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Student Management Suite

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  1. Virtual - Courses with Students in Multiple Entities

    Due to the pandemic we have now added virtual teachers, students and classes. Providing a virtual teacher at each building and each grade level is not economically feasible, due to the number of enrolled virtual students. Creating a new virtual entity is not an option due to state accountability.

    This year’s solution for virtual teachers was to enroll them as a staff member in each entity. Classes were created with the virtual teacher and virtual students. Each of our virtual teachers have multiple gradebooks in each entity. For example, a teacher with five core classes at each of our six…

    7 votes

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  2. Method of Instruction

    Can we add Method of Instruction as part of the available fields for printing class rosters, attendance, etc....

    6 votes

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  3. Add FS Application and all other options to NSOE the same as they are available in Online Registration

    Add FS Application and all other options available in Online Registration to NSOE

    It would make so much more sense and save so much time and extra hassle for parents and staff to have the same options available for new students enrolling in the district as the students that e-enroll each year.

    Once we have a parent registering their new student(s) we want them to be able to do everything needed to register at that time. We may not get the parent to go back on and complete the rest of the registration process which includes important steps such as…

    8 votes

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  4. Data mine assignments synced from LMS

    Currently, you can only data mine information about online assignments built in Skyward—not assignments that are synced over from an LMS such as Canvas. Our district needs the ability to generate an Excel report of listing all students' assignment scores and submission dates. I appreciate you can generate assignment detail and progress reports that list assignments reports via Educator Access Plus, but the print format is not usable.

    7 votes

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  5. Report for grades not transferred in by teachers

    Due to Covid-19 and the massive amount of students changing their courses due to changes in enrollment from brick-and-mortar to virtual and then back. We are unable to keep up with monitoring the teachers transferring grades into the new course without a report to aid the Administrators that flags the teachers who are not transferring grades. This is resulting in massive amounts of grade changes and corrections and reprinting of report cards. This issue is based on the process that Skyward has put in place to have teachers manually transfer grades for students to calculate Final and Semester. With this…

    8 votes

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  6. email report cards

    Several of our schools have been asking for the ability to email report cards in a mass process. They have been posting online but less and less parents are going into Family Access to check so they are considering going back to a mailed report card.

    14 votes

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  7. Please add staff Photo ID number to Skybuild Export Builder.

    It is becoming a more and more common requirement for data sources. It would help to just use the number as a unique identifier, or at the very least, as a source to match up to other sources via staff ID numbers.

    8 votes

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  8. Mass Assign SAT/ACT/TSIA Reimbursement

    In Texas we are required to indicate students for whom we have received reimbursement from the State for an SAT/ACT/TSIA exam. That needs to be a field that we can mass assign so we are able to quickly add that notification when we receive our school day test scores. Currently, you have to go into each individual student and add the indicator.

    8 votes

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  9. State Reporting TX - require data entry for New GRADE LEVEL field for those with POP SERVED of 06

    in the STAFF PROFILE area, when adding a RESPONSIBILITY for Role ID of 033 or 087 ... and a POP SERVED of 06 ... require user to enter a GRADE LEVEL ... this would help avoid errors from rule 30090-0120

    13 votes

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  10. New Student Online Enrollment allowing a existing guardian to edit their address

    New Student Online Enrollment Application allow existing guardians to update their address.

    When a guardian is bringing their child/children back into the district since the guardian is already in the system they can't update their address which has almost always changed. It would be very helpful if they could change their address on the application.

    7 votes

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  11. Ability to run state reporting exports by processing list

    Please add the ability to run state reporting exports by processing lists.

    This would be very helpful as we are trying to fix certain students who do not automatically pull, etc. Thanks, Lisa

    12 votes

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  12. could you please add "COVID testing" in the drop down box as a selection to make under "reason for visit", and also under "treatments"...the

    make under "reason for visit", and also under "treatments"...these are part of the "Office visit" under "Health". Thanks

    6 votes

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  13. Add Guardian Language choice to the Extra Information options that can be selected for the Student Profile header

    The student language field is an option on the Extra Information to Display list for the customizable header information in student profile. For our district it is more important that we can see the Family 1 home language field because that would indicate if an interpreter is needed when calling. Please consider adding the guardian language field as an option on this list. An alternative would be to create a new field called Interpreter Needed and making that available on this screen.

    6 votes

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  14. Allow Method of Instruction as a sort running Student Schedules

    It would be great to have the Method of Instruction option when running student schedules to allow printing of only in-person learners. We are having our in-person learners coming into the building on Dec.

    10 votes

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  15. Allow the Technology questions to be required in NSOE

    The new technology questions added to tNSOE do not allow us to make them required. Can this be allowed?

    6 votes

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  16. Canvas/Skyward integration, remove missing mark that was previously synced

    Work with Canvas integration so that when a previously "unscored and marked as zero" assignment is actually scored and then resynced, the "Missing" mark is removed; currently, the grade is transferred but the missing mark is not removed in Skyward and has to be removed by assignment, and/or by student.

    9 votes

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  17. Indicators on class roster report

    When running a class roster report (not as a teacher, but on the student management side) we want to be able to print the student indicators. The teachers are able to print this easily with this roster report, but it doesn't on the office side, it currently only allows us to print the 540, LEP, and Sp Ed indicator. Which is great. However, there are times we want to be able to print other indicators as well.

    13 votes

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  18. Message Center

    It would be great if on the message center, you could also have a Staff selection. Alot of times, I send out district wide messages for fundraisers and such. For staff, I enter additional names. That is time consuming and I honestly could forget someone. Having that option to select staff along with teachers, parents and students would be a huge help...because teachers do not include staff.

    15 votes

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  19. Add Method of Instruction and District Category to Student Profile > Ranges

    We would like to see the Method of Instruction and District Category added to the Ranges options when narrowing down the Student Profile. Please add these as options for filtering. Thank you!

    7 votes

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  20. In Discipline Entry, you have parent notified as a check box so we can sort that data; would love to have SRO involved button so we can sor

    Here is what I submitted to the help desk but was suggested I do this:
    When I do discipline entries, I have a box to click when I have taken the time/initiative to contact a parent regarding an incident. This is helpful. I am wondering if there is a way to do the same for if the School Resource Officer (SRO) is involved. For example, a child is found in possession of a pocket knife. Typically, the admin would enter the information into Skyward. I would most likely select the 'parent notified' box but would also like to select/somehow designate…

    6 votes

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