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Student Management Suite

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  1. I have a teacher that in the Secondary Gradebook would like the grades to be a different color for "no count" and "missing".

    I have a teacher that in Secondary Gradebook would like the grades to be a different color for "no count" and "missing". This class has several students that will be assigned an assignment but not all of the students. When the teacher marks the rest of the students as "no count" the students and parents think they have a 0 or it is missing. He would like the "missing" to be red bold and the 'no count' be a different color.

    9 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Gradebook  ·  Admin →
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  2. Report Building Clone

    It would be great if you could build a report in one entity and then clone it into another one without building the report in each entity.

    55 votes

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    5 comments  ·  Reporting  ·  Admin →
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    Due to framework limitations this cannot be completed for all reports in the system; however, if you have specific reports that you feel cloning capabilities would greatly impact your district, please list those reports so that we can explore them on an individual basis! 

  3. perfect attendance reports for specific periods ~ to compare what we have to submit to the state ~

    There seems to be ideas about this that are being ignored , I know each year we call about the submission we have to do for perfect attendance but cant check perfect attendance until we get the list of kids from the upload of the submission and have to check kids one by one . It seems skyward should have something that we could run by period for our secondary campuses that would elevate checking one by one

    1 vote

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  4. Stripe

    Have Skyward integrate with Stripe. We were told to purchase RevTrak for the Food Services module and then now we have to purchase the Fee Module for a separate fee. Please integrate with Stripe as Stripe has full API capabilities.

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  5. Other Name incorporation into API

    We have a situation where we need to include "preferred name" and include into Skyward and all the programs that get their data from Skyward. Particularly this is an issue with Schoology. Could you please have the API configured to grab the preferred name and have it appear as the preferred name everywhere in Skyward and transfer into Schoology.

    I've been told from Skyward the following...

    Currently the API (LMS or OneRoster) does not have a data Endpoint for the student's Other Name. I do know that it is on programming's radar, however there hurdles to overcome yet.

    With the…

    9 votes

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  6. Textbook Quick Entry continuously scan without switching between fields

    Having the ability to continuously scan without clicking between the student and scan code fields.

    1 vote

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  7. allow overlapping enrollments

    In certain scenarios, it would be useful to be able to set certain Withdrawal codes to be able to allow overlapping enrollments. For example, if an enrollment was created and submitted to our State Reporting authority in error, we may need to retain a record of that erroneous enrollment, but would need to overlap a new, corrected enrollment.

    1 vote

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  8. Create Mass Add for Portfolio Highlights

    We add highlights for all of our HS students. Most of the time we add the same highlight to several hundred students. Currently they must be entered one student at a time. Having a mass add with the ability to utilize a processing list would be a huge time saver.

    1 vote

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  9. Ed-FI STN search

    We would love to be able to search by STN (Indiana State ID number) in the Ed-Fi Data by Subject area (WS\SR\EF\EF\BS). Often that's the only identifying information we have when working with state data reporting, so it would cut out a step (ie looking up the STN in student profile or elsewhere).

    19 votes

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  10. at risk lep

    Currently, the Mass Generate At-Risk Identification Records utility allows the use of Criteria Codes to mass generate At Risk records for students with a LEP record. This is very helpful but the utility will also code if you have students in a Dual Language Program that are not LEP but are participating as At Risk. These non-LEP students have a LEP record, as required, for funding purposes.

    I propose that an additional "sub-criteria" option is created for At Risk Reason Code 10 - Is of Limited English Proficiency. The "sub-criteria" should allow districts to select from the list of Parental…

    1 vote

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  11. Add a utility or configuration setting to enable Display Other Name Field in the Teacher Gradebook

    It would be helpful to have a mass add utility or a configuration option to automatically enable the Display Other Name (when available) in Teacher Gradebooks instead of the first name and middle initial. This would ensure every teacher would see/use the Other Name field if it is populated.

    7 votes

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  12. Add special programs View to student browse

    Would like to be able to view special program data in student browse. This would be a great tool for creating reports and processing list for all areas under special programs. It would also be great to be able to create filters to share with administrators and counselors to quickly access student program data and create charts to view trends and access the data.

    47 votes

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    3 comments  ·  Student  ·  Admin →
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    Are you looking for a browse that has a column for every special program and Y/N if they have a current record?  

    Or are you looking for something more robust that includes all the data fields in each record?  

    Please provide us with more details of what you specifically are looking for so we can determine if it is possible. 

  13. Custom Forms - allow form

    I think it would be very helpful to have an option that allows an Online Form posted in Family Access to automatically close after a parent submits it. Otherwise it is possible for parents to go back and edit what they have already done, and depending on the form this is very hard to try to manage. There are definitely times when you only want the parent to complete the form once. If the system can't automatically close the form once completed, perhaps an option can be built in to allow a processing list to be used to EXCLUDE students.…

    10 votes

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  14. Inactive Families Enrolling into NSOE get stuck

    We have had several situations where a former (inactive) family wants to re-enroll, and since they don't have any active students they can't get into a family access account. But they also can't request an account through the new student portal because they already have an email in the system. They are stuck in a catch-22.

    We go in to delete the email address from their account so they can do the account request, and some schools activate the student for a short time to allow the family into their old Family Access. Either way, it causes the family to…

    22 votes

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    9 comments  ·  Enrollment  ·  Admin →
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    Good afternoon.

    I have been working with my programmer on this issue.  He has gone into the code and this is how the code is set up:


    If an existing Family Access login has Allow Family Access still checked they should be able to log on directly to NSOE (don’t need a new separate NSOE account) if they know their login/password. The login area just needs to be set to Enrollment Access.

    If you want to mass change that status there is a utility to mass remove Family Access to guardians without Active Students.  It can be found at this menu path from the 000 entity:  WS\FA\FM\PS\UT\WA

    If you uncheck/remove the Allow Family Access, so that they can request a new NSOE account, that will be a separate account. The registrar will need to match them to the existing guardian in the system if they want to use that guardian

  15. Import Dyslexia Scores

    We would like the ability to import Dyslexia Test Scores. We are a district in Kansas, so it would be for that format.

    1 vote

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  16. Option to Require Classroom Referral Actions

    Give districts the option to “require at least one classroom action” when using Classroom Referrals and Allow Classroom Referral Actions.

    Setup is under Discipline District Setup
    WS\OF\DI\PS\CF\DS

    1 vote

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  17. College and Career Readiness Data on Report Cards

    We would like to be able to print college and career readiness indicators on report cards so students and parents are aware of their progress and what areas need to have more attention.

    1 vote

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  18. Adding a character counter to comment boxes within a standard based custom report card or in teacher grade books

    After creating a Standards Custom report card, the teachers are asking how many characters fit in each comment box. I do not see a character count in the teacher grade book nor do I see anything that would allow me to find out when I add the comment box while building it. Is there a way to add available character count to comment boxes within the teacher grade book? If not I think it would be a great tool for the teacher to have to know how much space is available to make comments.

    1 vote

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  19. Data-minable PGP

    We use PGPs to capture loads of information on students for teachers to view. The problem is that you can only view individual students and there is no report function. If the PGP were data-minable then we could run reports for large groups of students.

    1 vote

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  20. Legal Name and Full Preferred Name

    Expanding name fields to accommodate more characters is essential. At the same time, it would also be important to add a prefered full name option for gender identity preferences so that schools have an option to "show" the preferred name in educator access plus, family and student access. This would allow options for legal name printing on transcripts and other official documents AND sensitivity for gender identity.

    6 votes

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