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Student Management Suite

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  1. Attendance taken by Alternate Instructor

    When attendance is take by the Alternate Instructor. the primary instructor is still getting an email that they have not taken attendance. We would like to be able to have the Alternate Instructor record attendance without receiving this type of email for the Primary Instructor when technically the attendance for this course has already been taken.

    28 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Attendance  ·  Admin →
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  2. Teacher Tracking and Gradebook Usage

    Gradebook monitoring is very limited. The only way to get information is to use filters when monitoring by Teacher/Class, or drill down in a chart. It would be helpful to have more reports or the ability to do something, like schedule a task and email results, with the information you pull from filters.

    Example: Last time teachers entered grades or a learning event is vital information. I can only get that information by using a filter, but I can't do anything with it. I would have to manually run it, download, and email the results to administration.

    Example: A list…

    9 votes

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  3. Add Gifted & Talented to display under Special Programs, similar to 504

    We would like to have Gifted & Talented added to display under Special Programs, similar to 504.

    6 votes

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  4. Waitlist for classes currently full

    A feature that would be very helpful for counselors would be a waitlist for students to go on if room in a class opens up. For example, if a student requests to take an elective class but it is currently full if we could have a waitlist feature that we can put students on that either enrolls them in the class if a spot opens or sends us an email letting us know a spot opens. It is too difficult to remember classes that students want to take and if you have multiple counselors working on scheduling you don't know…

    15 votes

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  5. Data Mining Sort Options

    It would be very beneficial if we could sort by a field (homeroom, advisor etc) and select the option "print all data on one line" together. As of right now, if you chose to sort and have a page break by a field, you can not chose to have all the data on one line. The same is vise versa, if you chose to have all data on one line, you can not sort/page break by a field.

    8 votes

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  6. Future Course Selection Letter for Parents

    It would be so nice to be able to print a Future Course Selection for each student to be mailed home to parents to confirm their student's course selections for the next school year.
    I would love a format similar to report cards with the option of "Parent or Guardian" and address. Also, allow for printable comments. We'd love to be able to inform parents on this form that schedules are firm and cannot be changed after a certain deadline.

    6 votes

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  7. Daily Attendance and Eligibility for Athletic Participation

    Are athletes eligible to participate in sports based on attendance? We currently have an Absence Occurrence Report scheduled to run daily against a Processing List. The task goes to head coaches to show students' attendance for that day. There currently is no option for "Today's Date" in this report, so our staff have to update the date on the reports each day--which gets cumbersome. An alternative to selecting "Today's Date" would be to add an option on the Day Summary to run against a Processing or Activity List.

    11 votes

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  8. Multiple email addresses for parents/guardians. Like a work and home.....

    Add option for multiple parental emails.....with a comma or semi colon in the family tab email field.

    9 votes

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  9. Add a Confirmation on Withdrawal

    Make the person who is withdrawing a student enter their initials to a question - "Do you have appropriate documentation to withdraw?"

    6 votes

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  10. Arena Scheduling and Displaying Classes available

    When we open Arena Scheduling in Student Access, we need the capability to allow the student to filter (Hide) courses that are unavailable to be scheduled (Indicator F for Full). We have a lot of courses that the students cannot select and they have to keep paging through to get to one they can schedule. This would be a huge help.

    7 votes

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  11. System Wide Users need access to view protected notes.

    System-Wide Users need access to view protected notes.

    10 votes

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  12. Attendance letter template assign to a list of students without scheduling the letters

    We have our scheduled attendance letter templates set up to create and send a letter to parents once a student reaches a threshold of six unexcused absences. This letter states that the parent will need to report to the school for a mandatory conference at a set date and time to discuss their student's truancy issues and what can be done to resolve them. However, some of these parents don't show up for this meeting and then those students are sent home with a letter stating that they are on an overnight suspension until his or her parent shows up…

    9 votes

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  13. Add notifications of what's new in gradebook for parents (newly graded assignments, etc.)

    These are ideas from a parent in our district that I actually think would be fantastic additions for all parents in Family Access since I, too, once had to keep track of a scattered child's assignments. My thought is to have some kind of "what's new" feed in Family Access that would show this information

    Here are his ideas:

    My son has a history of not turning in assignments. On some of those assignments, he has no recollection until they show up in Skyward as missing. I keep a history of all assignments, when they first show up in Skyward,…

    12 votes

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  14. Custom Forms - Add Skyward Fields

    In the Student>Custom Forms, we would like to have some Skyward Fields added:

    Advisor
    Counselor
    Discipline Officer
    Teacher of Record
    CY Homeroom
    CY Homeroom Room Number
    CY Homeroom Teacher

    We would also like to have the option to choose how the student's name displays when we select the Student's Name field. Sometimes we will want to use the full name and sometimes we want just the first & last name.

    Thank you.

    12 votes

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  15. NSOE Enrollment Users Mass Delete

    We need a utility to mass delete old and unused NSOE Enrollment Users. As of right now, there is only a Delete button that can be used to individually delete each one. This is time consuming and a hassle.

    29 votes

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  16. Tardy Kiosk Configuration Options.

    Add configuration options to allow the absent type/reason to follow the bell schedule. The bell schedule allows you to have a class start time and an absent time.

    i.e. They are marked tardy if absent less than 10 minutes and marked absent if they are more than 10 minutes.

    12 votes

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  17. Mass update KELPA tests by Program Participation Code-KANSAS St Reporting

    It would be great if we could mass code by participation code in the Mass Update Assessments for KELPA testing. There are 2 different test codes depending on the Program Participation level and it's a pain to mass code all students with the same code and then have to adjust a few hundred students who need the other code even using a process list.

    8 votes

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  18. Automated email for student enrolling with existing IEP

    We do not utilize the integrated IEP features of SMS 2.0, but would like to have the option to send automated emails to specified staff when a new student enrolls or re-enrolls who has an existing IEP status. This simple alert would allow procedures to begin much more quickly.

    10 votes

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  19. Time stamp field format in Custom Forms

    It would be great to have an actual time stamp field available when creating custom forms. Right now we use a text field and put in the ToolTip instructions to enter HH:MM AM/PM, but rarely is it entered correctly. This is a huge hindrance if we want to pull data out of the system for any sort of analysis. An field that automatically fixes the formatting (like the date field) would be extremely helpful.

    8 votes

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  20. Homeless Students receiving OSS - Texas

    Homeless students and OSS Discipline. Texas

    to comply with state law we would like a warning message to come up when a user is entering a discipline record for a homeless student AND trying to give the student OSS . We would like a message to pop-up on the data entry screen warning the user about what they are trying to do and that it does not comply with Texas law. We believe doing this modification at the data entry point would help districts not break the law - where as a PEIMS/TSDS edit at PEIMS/TSDS time is too late.…

    20 votes

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