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Student Management Suite

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  1. 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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  2. 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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    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!

  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Please add a utility that will mass update the Teacher of Record in Entity Information.

    You have to manually add the Teacher of Record in the Entity Info Area.
    Please create a mass update Teacher of Record Utility.

    11 votes

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  6. Withdrawal Form

    We would like to be able to customize the student withdrawal form. We need to add some fields to the form in order for it to be useful. There are also some areas that are not pertinent.

    8 votes

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  7. While investigating a data import issue with a 3rd party data warehouse, I slowly discove With data security being an important focal point,

    While investigating a data import issue with a 3rd party data warehouse, I am slowly discovering the many ways 3rd parties can extract data from our Skyward database. With all the different ways 3rd parties can access our student data (APIs, ODBC, Scheduled Tasks, SkyBuild Exports, SIF), I'm worried about where my ignorance will get me in the event of a data breach. I am especially concerned that API access does not let us restrict or whitelist specific data fields 3rd parties have access to. It also cannot verify what data these 3rd parties are accessing.

    With data security being…

    9 votes

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  8. Add Emp. ID from Staff record to Data Mining in areas where Teacher is listed such as Schedule.

    We send the NameID or EmpID to vendors as the field to identify our teachers/staff. Recently, I needed a field that was in Data Mining. I had trouble finding it in SkyBuild so I thought I was going to have to rebuild my extract in Data Mining, I needed Emp ID (NameID) as the key for teachers but Data Mining only had Alphakey to identify the teachers/staff. We don't use that field when sending data to vendors.

    6 votes

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  9. Security to allow user to Administer Medications without being able to Add additional medications

    Our school nurses enter the medication in the Medication tab, but trained clerical and paras may administer the medication. Currently I cannot set security to allow a user to administer medication without allowing them access to add additional medication. We would like the ability to set security so only nurses can add, while trained users can administer.

    8 votes

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  10. we would like to be able to get an automated email whenever a portfolio attachment of specific types are added.

    we would like to be able to get an automated email whenever a portfolio attachment of specific types are added.

    7 votes

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  11. Add Next Eval Review Date to Section 504 Details View

    In the Section 504 Entry by Student, we would like to see the Next Eval Review Date field added as a column to Section 504 Details View. That way we can have a filter or sort on when upcoming students are needing their 504 re-evaluated by their review date. This would help administrators in knowing when to re-eval students accordnig to their Section 504 plan and not let the student's needs fall off the radar and conitnue to serve them as best as the school staff can.

    18 votes

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  12. Allow skybuild to get the newest 15 Program/Services instead of the oldest.

    We have students with more than 15 entries in their Program/Services and since Skybuild returns the oldest 15, we cannot create skybuild reports that have their current info. The pic show a student of whom we cannot get any of his current Programs and Related Services data (the ones circled in red). Please change the order so we have access to atleast the most recent 15.

    6 votes

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  13. Allow teachers access to locker combos

    Teachers can view the locker number under the profile in Educator Access Plus. They often help their students with locker issues but do not have access to the combos. Please allow a turn on/off access through security at the building level.

    10 votes

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  14. Apply credit balance upon checkout

    When a students customer account has a credit balance on it allow the parent to use this credit balance upon check out in Family Access. Currently Family Access does not do a great job with visibility of a credit balance on an account. It should show in the list of current charges/credits so that parents are reminded that the credit exists.

    10 votes

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  15. Texas - Fix years in US Schools utility

    The Years in US Schools utility has never worked correctly. Not once. We need someone to revisit the flawed programming logic behind it. This should be a simple process and it is a nightmare every year. This was not a problem in either of the prior systems we utilized. We are tired of hand-correcting student records because the utility skips them. First, the utility should allow you to update blank years with zeros before running. It does not, and then it skips records with a blank year. Second, the utility should allow you to disregard the last updated year when…

    10 votes

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    In Discovery  ·  rebeccag responded

    Inquiring with our State and Federal Compliance team about this request.

  16. Superuser for NSOE Users

    We would like a “log in as” button for NSOE users.

    39 votes

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  17. During rollover maintain the placements in IEP's and update the dates

    The placements must be able to update the placements to the new year at rollover and update the date as the first day of school and the last day of the IEP or the last day of school. We have doing those one by one by hand. I am sure there is a utility, but was afraid to run the utility.

    8 votes

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  18. NSE - Use Calendar to Validate Dates

    We would like for the calendar to be used to validate "expected enrollment date". For example, if we only have NSE turned on for Current Year, we would like for users to not be able to enter an expected enrollment date beyond the last day of school. Additionally, if we have Next Year turned on, we would like for users to not be able to enter an expected enrollment date prior to the first day of school for the next school year.

    24 votes

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  19. Electronic Application

    Make the electronic Application less confusing when it comes to loading family members into the allowed spaces. Children in the top. Adults ONLY in the bottom. Do not allow them to duplicate names! Have an option to "add" more students. We have some families who are unable to submit it electronically due to having more kids in the household then spaces on form.

    Make it so their errors are highlighted before they are allowed to move onto the next screen. Many do no see the errors listed at the top of the final page. I have tons of applications just…

    8 votes

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  20. My campuses use the Attendance Worksheet for subs to use to send in their absentees daily. The Attendance Worksheets and cutting off the na

    My campuses use the Attendance Worksheet for subs to use to send in their absentees daily. The Attendance Worksheets and cuts off the names. For those students that have two last names, it doesn't even print the first name. It is my understanding that TX SR allows for 70 characters per name (first, middle and last). That needs to be longer to allow the first name to print.

    24 votes

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