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Student Management Suite

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  1. Allow assignment groups to be visible by students in Family Access

    It would be great if the students could see the Assignment Groups in Student/Family access. If a teacher organizes their grade book using assignment groups and has them sorted that way, it would be great if the students also saw it that way.

    1 vote

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  2. Students Current Scheduling - allow filtering of dropped courses

    Include a "dropped" field in the actual List View so that Dropped Courses can be Filtered out. Will make it much cleaner for counselors to view and at the same time easier to match with Student Fees.

    4 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Scheduling  ·  Admin →
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  3. Teacher Scheduling Report

    It would be great if the Teacher Schedules Report (WS/OF/FS/RE/TS) would print the teacher type on the report. Is the Teacher an Alternate or a Primary on the section meet. Also, it would be great if the report template allowed you to select which teacher type to include Primary , Alternate or Both. For example, you may only want to print the report to view courses where the teacher is set as the primary teacher but not include the Alternates.

    7 votes

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  4. Identity Field and Data Mining

    Adding the Identity area is very helpful, however, Data Mining will not allow you to create a report to only export students with entries in the Identity field. The only way it exports is for all students and then you have to compare line by line to find the students that have a different legal name than what their profile name (preferred name) is.

    6 votes

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  5. Add Graduation Date to transcripts

    Add the field Graduation Date to be added as an object on custom transcripts. We are using a free form text box to add the graduation date.

    3 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Grading  ·  Admin →
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  6. OTHER ID ON MY STUDENT LIST IN GRADEBOOOK

    In gradebook, on the MY STUDENTS list you cannot see the Student ID/Other ID. We think it would be beneficial to have this to ensure FERPA when discussing a student with a teacher. They rarely know the other ID that we us so frequently on the SMS side. It currently can only be seen if selected inside a course gradebook.

    11 votes

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  7. I need a feature to prevent grade override within the gradebook similar to that of term grades that I am able to manually lock for new

    Please reference my prior service call 5219641. Since we utilize cumulative grading, we cannot implement a starting term grade and would ideally use option 5 to submit transfer in grades for a new student. Unfortunately, those grades are not locked and our Schoology platform which is utilized by teachers overrides any existing grades entered with any sync activity. As a result, those assignments are automatically defaulted and converted to a no count with no grading. Since teachers often use both platforms, simply making an adjustment to one or the other is not realistic. Teachers would be required to convert and…

    1 vote

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  8. Adding guardian information to Educator Access

    The teachers are not able to view the boxes for the custodial parent and pick up. The parents have to be added for their educational rights in the family section, however the teachers cannot see any notes or if the custodial/pick up boxes are checked. Therefore could release a child to the non-custodial parent without knowing that they didn't have custody. This is a legal issue that needs to be corrected as soon as possible.

    2 votes

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  9. Remove Default Field Mark from Clone Grade Mark Groups for New Year Utility - WS\EA\GB\SE\PS\UT\GY

    To avoid cloning a grade mark group by mistake it would be helpful if none of the fields were marked by default. Currently the Grade Mark Groups field is marked automatically and must be unchecked so it does not clone again. This would force the user to check only the box(es) that need to be cloned.

    1 vote

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  10. Support SAML group claims for security groups

    We implemented LDAP group syncing for security groups which worked well for us for as we transitioned to SAML authentication to support passwordless logins and multi-factor authentication it does not function correctly. We need to the user to login via LDAP to update their groups or manual expand the groups for SAML users to update their LDAP group memberships.

    I think long term it would be better to support SAML claims which can be used to replace LDAP group syncing and to dynamically populate security groups. This can be a 1:1 mapping or provide an option similar to LDAP groups…

    1 vote

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  11. Family Access Missing Assignments

    When we get a new student in our school the assignments that were given prior to their enrollment show up as missing assignments. Parents/Students get confused or upset about the number of missing assignments that then show up. Past assignments should not show up for new students that enroll into a entity.

    4 votes

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  12. Create an option in Advanced Features Entity count reports show count breakdown by students in house and serving schools ?

    This report would give us the breakdown of number of students attending in house and those attending specific serving schools.

    6 votes

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  13. Pop-up Confirmation for Auto Email Notifications

    Oftentimes, if just switching families (for the ability to do online registration), editing an address of an already withdrawn student, adding a current student to an entity (8th gr to HS) - to name a few situations, the automated notification causes alarm among staff and parents. Instead of having to go into Automated Emails and inactivate the notification every time a simple change is needed and then having to remember to go back and activate it again, it would be helpful it there was a pop-up asking if the email notification should be sent.

    6 votes

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  14. Have a Mass Assign Course Fees

    Have the ability to mass change the course fees for the new year. After copying current to future the amounts usually need changed. Instead of entering them one by one have the option to mass change the amount. For example our 20 English courses have the same fee amount. Instead of going into each individual record have a mass change to a set amount.

    3 votes

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  15. Updating Staff information (like SSN)

    It would be nice if there were more options when it comes to updating staff information. I would like to delete all the SSNs for all staff in particular, but right now that is a manual task.

    2 votes

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  16. option to exclude a calendar on the CTE Contact Hours utility

    I think it was last year or maybe year before that TEA requires a calendar with instructional type DAEP ... our DAEP is not its own entity, it is a "program" so students remain in their home entity and get a schedule change to be with DAEP teachers ............. so recently I've realized that instead of exluding LOTS of DAEP sections in the contact hours utility ... it would be a lot simpler and cleaner to specify our AEP calendar to exclude those students from getting contact hours while they are at DAEP

    4 votes

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  17. Resident District/ Address Master

    Would it be possible to tie the Resident Enrollment field on the entry withdraw to the address master? So once the District for that address is identified it stays with that address no matter who moves in. It would eliminate having to research that address every time someone moves in.

    4 votes

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  18. Mass add payment plans from a processing list

    Mass add payment plans from a processing list, currently have to do this one by one per student account.

    2 votes

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  19. Add add' "Printing Option'" to the Staff Information Report (WS/SF/RP/SI)

    REQUEST:
    • For ‘staff information report (WS/SF/RP/SI)’ add an additional Printing Option to have room location of teacher/staff, also, print on report. Want to be able to see building AND room teacher/staff is assigned

    4 votes

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  20. Add the Student State ID to the student browse

    Can the Student State ID be added to the student browse?

    10 votes

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