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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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Student Management Suite

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  1. More filters on data mining to exclude

    It would be nice if we could exclude with a click of the button. For example, if I want all my language minority students, then I could say "not like English" and I would get all the students with another language than English. It would be a very convenient and easy to understand feature. Thanks!

    8 votes

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  2. class roster report add guardian email to details to print

    Adding the option to print guardian email on the Class Roster Report under Office\Current Scheduling\Reports.

    9 votes

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  3. Need entity settings for Student Wellness screener

    We need entity controls for parent/student ability to submit. We would not want elementary kids submitting their own screener but we may allow students to do it at secondary.

    13 votes

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  4. Fee Management - Ability to Reverse Charge if paid via web/vendor

    Currently, if a parent pays for a fee/charge using our online vender/wep payment, we lose the ability to reverse the charge and have to use an Arrears code to document the refund. It would be a lot easier if we could still just do a "reverse charge" and process the refund record for fees paid online like we can for fees that were paid with cash/check.

    7 votes

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  5. Parent conference confirmation emails - include guardian phone number field

    With COVID making conferences virtual instead of in person, our conference scheduler will be setting up scheduled phone calls. It would be very helpful to be able to include the parent/guardian phone number in the confirmation email to confirm that as the contact number.

    9 votes

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  6. Allowing guardian to be able to edit an New Student Online Enrollment form after it has been denied

    Allowing guardian to be able to edit an New Student Online Enrollment form after it has been denied. That way if they haven't entered the right information or included required documents they still can.

    22 votes

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  7. Returning Student Registration via Mobile App

    Can you add the functionality of Returning Student Registration via the Mobile App? I have a lot of parents who have requested this.

    12 votes

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  8. 6 votes

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  9. Teacher - Mass Enter Attendance - Virtual Present

    Indiana teachers who teach students virtually must now enter Virtual Present each day for each student. Since Skyward is hard coded to mark students Present, it will lead to a great deal of inaccurate data.
    We can now add additional columns for teachers on their attendance page.
    It would be great if teachers could click on the Virtual Present header to have it auto fill Virtual Present for all students.
    To add some complexity, we also are currently in Stage 4. This means 1/2 of the students are virtual Mon and Tue, the other 1/2 are virtual Thu and Fri…

    10 votes

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    Thank you for the feedback! With the release of June Addendum 9 (10/1/2020), PR 4495470 has added a Select All option within the header of each attendance option/column setup for teacher use on the Attendance by Name screen. With this, teachers can click on the link to mass apply the appropriate option to all students, make any minor modifications as needed, and save their class attendance.

    In addition, PR 4506708 was completed in Addendum 9 to make the MOI column sortable. In the event you have Method of Instruction records set to differentiate these students, teachers can sort these students together.

    I hope these new options assist teachers in their daily attendance entry, but please let us know any other feedback on the topic. Thank you!

  10. Secondary Gradebook 2 Seating Charts

    Hello:

    Due to the virtual and hybrid as well as in person instructional choices, our teachers have inquired if it would be possible to have two different seating charts within the same class. I know that Student Groups can be created but do these groups also offer separate seating chart options? If so how can this be accomplished?

    Please review and advise.
    Thank you!
    Lee Loomans
    WBSD

    6 votes

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  11. merge student records

    Allow fee management and food service customer/payer records to be merged.

    7 votes

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  12. MOI on attendance field

    Can you put "Method of Instruction" on the Today's Attendance field for each student, so you can see, if the student is absent, what MOI they are instead of having to go to their profile page?

    7 votes

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  13. Link Conferences with the Sub Assignment

    It would be extremely helpful if the sub assignment would also link the conferences for the teacher they are covering for. The sub needs to have access to view the conferences as they will be the one attending them while the teacher of record is out.

    6 votes

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  14. Need to be able to populate attendance based on Student Wellness screener fails/blanks

    We need an attendance link/update utility between the wellness screen and the attendance screen. We already have a "failed screener" absence reason. We'd love to auto-update attendance as screener fails are entered with that code. That way a teacher who is taking attendance in any period can see if a screener-failed student is still present in class and ask them to head to the office/nurse to leave school.

    11 votes

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  15. skylert attendance export (COVID related enhancement)

    With distance learning we need the ability to pull the Skylert attendance export for the previous day's absences. We allow students to work throughout the day so teachers can adjust attendance the following morning. We'd like to continue using our automated attendance calls via School Messenger but have them turned off because there is no option from this area (WS\AD\SL) to run the export on the previous day. Please add a field that would allow us to select the previous day.

    9 votes

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  16. Would like to see MOI available to view in Family Access.

    Parents would be able to know how the student is coded in our system.

    8 votes

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  17. "Start time" for online registration

    I would love to have an option to set a "start" time for online registration and maybe allow it viewable to parents in Family Access . If they try to register, they'll see the date and time that it will open.

    Example:
    Start Online Registration on Thursday, 8/13/2020 Time: 8:00 am
    End Online Registration on Friday, 10/2/2020 Time: 5:00 pm

    If we schedule registration for a specific day, it automatically opens up at midnight, and we come in to a plethora of emails from parents who needed assistance. If we can set a time on it, it allows for us…

    11 votes

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  18. Add Processing List to Period Detail and Summary Attendence Reports and 'Today's Date' for scheduling the report

    Teachers are now able to go back and edit attendance if students submitted work by 11:59 pm in all of Texas. There is no report that can be run that allows the user to default to "today's date" and allows a Processing list to be used. We need to add the Processing List feature to the "Period Detail" attendance report or the ability to add "today's date" as a setting for the "Attendance Detail or Summary" report. This is the only way we can set up absent reports that can run on a scheduled task. This is a critical need…

    9 votes

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  19. Add Dyslexia Service & Risk Field in Skybuild-Import

    Can we import Dyslexia Service Record from outside of Skyward.

    This is TX State Report Field and there is no way we can update this information. We have more than 2,000 students with this record and data is changed daily. We need something we can automate this process.

    We are currently on Skyward SMS.

    44 votes

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    Thank you so much for your votes on this idea and all the comments! We are having discussions regarding the ability to do this internally and with other vendors such as Frontline as mentioned in comments. 


    We will update this public status as soon as we have more to share. 

  20. PERFECT ATTENDANCE

    PERFECT ATTENDANCE: Date AND Period Specific
    Currently, skyward does not have a way to verify TSDS report PDM3-130-007. We need to be able to pull a report that ties to funding only and something that is date specific.

    13 votes

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