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Student Management Suite

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  1. message center ranges

    Please add Next Year status as one of the range options when using Message Center by Range. This is helpful so that we don't send messages about next year information when we already know they will not be attending the district next school year. I know we can create a processing list and do it that way, but that is way more cumbersome for the end user.

    11 votes

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  2. Dropped Courses with Course Fees Report

    We need a report that will show us only students who have Course Fees in Fee Management with no corresponding course. Currently the report we are running is under Administration > Fee Management > Reports > Customers with Dropped Courses Report. While it is nice to have this report it is pretty much useless in helping us quickly catch any course fees that still exist for classes that were dropped and this is because it displays every dropped course even if the student just moved sections of the course, so we still have to look at every student individually that…

    9 votes

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  3. message center

    Message Center Alerts

    When a family posts a message to a teacher(s), alert the teacher via email. Or have the option to email the teacher directly through Family Access. Teachers are missing messages from the message center because they are not aware a parent sent them.

    28 votes

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  4. family access bill codes

    When creating a bill code that you would like to have posted on Family Access there would be a check box right on the bill code set up screen to do this, rather than have to go into the family access set up tab and recreate the bill code.

    6 votes

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  5. NSOE - Report showing applications that have been started but NOT submitted

    We have parents that started an application in NSOE and thought they submitted it but it was not. We would like a report that will show applications that have been started but are not finished and submitted.

    18 votes

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  6. Message Center

    It would be extremely convenient and helpful if, when creating a message in the Message Center to send a "test message" to just the person who is creating the message prior to sending it out to students and/or families? It would be a nice feature to be able to "test" the message by sending it to oneself to make sure it is set up correctly prior to sending to students and families. Thank you!

    17 votes

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  7. Student Management Configuration Pop-up Alert for Parental Consent Notes

    In the Product Setup, Skyward Customer Access, Student Management area, you can set the configuration to turn on a Pop-up for Critical Alerts. We would like to see a Pop-up for Parental Consent Notes as well. We have many Critical Alerts, so it becomes unwieldy to add the Parental Consents as Critical Alerts, to use that functionality. Too many pop-ups are annoying. But a separate Parental Consent pop-up would make sure staff knew if a custody issue existed when parents are picking up their students.

    15 votes

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  8. The ability to categorize reports and search within Data mining

    It would help to find reports in data mining if we could apply one of more categories (Grades, GPA, Discipline, Demographics, ect..) to individual reports. Also, the ability to search by either a category or key word in a report title.

    28 votes

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  9. Perfect Attendance Report

    A report set up for perfect attendance

    16 votes

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    2 comments  ·  Attendance  ·  Admin →
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  10. Mobile App Language translation

    It would be helpful if there were an option in the mobile app to select for language translation for the individuals who do not read English and do not have access to a desktop device.

    10 votes

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  11. Apply earned credit before planned credit to grad requirements

    We are having issues with the configuration of the grad requirements module. Skyward is not considering earned credit before planned credit. Problem>
    We have a student with 4 courses that meet a graduation requirement.
    2 are earned credit and 2 are planned credit. When we change from the default to the school year configuration, in both cases, 1 earned and 1 planned credit are applied instead of 2 earned. Both configurations list earned credit as the 5th criteria considered out of 8 criteria. Any counselor in our district would tell you that earned credit will always trump planned credit when…

    12 votes

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  12. attendance letters - excluding individual students

    When creating 5 and 10 day attendance letters... is there a way to exclude individual students from generating a letter? For example we have a few students that are on the attendance letter list that have known issues that would make it to where they should not get an attendance 5 or 10 day letter. We have a kiddo at the burn center that is absent but the medical paperwork has not come in yet. Until then when we run the letters they would be on the list. We do not want to have to hand pull the letters that…

    17 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Attendance  ·  Admin →
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  13. attendance letter clone

    In the attendance letter setup - it would be great to have a clone button. Many attendance letters that get scheduled get scheduled either multiple times (each semester or quarter) or for different thresholds (5, 10, 15, etc).

    Knowing it is setup correctly and just needing to change the name, threshold or timeframe would make this area much more friendly to use. Lisa

    26 votes

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  14. Student Graduation Date Mass Create/Change Utility - Use Processing List

    We have different groups of students that will graduate on different dates. It would be helpful if we could run this utility using a processing list.

    11 votes

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  15. Ability to have mandatory online form at first login.

    Getting parents to fill out emergency forms, computer acceptable use policies, etc. is burdensome. Other sites on the web make you click to accept their policies before entering the site. It would be a huge help to be able to require our parents to complete the forms prior to entering Skyward for the first time during the school year and for those forms to "pop up" on the screen so they wouldn't have to navigate through Skyward to find them.

    30 votes

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  16. Headcount By Grade, Race, Gender and Socioeconomic Status - Add "Today" date option

    Please add a date option to run for "Today" so that this report can be scheduled to run daily and report today's enrollment count.

    15 votes

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  17. 8 votes

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    2 comments  ·  Family  ·  Admin →
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  18. RTI Referral Report - Advanced Custom Form

    Teachers have the ability to print RTI Referral Reports and include custom forms that were part of the process. When they print the Referral Report and include custom forms, the custom forms print in HTML format. The result is a very long list of fields that wastes a lot of paper.

    Please allow the Advanced Custom Form to print as it was designed so that teachers can view the information in the same manner in which it was entered.

    11 votes

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  19. Report that shows students new to the district

    Every year our schools asked for a report on students that are brand new to not only there school but the district. It would be great to have one that can easily be ran.

    25 votes

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  20. Display Next Year Schedules - Options

    Hello:

    In working with our schools specifically in setting up the On-Line Registration, the question has come up is if there is a way to display Next Year Schedules ONLY AFTER FEES have been PAID? In the past we have utilized the option in the FA Entity Set Up to check the box that reads: Only Show Schedule After Online Registration Completed however this does not ensure that fees have been paid. Also we have noted the Option at the bottom of the screen to HIDE Next Year Schedule for Selected Students HOWEVER it would be extremely convenient if there…

    9 votes

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