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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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…

    10 votes

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  5. "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…

    12 votes

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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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. 

  9. 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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  10. Add filter for Staff Wellness Screening to show only Active Staff

    Add filter for Staff Wellness Screening to show only Active Staff on District 000 entity.

    8 votes

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  11. Date/Time Associated with Showing Schedule after Online Registration

    Having the ability to only show schedule after OR is completed is great but this option needs to be associated with a date/time. Currently, we need to hide the schedule option right after Year End until OR starts and then adjust the settings again - usually at midnight, when OR begins. For example, the ability to hide from 6/30 - 8/1, but then show starting at 8 am on 8/1, once online registration is completed.

    10 votes

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  12. Expired Password Reset

    It would be very helpful if the utility to Mass Generate Family Permissions/Passwords (WS\FA\FM\PS\UT\PP) would include the option to only reset expired passwords.

    We send out letters yearly to families regarding their accounts then weekly as new students register through the school year. In this letter we include the initial login and password (blank if the parent already changed). A number of parent accounts have expired passwords since elementaries typically hadn't logged in much, but with virtual schooling we have a lot more parents trying to log in.

    7 votes

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  13. Edit for parents in new student enrollment

    Currently parents are unable to access forms if they have accidentally hit submit. Is there any way Skyward could add an Edit Button so parents could have access to make changes or add information??

    9 votes

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  14. Academic Area report

    Our secondary schools have transitioned to standards based gradebooks. It would be helpful to have a report that would list the academic area and the courses assigned. We had to manually go through each academic area to make sure each one of our courses was assigned to an area. What could have been done in a matter of minutes with a report that could be exported to Excel, ended up taking 16 hours to go through one by one at each secondary school.

    9 votes

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  15. attendance edit comments

    We would like the option to allow teachers to edit their own comments once they have saved comments.
    Our elementary schools are set up with 2 attendance periods. When the teacher enters attendance in period 1, it populates period 2.
    This year with COVID we have online teachers. They can change attendance type for period 2 after the initial save, but cannot modify comments for period 2.

    7 votes

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  16. Star Time and End Time for On Line Features

    Hello:

    It would extremely helpful if along with the date for On Line Registrationa and On Line Forms, if there would be a start and stop TIME as well. There is some confusion when choosing the dates as to what time the on line applications will actually start and end or if an administrator wants the application "turned on" per se at 2:00 today and end on Friday at 4:00PM - we are are not able to manage those time requests.

    Please advise.
    Thank you!
    Leonita Loomans
    WBSD

    9 votes

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  17. Wellness Screener changes

    • Ability to turn on/off based on entity and by grade level
    o We might be bringing students back into the buildings based on grade level. Doesn’t make sense for all parents district wide to see the screener if they are still 100% remote.
    o We have an Area Career Center as part of our setup and they may not be moving to the Skyward Wellness Screener.
    • Ability to add to questions or change questions
    • Ability for reports to have the option to print for students not in their default entity
    o This is due to the Area…

    6 votes

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  18. Ability to autogenerate both usernames AND email addresses

    When defining the user Login format, if I want it to be an email address, I apparently can NOT also generate email addresses. If Skyward didn't hard-code the '@' sign into the "Automatically Generate Email Addresses" option, then this would not be a problem.

    Remove the hard-coded '@' sign from email auto-generation, and also expand the "text" parts to allow for additional character length.

    6 votes

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  19. Average Daily Attendance Report

    A report that our administration offices would find useful and beneficial is to be able to run an attendance report that could show the average daily attendance by date - specifically a report that could be run to show the following information:

    Daily Absence Total
    Daily Absence Percentage
    Daily Membership - Enrollment Total for the day
    Average Daily Attendance (ADA)
    Average Daily Membership (ADM)

    Ranges to run by Grade Level and by Building and possibly homeroom
    Options to Run Student Detail or just Totals

    It would be great to be able to run this report at a district level. This…

    26 votes

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  20. Add a Family to a student by Family ID

    We have so many situations when a parent be required to enroll/register their children at multiple schools in our district. If one registrar searches for them by using a parent's middle name, another uses the parent's middle initial, and another one leaves it out entirely then we end up having to combine multiple accounts. We do keep stressing to them to check for matches. If the student is already registered and they need to add a Family #2, if they could have the screen open of a sibling and pick that same family ID number instead of having to type…

    15 votes

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