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Student Management Suite

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  1. Partial Schedule Report

    It would be helpful if the Students with Partial Schedules Report printed with Student Key or Other ID or linked up to a processing list option. This would allow the ability to send a direct message to students and parents and open the Arena Scheduling window back up once holes were identified during the future scheduling time frame.

    Thanks!

    5 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Scheduling  ·  Admin →
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  2. Offense Level as a Column to view in certain Areas

    In the Entry By Incident Area - OF-DI-DI if there could be a column labeled Offense Level for Major/Minor .
    Then in the Add Offense area if instead of having drop down box with Offense/Referral that if could be a drop down box for Major/Minor. She said that would work better. Is there anyway this could be setup.

    1 vote

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  3. Gradebook Combination

    "We need a work around for the Combine Classes feature. Currently, it only works for courses with the same code. I (and many teachers at my school) have co-taught courses which are split into two grade books per period (half regular education course code, other half special education course code). I am unable to combine them, even though they are the same period/section. I assign the same material to both and grading is really difficult and time consuming because I have two sections of kids for each period I teach.

    For example, I would like to make 1404/001 (regular ed.…

    1 vote

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  4. Course Requests Configuration by Grade Level

    In the Course Request Configuration in Student Access, we can choose the option to Use Course Request Time Periods to Determine if a Window is Open, and set up the time period by Grade Level. This option is helpful, but we need to also Limit the Number of Requested Credits by grade level. Sometimes the request windows can overlap.

    3 votes

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  5. Add student PA Secure ID to Keystone Exam Report

    In order to upload info into the PGT Act 158 Portal, student ID is required. The keystone exam report, under test score reports, only gives the student name. I tried data-mining, but the format of the Keystone Exam Report is much closer to what is needed.

    2 votes

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  6. Mass add tests with a default value using a processing list - WS/OF/CA/TS/UT/MU

    Would like to be able to mass add tests with a default value using a processing list. As students pass their IL and US Government tests (required), it would be nice to be able to mass add these by their Government class or by processing list with a default value of "Pass".

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  7. Add full change history of family information to family history area along with who made the change date/time.

    Add full change history of any family information to family history area along with who made the change date/time.

    14 votes

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  8. progress report attendance

    Currently, the progress report email to parents are counting the total periods missed by a student and not the days based off of the calendar. Would like to have an option for days based off of the calendar

    1 vote

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  9. NSOE add special education and 504 acommadation fields for parents to populate

    NSOE add special education and 504 accommodations fields for parents to populate. It doesn't have to be all fields just those to alert office they need to pass on to special education

    7 votes

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  10. Family Home Language

    The Home Language field has been causing issues during enrollment. If a family is marked as 835-Spanish that populates into the LEP Home Language for the student also. The LEP form for that student is all 211 - English, but it currently has 835 - Spanish. Now someone must remember to update that field. I think it would save time and errors if the two fields were not linked. If they were not linked there could be a field add to the student that would allow us to populate the Home Language from the enrollment form.

    Thanks,
    Donna

    1 vote

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  11. Add Medicaid Parental Consent Date for Special Ed Other tab in Student Profile

    SHARS and other groups and entities now require the date of parental consent for medicaid billing. This is collected in the Frontline ESTAR/ESPED program and we have asked them to add that field to the nightly export.

    However, we need a date field in Student Profile - Special ED - Other tab for the data to be imported to. Please see the screenshots doc attached. Thank you.

    6 votes

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  12. autoemail building registrar when NSOE is approved for their building

    NSOE applications are approved by the Central office staff who then "forward" them on to the building registrars. Building registrars have no way of knowing that the NSOE approval has taken place or that it is being forwarded to them. It would be helpful if, upon approval, an auto email would generate letting the building registrar know that it has been approved and is available to them for completion.

    2 votes

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  13. Food Service Reporting and Proc Lists

    It would be wonderful if there was a way to create a Processing List of Food Service Payors (either inactive or active - ability to choose). This would be helpful if you need to use this payor list in other areas of the software. Currently, I needed this list of Inactive payors with balances to find out when the family left the district. It doesn't work to use data mining as there are multiple siblings and multiple withdrawal dates, etc.

    2 votes

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  14. Automated Discipline Letters

    The option to have automated Discipline Letters much like the Attendance Letters would be helpful for parents and schools. The idea is that the letters would automatically generate discipline offense letters when a student accumulates 5, 10, 15, and 20 offenses or any combination set by the district that could be mailed and printed as well as posted in Family Access.

    3 votes

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  15. + attendance mark present only if in the correct place instead of anywhere

    Positive Attendance is based on the Period, not the Class. So students can scan into any device they want for the day but the Positive Attendance Log is what you use to catch those students and discipline them appropriately

    We would like a feature that only allows students to scan in and be marked present in the class they are schedule for.

    1 vote

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  16. Include TSDS number in Student Lookup

    Include TSDS number in Student Lookup. The enrollment emails we receive from TSDS do not include the student's name. The only identifying information in the email is the TSDS number. It would be nice to look them up by TSDS number like we can the PEIMS ID.

    2 votes

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  17. Two (2) Signature (Administered By) Fields for Medications

    Our nurses have indicated that TWO(2) signatures are required for administering medications. We need to have two places for Administered by to be in compliance with regulations.

    3 votes

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  18. "Password of the Day" for Fix Programs hurts productivity

    Skyward has implemented a "password of the day" for whenever anyone needs to use the Fee Fix program. Each day we need to use it, we need to reach out to Skyward via a service call and wait for their response. This hinders productivity as the response can take several hours to arrive. It also places unnecessary workload and stress on the Skyward customer service representatives. Ideally, there should be a way to automatically distribute this password to specific users (ones with system-wide access, perhaps?) who can divulge it to their coworkers as needed.

    26 votes

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  19. Other Name

    It would be helpful for the "Other Name" to pull into more areas. We want to keep the legal name visible for State testing/report cards etc, but the family and the student should be able to see the new name in both family and student access. At the very least, when an "Other Name" is entered, it should be visible in Family and Student access.

    13 votes

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  20. Add option to run Mass Change Lunch Codes by processing list

    Would like the option to mass change lunch codes by processing list. (WS\ST\PS\UT\LC)
    This would be very helpful for schools that are CEP/SSO and use a local socioeconomic form to determine economic disadvantage status. Processing list can be created from these forms to identify and code students that qualify as economic disadvantaged. These processing list could be used to mass change lunch codes.

    45 votes

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