", but those 4 requests are at our HS entity. The number should only display at the entity that has the request for changes.

    7 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Gradebook  ·  Admin →
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  17. Hide Specific Courses in the Course Master

    I would like the ability to pick specific courses in the course master using a check box and hide them. We run a computerized credit recovery program and those courses need to stay active. There are a lot of them that I would like to hide similar to how I can hide rows or columns in an Excel or Google sheet. This would allow me to see only the active courses offered to the majority of students.

    6 votes

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  18. Add an Attachments Section to the Identity Tab

    It would be helpful if there was an attachment section in the Identity tab. This way, we could digitally store a scholar's birth certificate (which would display their legal name) somewhere more secure from other staff roles.

    8 votes

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  19. Student Profile - Extra Information Add Gender Identity

    Please add the option to show the Gender Identy of a student on the student profile header in the customize/extra information area. We have the ability to only show gender identity for parents and teachers, but the office staff/student management users need to have this ability, too.

    4 votes

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  20. Add All Entry and Withdraw dates to the transcript

    Need the ability to add all Entry and Withdraw dates for the student on the custom transcript for the entire time the student was enrolled in the district regardless of what school the are currently active in.

    3 votes

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