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Student Management Suite

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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. Wellness Screening Question Customizations & Additions

    We need the ability to have more than 2 questions for customizing the Wellness Screening and the ability to put in a return date that can be seen in EA+ as well. I am attaching an example of our Elementary Sick Student Call In Log (zoom in to view full form). We want to customize Skyward to look similar to this. We also need to have a View for Office staff and the nurse to see who is out and for how long and what their return date is. Also, reporting in Data Mining on this would be super! Thanks!

    12 votes

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  10. Add extract comments to SkyBuild for why you are extracting a field, or how it was built

    When coding some complicated extracts, or adding numerical filters it would be nice to add a comment to the line to remind you 'why' you are extracting that field, or how a compound (group) field is being extracted that way.

    IE - 'Building Student Login ID from 1 char of FN, then Student ID for a A01234567890 formatting login. OR 'Default student password is MI or 'N' if no MI plus DOB in MM-DD-YYY format for a A01-02-2003 formatted password.

    OR - Add a large open textbox, optional of course, at the top where you can add things like, Who…

    9 votes

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  11. Consecutive Attendance Days Report

    Add the option for Today - # Days to the Consecutive Attendance day Report so it can be scheduled as a daily task to send to Principal. We have 13 schools and running it daily for each school is very time consuming. I was hoping to schedule tasks.

    8 votes

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  12. Student Access - Distance Learning Attendance Check In

    Hello:
    Create a "check-in" process on distance learing days in which students or their families must check in once per day through Student and/or Family Access. If students don't check in by 11:59PM on any given distance learning day, they will be marked as Unexcused/Not Checked In. See attached example from Infinite Campus.

    9 votes

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  13. NSOE change field name of SSN to Student's SSN

    Could you change the field Social Security Number to Student's Social Security Number? It's right under Mom's Maiden Name and often our parents enter their SSN instead of the student's SSN. That would help with confusion.

    8 votes

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  14. Method of Instruction Report For Teachers

    Teachers need to be able to print a report that displays a student's Method of Instruction. Maybe just add Method of Instruction on the Class Roster report?

    13 votes

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  15. Order of Student Incicators

    It would be nice to be able to adjust the order of the student indicators. Used to be we selected what slot, now that we have the open ended (which is FANTASTIC) we need to be able to select in what order they display.

    6 votes

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  16. Selected Grades Report: add Student email and parent email address fields.

    Would like to have Student emaill address and parent email address to the Selected grades report to make it easier to identity who to contact when we run the report. We run this for a D/F list and then contact the parent.

    7 votes

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  17. Attendance Alert

    It would be beneficial to have the ability to get an auto email or some kind of alert if a student is present the 1st period of the day and then is marked absent the next period.

    8 votes

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  18. Communication to families

    I would like to see an option for parents to select their perferred way of communicating with the school. E-mail, phone, text, etc.

    8 votes

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  19. Current Scheduling Start Date

    If a student RE-enrolls the same school year, we would like the START DATE on the student's currently scheduling profile to change to the new re-enrolled date. Example: Student entry 9/8, withdraws 10/2, RE-enrolls 11/5. The START DATE still shows 9/8. We want it to say 11/5.

    9 votes

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  20. Create an online assignment in EA+ that can update attendance automatically

    We need a quick and easy way for teachers in remote learning to take attendance. If we had the ability to create online assignments that updated attendance in the teacher gradebook automatically, it would save so much time. We could use a special code for this purpose so teachers could tell if the student has attendance by submission of an assignment vs. teacher manually taking attendance.

    17 votes

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