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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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Student Management Suite

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  1. 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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    0 comments  ·  Discipline  ·  Admin →
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  2. + 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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    0 comments  ·  Attendance  ·  Admin →
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  3. 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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  4. 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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    0 comments  ·  Health  ·  Admin →
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  5. "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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. SpEd ACT Form to mimic the Forward Form layout (with the dropdown options)

    This past year we worked with Skyward on the Forward Form to clean up the accommodations and designated supports to ONLY be able to choose options that apply to Wisconsin in the drop down. We put in a support ticket to see if we could do that same for the ACT Form. Skyward doesn't have any current plans to do so and advised that we submit an idea. Our Director / DAC, requested that we submit the idea in hopes they would change their mind and reconsider this option.

    1 vote

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  9. enter summer school bilingual participation by processing list

    Mass assign bilingual summer school by processing list instead of by individual student.

    6 votes

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  10. Student Access option to Show Other Name

    Student Access option to Show Other Name
    Teachers can change the gradebook view and report cards can be printed with 'other name'. But students still see legal name in their log in.

    6 votes

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  11. Add Button to View Application Letter at WS\ST\TB\FS\FS

    Having the ability to click a button and view an individual student's food service application on the food service tab would be very helpful by saving precious time.

    1 vote

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  12. USE OF TEAMS IN REPORTS-ATTENDANCE

    In Day Summary Report I need to print this out by Team but can only print it out by grade. If you can add the option to print by Team it would save me a lot of work. Right now I have to use a Processing List for each Team and we have 10 Teams. There are other reports that we can't use for Teams as well that if added would be great and save time and trouble.

    2 votes

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  13. Different color screen for New Year scheduling

    I have almost made changes in the current year scheduling because I clicked in the wrong area. Could there be an option to change the color of the screen when working in new year scheduling? Thank you.

    12 votes

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  14. Entity Counts to not include students that don't really attend

    It would be nice to have the entity counts exclude or show a breakout of students that are not really in attendance, such as students enrolled for services only. Thank you!

    9 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Enrollment  ·  Admin →
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  15. Ability to remove punctuation from names when creating usernames/emails

    On the Automatically Generate Logins and Passwords screens (PS\CA\SE\PS\CF\AU) we need the ability to remove any punctuation and spaces from all name parts (first, last, middle, namekey). Currently we can remove spaces from namekeys but not from first, middle, last, and we can't remove punctuation from any of them.

    We are using the "namekey with spaces removed" option for our usernames but currently have a vendor that won't accept emails with apostrophes, such as O'Neil. It would solve a lot of problems if Skyward could remove those when creating the usernames/email addresses.

    11 votes

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  16. Ability to drop all classes for a student on the student Profile Schedule screen

    In our elementary schools, we have many students who start with one teacher and have several classes assigned from that one teacher using a scheduling group. When that student changes teachers each class has to be dropped manually on the Current Scheduling area on the student profile. The ability to choose to drop all and enter one effective date would be great, or at least the same screen as when adding classes and entering effective dates for each class on one screen would work. The same as when using the schedule all button on the add course button. This would…

    15 votes

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    3 comments  ·  Scheduling  ·  Admin →
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  17. default cursor to search field in all list screens

    currently when you open a list screen the cursor is no where. You have to click on the search field. It should automatically put the cursor there so I can start typing. It already does this on the student profile.

    1 vote

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  18. Add sort by Family ID for Student fee statements

    Please add a sort by Family ID when printing Student fee statements. We manually have to do this every year.

    1 vote

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  19. Would like to be able to view a student's Current English Proficiency Level in Educator Access Plus

    Would like teachers to be able to see a student's Current English Proficiency Level in Educator Access Plus.

    1 vote

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    0 comments  ·  Gradebook  ·  Admin →
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  20. SkyScan Install Options

    Update the SkyScan installer to support command line switches including the silent install. This would allow us to push the installation and not have to manually install it.

    3 votes

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