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Student Management Suite

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  1. Student Educational Milestone screen set up to view like the Career Plan screen

    Student Educational Milestones screen set up to view like the Career Plan screen. Grade columns 9 - 10 - 11 -12 with educational milestones listed under the grade column. Detail milestone code, short description, Required to Grad? Y or N, date completed.

    1 vote

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  2. In need of a report that shows the date/time a gradebook was updated.

    It would be helpful for our Principal to be able to run a report that shows the last time/date a gradebook was updated. There are reports in Skyward that show times/dates for Parent/Student access and the last time/date Attendance was updated for each class. This would help to ensure all gradebooks are up-to-date and grades being reported are the most current.

    6 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Gradebook  ·  Admin →
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  3. Ability to have individual custom forms emailed to a specific person once the form is completed in NSOE or back to school packet

    Ability to have individual custom forms emailed to a specific person once the form it completed in NSOE or back to school packet. As of now I think it can only be done when it is put out to families as separate form.

    3 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Enrollment  ·  Admin →
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  4. 2 votes

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  5. Offense Time Not to default to 12:00 A.M.

    When entering an Offense within the Student's Profile or Discipline section (not from teacher's Gradebook), offense time should be blank and require user to enter time instead of defaulting to 12a.m. Alternatively, at least default to system date if blanking out and making required isn't doable.

    2 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Discipline  ·  Admin →
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  6. Adding State-EDE number (STN) to teacher Security Group

    Adding State-EDE number (STN) to teacher Educator Access Plus Tab. A majority of our testing software utilizes the student State-EDE number (STN). It would be beneficial if we could have the State-EDE number (STN) placed in another spot or allow access to ONLY the State-EDE number (STN) in the IN/NCLB tab or student profile. Teachers have access to the student's other ID and internal ID but not the STN which doesn't make sense. We do not allow teachers access to the IN/NCLB tab due to student SSNs being attached to that area.

    1 vote

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    0 comments  ·  Teacher Access  ·  Admin →
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  7. Transfer attendance to different course in the same period

    I would like to be able to transfer attendance between different courses that are offered during the same period when I do a schedule change, the same way I can do when switching sections of the same course. We offer combined classes that are regular and honors for a course, and students switch at the end of the semester to the honors section, and we need to transfer attendance although these are two different courses.

    1 vote

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    0 comments  ·  Attendance  ·  Admin →
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  8. Family Access Food Service and Fee Management Paid By (parent name)

    Please add the parent name to the paid by, it just says 'Via Web'. We have split families and both parents have equal rights for the children, they want to see that they paid for food service or the fees. Even on the receipt it doesn't show who paid for it.

    1 vote

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  9. pd by in food service

    Nowhere in Food Service does it say who made a payment. It only says Via Web. It does in Fee Management Fee History: Webstore Payment made by (parent name). In Food Service it doesn't say that in the history. Please add this to the history.

    1 vote

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    0 comments  ·  Food Service  ·  Admin →
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  10. Letter generation system for the health records area of Skyward

    This request was submitted to me by our health staff. "We need a letter option for dental exams. Skyward already has the ability to run reports, we just need to add the letter option. The dental report is located under Office-Health records-Reports-Dental.

    An example of this can be found under Office-Vaccinations-Report-Vaccination. There you can see Skyward has templates for Legal Letters. We use these templates constantly."

    1 vote

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  11. Security settings in SkyDoc Tutorials

    When giving tutorials or instructions on how to set items up, it would be nice to be given directions that some user securities may need to be changed. For example, when setting up the HGSS, in order for Teachers to enter the scores, their security settings in their security groups need to be changed to allow them access. Currently, there is nothing in the template or directions informing you that security settings may need to be changed, or what settings/path will need to be changed.

    18 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Security  ·  Admin →
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  12. Auto Email Notification when a student is entered as MV so that the liaison can be notified and a email generated notifying them of their ri

    Auto Email Notification when a student is entered as homeless McKinney-Vento so that the liaison can be notified and a email generated notifying them of their rights automatically as required in the law

    3 votes

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  13. Add Student Ranges to Nightly Auto Email

    Nightly Auto Emails are being generated for inactive students long after they have left the district or graduated. Add Student Ranges functionality, like there is for Event Auto Email. See attached screen shots showing setup

    3 votes

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  14. SBAA Cash Receipts

    I would like to see SBAA Cash Receipts have the flexibility as the Account Management Cash Receipts in changing column order and width in order to have the receipt date on the screen with other pertinent information and not out of sight to the left.

    1 vote

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  15. Student Access - Option to show Credits without GPA

    We would like the option to show earned, failed, and pending credits for students in Student Access, withOUT also making GPA's available to view.

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  16. clone processing list

    I would like to be able to clone a processing list. Many times we need to use the majority of a list but take a few kids out and it's time consuming to have to manually add them all again.

    12 votes

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  17. All canned reports should have other id/name key to create processing lists

    Every single report that is a canned report in Skyward for districts to use should ALWAYS include either the student ID or the name key so that processing lists can be created from them. It is such an easy field to add but I have spent the past 2 hours manually creating processing lists because the students couldn't be imported. It's such a waste of time when adding this one field to report is a minor change and would allow an incredible amount of flexibility for districts to have the data they need at their fingertips.

    17 votes

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  18. Change Family Access Users to be entity specific when not in District Entity.

    When a staff member has access to one entity, they should not have the ability to access any parent, student, or teacher from the entire district.
    Our secretaries assist parents, students, and teachers for a variety of areas from registration, trouble shooting in the gradebook, etc. Their access should include ONLY the entity they have access to, not the entire district. This is a privacy and security issue! When I placed a service call to see if there was a configuration to limit a specific entity, the answer was to have each staff member check the box "Only show guardians…

    4 votes

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  19. EMERGENCY CONTACT AREA FOR STAFF

    We had an episode today that required emergency contact for a staff member. There was no where on the student management side that included this information. This is vital information that each building should have access too online.

    14 votes

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  20. tsds number on class roster

    Due to Texas using TSDS numbers for testing, it would be nice to add TSDS numbers to Class Roster Reports.

    2 votes

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