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Student Management Suite

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  1. Automated Email Notificaiton for Email Changes

    Our SpecEd Dept would like an option to get an automated email notification from Skyward when email addresses get changed- in particular for sped students. We already have the option for email notifications when names, addresses, and phone numbers are changed, but not for emails.

    8 votes

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  2. hide a class from a students schedule and Family Access

    It would be helpful to be able to hide a specific course from displaying on a students schedule or family access. We have resource "courses" that serve as a caseload and we do not want it to be view-able on the students schedule since it is not technically a class. We sync with Clever and can not use activities to sync those caseloads, so we put them in as courses.

    16 votes

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    2 comments  ·  Scheduling  ·  Admin →
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  3. Custody Alerts

    When students have a custody alert that is critical to the safety of a student, there should be a much more appropriate graphic than a tiny little "almost hidden" bubble on the very cluttered user interface. Other software packages have much more "alerting" graphics to make the matter obvious to busy secretaries fielding many tasks simultaneously while verifying custodial and emergency contact people who come to pick up students at the end of the day. Please pay greater attention to making your user interface more user friendly.

    137 votes

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    7 comments  ·  Family  ·  Admin →
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    As mentioned by others in the comments, you can leverage parental consent notes and/or critical alerts to help draw additional attention to these students. We did bring this feedback over to the Qmlativ product and much like on SMS you can require acknowledgement on Critical Alerts; however, on Qmlativ we do this per student based on their explicit situation, in addition to allowing a custom note to be added to the alert that can be viewed by anyone who has access to that student indicator for additional awareness. 

  4. Make a button or dropdown option for teachers when the parent was a no show for conferences.

    Once Conferences are done, teachers don't have an option to select "No Show" for conferences. They can check that the parent attended, but what if they don't show up?

    7 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Conferences  ·  Admin →
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  5. Make Skycode available for Educator Access Plus

    Would like to make the offense level mandatory on the teachers referral entry screen but Skycode is not available in this area.

    9 votes

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  6. Data mine program entry date for English Learners

    I have discovered that anytime an adjustment is made to the English Learner tab the Program Entry Date must be entered. This was a new field added for state reporting about a month ago. We would like to be able to data mine this date so we know which students need the program date entered so we don't have to do it when we are trying to enter minutes for our state reporting. Thank you!

    18 votes

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    2 comments  ·  Data Mining  ·  Admin →
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  7. CTE Completion, Graduation, and Equity Reports

    As Career and Technical Education (CTE) pathways/programs and the number of students who are interested in the programs increase, so should the number of reports available.

    Our Department of Education is going to use CTE:

    Completion Rate

    Graduation Rate

    PostSecondary Outcome

    Equity

    rates to evaluate our programs. Similar to our State Testing, PSAT/SAT, and other testing situations where we need to verify testing accommodations and student status (IEP, Section 504, Lunch, and etc), we are going to have to verify the completion, graduation, and equity data.

    I would like Skyward to build reports that are capable of reporting out the…

    10 votes

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  8. Verify all email address fields

    For ALL emails fields, student details, Parent Details, Emergency Contacts, Staff and TEACHERS:
    Verify the validity of email address fields. As a Minimum:
    Don't allow commas
    Don't allow spaces
    Don't allow special characters like !,$,%
    Require a @ somewhere in the middle with text before and afterwards

    We have a lot of our extracts with vendors crash every year because of bad data entered into any of the email address fields.

    10 votes

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  9. Create Ability to Automatically Generate Letters for Various Reasons

    We would appreciate the ability to generate letters for various reasons that will work like the automated attendance letters. Being able to pull students for various demographic reasons would be ideal.

    8 votes

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  10. ed fi errors

    Create a new document with every ed-fi error and how to correct it in Skyward.

    8 votes

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  11. Add 'Other Id' to Absence Occurrence Report.

    Add 'Other Id' to Absence Occurrence Report. At the moment the only identifier in this report is the student key and the student name. Adding this will help in better tracking attendance and comparing student attendance improvement over time.

    25 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Attendance  ·  Admin →
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  12. Mass Delete Portfolio Attachments

    Would like the Mass Delete Portfolio Attachments to allow deletion of Inactive students only based on Grad Year.

    9 votes

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  13. Edit academic standards in Secondary Gradebooks

    We are using academic standards in our secondary gradebooks. Once an assignment is created with academic standards attached and then is saved, you cannot edit any of the academic information. For example, the wrong point value is attached to an academic standard. Once the assignment is saved, this value cannot be edited. The entire assignment must be deleted and recreated. We would like the ability to edit academic standards once they are attached to an assignment.

    7 votes

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  14. Fee Management Emails

    When emailing statements, it would be so helpful to have the option to email to both parents in family 1 - both families would be helpful as well
    It would be like the message center then, where you could choose who receives it.
    We have so many families where mom is listed as parent 2 but dad is the one getting the emails but never checks his email.

    31 votes

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  15. More Automated Email Options

    Homeroom and Advisor changes should be on the scheduling or demographic changes for the student. Including it on the Enrollment changes isn't helpful at all because they aren't yet assigned to a homeroom when they are enrolled. So when a new student arrives, we have to go into Skyward to find their homeroom teacher or advisor.

    11 votes

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  16. Make Emergency Contacts Phone Number Required Step in On Line Reqistration

    During On Line Registration, require that at least one phone number be entered for any Emergency Contact that is added.

    11 votes

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  17. Delete Attendance Letters

    It would be so much easier to have secretaries delete attendance letters that have already generated if a student turns in the appropriate excuse. It is too risky to give them access to the Utility to Maintain because of the "Delete ALL Attendance Letters" option. We'd like to have the delete button right on the student profile- Attendance- Letters tab.

    10 votes

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  18. Which parent is responsible for the payment of fees

    In the student set up have a check box or a field to indicate which parent is legally responsible for the payment of the fees. Usually a problem when there is a 2 family house hold.

    12 votes

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  19. Attendance Mail Merge

    Similar to the mail merge in discipline, if you can create a freeform that will allow to create documents that pull student information directly from the student profile.

    This will be useful for all PA users in completing school attendance improvement plans which are required by the state. Users can create a standardized template that uploads fields with the student information.

    7 votes

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  20. Add All Special Programs to Data Mining

    There are a number of Special Programs which are not available for Data Mining reports. We would like all available.

    113 votes

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    9 comments  ·  Data Mining  ·  Admin →
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    In Discovery  ·  rebeccag responded

    Inquiring with customers to see which specific reporting needs are not being met for Special Programs. Looking for consistency.

    Voters: Please include details for this idea if there are specifics you are looking for! This greatly helps us evaluate if options exist or what type of change should be considered.

    Thank you!

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