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Student Management Suite

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  1. Add Internal ID to a student search or student browse area

    The Internal ID is automatically shared to School Messenger, OneRoster and other vendors that we auto roster to. It would be very helpful, especially when troubleshooting issues, to have a way to look up a student by the Internal ID. This could be accomplished by adding it to the list of options on the Student Lookup search page or by adding it as a column on one of the student browse views.

    10 votes

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  2. Option for New button to write to grade bucket

    We have a tremendous number of students changing classes due to current conditions. When teachers use the New button, we have to either repost grades or manually enter grades into grade buckets. It would be nice to have an entity level option that writes the transferred grades into grade buckets,

    11 votes

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  3. Attendance comment report

    The Attendance Comment Report is used by our elementary school. But instead of homeroom number, it would be more helpful to have homeroom teacher and student grade on this report. The sort by Date/Student doesn't even have HR number. We would love for HR teacher and grade level to be a choice on this report.

    8 votes

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  4. A WAY TO CHECK FOR HOLES IN THE STANDARDS REPORT CARDS

    Can we look at finding a way to look for holes in the Standards Gradebook like we do with the Secondary Gradebook? We have both gradebooks in our district and we are closing out the end of the school year and I want to make sure that every student has a grade for each skill/subject. It may not help for this year, but next year would be great.

    6 votes

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  5. Requesting update to report in this path WS\OF\CA\GR\RE\SE?

    It would be helpful for this report to have the option to print the Student's Other ID on the report (not just the NameKey). The Other ID is a main id that counselors use when reviewing information about students on various other reports and documents.

    11 votes

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  6. Message Center - allow TIME to be included when posting to Student and Family Access Message Screen

    When creating a message in the message center, there are 2 options, include in Student / Family Access and email. With the email you can specify a date AND time when it will be sent. But with Posting to Student / Family Access you only get a date.

    Please allow the same TIME option to be included for WHEN it will post to the student / family access page too. We might send an email at 6 pm and we do not want "early" notice also being posted to the message wall in Student / Family Access. The messages should…

    16 votes

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  7. A module that would allow schools to print ID cards using a created template.

    The ability to upload a created template into Skyward where we can print student ID's (including creating a bar code).

    Unless there is already the ability that I do not know about.

    8 votes

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  8. Transcripts posted to portfolio

    It would be nice if transcripts could be posted to the portfolio tab the same way report cards do.

    9 votes

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  9. Special programs reminder on entry/withdrawal

    Currently, in the entry/withdrawal, if a student has a special program tab, it prompts us to add or drop when a student is adding or dropping. There are two new tabs under the Special Programs that do not have this "reminder". It is the SAAP and the Method of Instruction. It would be nice if it would automatically que us to remember to close out those records.

    17 votes

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  10. Add Additional Column to Course Master-Details View for Teacher Conferences

    Add an “Allow Teacher Conferences” column to the Course Master - Course Details view to avoid having to expand each course or run additional reports to see which courses are set to allow teacher conferences and which are not.

    6 votes

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  11. Allow for sorting by other categories when posting daily attendance by name.

    Allow for sorting by other categories (such as student indicators) when posting daily attendance by name. This way, teachers that are conducting classes in-person and virtually at the same time can sort quickly.

    6 votes

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  12. Add Effective Date on Staff Maintenance

    Hello: We often get communication from our HR Department indicating an employee exit with a specific date. Typically that date is in the future. It would be extremely convenient if and effective date could be added to the Staff Entity Maintenance area to flag the exact date that the staff member should be flagged to Inactive. This would eliminate having to "Save" HR notifications and then remembering to inactive or activate the staff member based on information from HR.

    14 votes

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  13. Sort Mailing Labels by Student Last Name or Student Demographic Fields

    The Family Census Report where you can run Family Mailing labels does not have the ability to be sorted alphabetically by student last name.

    You also cannot run mailing labels based on basic demographic indicators.

    For instance, we want to run all free and reduced students mailing labels and organize them by student last name alphabetically.

    Data mining is NOT an option that can be used for this because our secretaries do not have security access to enter the food service password to run these reports.

    There are multiple times a year when the nurse needs to send out notifications…

    9 votes

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  14. Add the ability to filter on special codes in the gradebook progress reports or missing assignment reports

    I have several teachers that have requested a way to track late assignments. They use a special code of Late for this but there is no way to print a report for only students with late assignments. They would like this for RTI purposes .

    7 votes

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  15. Category Codes in EA+

    It would be nice if there were more color options in the category codes. Don't be hating on orange lol. Thank you for your consideration :)

    10 votes

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  16. Message Center Individual Email

    In the virtual world we currently now all live in we have found a need to be able to complete mail merge letters with select information that just applies to that individual and we then want to be able to send this information via email to students and/or guardians. Like a process where I can pick students I want and attach a document that only applies to them and send it to them individually from a list. EX: Class list that would supply individual students with their login information and password for a project specific to them

    8 votes

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  17. The length of the student middle name field needs to be bigger

    We have students with two or more middle names and/or two or more last names. The DOE wants their middle name reported as it appears on the birth certificate (last name, and first name as well) I have a student now who will always fail my STN report because his middle name won't fit. Can we add a character or two to the length of that field?

    10 votes

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  18. Add a checkbox that could be unchecked if the alternate teacher should not be reported on the DOE-CP.

    We have to add staff as an alternate teacher on a class meet for various reasons: para responsible for taking attendance, substitute teachers who need access to digital resources, other staff members and/or teachers needing access to digital resources. When pulling data for the DOE-Certified Positions, all staff members who are added to the meet appear on the report. A checkbox that could be unchecked when the staff member or teacher should not be pulled on the CP would prevent them from appearing on the report and prevent all the "missing responsibility code" errors that appear on the DOE-CP report.…

    8 votes

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  19. Automatic Email Setup when Fee Activity Changes (in Fee management configuration)

    We currently use the automated emails for new fees by bill code. The problem is that we cannot configure what the emails say by entity. It would be great if you can configure this by entity and not district wide only.

    8 votes

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  20. Interactive Scheduling Board Display-Column 1/Row 1 Displays

    When looking at the Interactive Scheduling Board, the top row and the first column are repeated. It would be extremely if we can have the option to lock them, just like you can in Excel and they will scroll with you instead of repeating.

    11 votes

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