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Student Management Suite

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  1. moi

    Please add MOI as a field for setting recipient ranges in Message Center. There are many times where we have different messages for virtual vs in person students, and it would be immensely helpful to be able to designate recipients according to their MOI.

    13 votes

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  2. Processing List added to the Attendance Template for State Reporting in IL

    I am requesting a processing list button to be added to the State Reporting Attendance template for my Attendance upload. This processing list button would be VERY HELPFUL to upload students that are attending under the learning option of Full Remote. Our student have had the option to attend hybrid or remote so I would have two different processing list and that button would make this process MUCH MORE efficient. Thank you and please advise. :)

    9 votes

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  3. Printing Electronic Signature Pages Within IEP/EVAL Forms

    When enabling an electronic signature on an IEP/EVAL form, it would be critical to have the ability to print that electronic signature within the form. This is essential when a student trasnfers to another district, and signature pages of consent are required to be sent. The ability to effectively use an electornic signature in SPED forms requires the capability to include that signature wtihin the form, as if the guardian signed it manually in person.

    9 votes

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  4. Allow Skyward App Parent/Guardian Users to Attach Files through Add Absence Request

    Add the functionality in the Skyward App (Family Access) so users can add attachments when using the "Add Absence Request". This will cut down on parents needing to separately email doctor notes or other required attendance documents or send the document with their student. This will also reduce the amount of work that is needed by attendance clerks or decrease the response time to updating absences.

    14 votes

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  5. Processing lists - Grade and Status options

    It would be helpful to have additonal filter ranges in adding students to a processing list. Could grade and status be added the filter options?

    9 votes

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  6. Allow student names to include an apostrophe when appropriate

    Many cultures utilize an apostrophe when naming their children. Currently skyward doesn't allow this. I teach kindergarten and we spend a lot of time focusing on our names and talking about how important they are. I am having a hard time explainging to my student why his name looks incorrect on his report card. :( In this day and age of diversity and tolerance, maybe this is something you should consider changing within your platform?

    6 votes

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  7. Function to be able to import teacher recommendations into course requests for future scheduling

    Teachers are able to put in recommendations for what class a student should be placed into the following school year. As a counselor making schedules, it would be very helpful it we could import these recommendations into the students' course requests so we don't have to do this by hand. It would save so much time and be very helpful!

    8 votes

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  8. Add MOI to Class Count Reports

    Please add MOI to the Class Count reports to simplify seeing the numbers of students in each group.

    9 votes

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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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