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Student Management Suite

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  1. create grade buckets to import current grades into without posting

    Trying to provide local districts with daily grades for CTE students. We are able to export the current grades but are not able to import them into the local district without them posting to the transcript. Having grade buckets to import into that don't automatically appear on the transcript would be beneficial. Perhaps grade buckets that could be activated to post when needed but otherwise do not.

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  2. Mass Fee Creation: Credits and Waivers Removal Utility

    It would be nice to have a Utility to Mass Delete/Reverse/Remove Credits and Waivers applied to students. We had to manually touch several hundred of our students to correct their book bills.

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  3. Interactive Scheduling Board Updates

    Option to change section name in interactive scheduling board when right clicking on the section chip and selecting "View/Update Class Details".

    When hovering over the section chip, add student counts.

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  4. Add the Arena Schedule Type to Data Mining and Skybuild

    Please add to Data Mining and Skybuild the Arena Scheduling Type code field (see screenshot) from the Student CY Scheduling > Office / Current Schedule / Student Schedule Generation / Entry by Student, which is displayed on the very right side of the data line.

    9 votes

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  5. 3 Year olds not in the PK Grad YEAR receiving Sped Services

    Year for 3K students who receive services through Marathon County Special Education. They have now taken over the Birth to 3 services for the County.
    As of now I put them in a PK grad year to upload WISE etc, then change back to a code I made (3K) This way I don't forget to do a status change for the following school year.

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  7. Assign security access based off student type.

    Allow access to the student tab but only have access to SPED students. We do not want users to edit the student type under ranges. For example, SPED Guidance Counselor needs access to SPED students only, not all students.

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  8. Mass Fee Creation: Credits and Waivers BUG

    Our district participates in a Federal program that gives us ESSER funds that pays for certain fees on book bills for our students. Our Superintendent wants the fees displayed and that they were covered by these funds for parents to see. Skyward told us to use the Credits and Waivers utility under Mass Fee Creation. This worked fine on our first year last year, however this year we ran into major issues. We clone our fees every school year so they are the same. For some reason when we ran the utility this year if a student had an unpaid…

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  9. Course Requests by Endorsement

    It would be nice for students to be able to request courses for online registration based on Endorsements. Please add the ability to set up course wish groups for online course requests by Endorsement.

    27 votes

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  10. Parent Login added as Merge Field

    It would be helpful if the parent login was a merge field within data mining's Mail Merge.

    2 votes

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  11. Can you increase the maximum display number on tables from 2000 to maybe 4000?

    It would be helpful when using student browse or using the discipline browse by officer. We can utilize data in the tables without running reports.

    2 votes

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  12. Mass Add Transcript Notes

    We'd like to use the Transcript Notes to provide more detail on students' graduation status (i.e. Diploma, HSED, Did Not Graduate) and there is currently no option to Mass Add transcript notes (or import--which would also work). Thank you.

    2 votes

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  13. When doing the general ledger update on food service, there is no way to differentiate between adjustments and payments.

    When doing the general ledger update on food service, there is no way to differentiate between adjustments and payments. Please provide a way to remove adjustments from the food service general ledger update, or at least indicate on the general ledger update report that they are adjustments.

    2 votes

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  14. PA Act 158 Endorsement Enhancement

    As part of PA Act 158 pathways to graduation tracking many many pathways are easy. The evidence based pathway however requires the 3 pieces of evidence from a list. While some are test score based some would be curriculum cluster based and some are milestone based so there is no single way to say any 3 combination of those items. I would like to see a way to apply the "3 items" rule generically so it can be 1 test score, 1 mile stone, and 1 cluster , or 2 test score, and 1 mile stone, etc.

    It would also…

    2 votes

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  15. Teacher Rosters

    It would be helpful if teachers could see rosters of other classes without opening them up to teacher tracking where they then can see gradebooks, etc. Just a limited view of rosters in their building, by course or teacher.

    2 votes

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  16. 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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  17. 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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    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! 

  18. 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

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  19. 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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  20. 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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