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Student Management Suite

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  1. Add RTI Interventions to Skybuild Export

    We would like the ability to export student RTI information specifically interventions with Skybuild. This will allow a teacher to enter an intervention for a specific program in EA+ and then nightly the students will be exported and populated into those systems.

    8 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Skybuild  ·  Admin →
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  2. Ability to compare the value of two fields in the And/Or Filter

    There are times when comparing the values of two similar fields would really come in handy. It would eliminate some of the additional clean-up and filtering in Excel afterwards.

    15 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Data Mining  ·  Admin →
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  3. Seamless Transfer of Grades within Entity When Student Transfers Sections/Classes

    The current 5 options process to transfer grades to a new class/section is tedious at best. Teachers do not have the time to individually select each assignment for kids when they transfer to them. When a student transfers within the same entity these grades should automatically move over or calculate with the combined grades of the new class.

    74 votes

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    4 comments  ·  Grading  ·  Admin →
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  4. CY Member

    When running the Year Start Process, if a student Status is Inactive, update CY Member to No. If this is Yes and left yes and you have a data mining or crystal report that uses CY Member, you will get inaccurate data.

    13 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Year End  ·  Admin →
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  5. Need a way to send email reminders to parents who have incompleted returning student registrations

    It is impossible to get an accurate list in data mining of parents with incomplete returning student registration (believe me, we've tried - verification status is not an accurate indicator and includes parents who are new to the district who are complete because they have completed new student enrollment). However, we need to periodically email our parents who have incomplete online returning student registration and have no reliable way to do so. We need either an accurate data mining indicator of who is required to complete online registration and has not done so, or a new automated email reminder that…

    68 votes

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  6. Expose IEP, FRL, ELL status in Clever API

    Clever has the ability to pull IEP Status, Free/Reduced Lunch Status, ELL Status but those field are not exposed on the Skyward API. If we could pass those data elements through Clever to certain applications we roster through Clever, we would be better able to effectively analyze student results and application effectiveness.

    7 votes

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  7. Add Email Column to NSOE "Enrollment Application Processing"

    There needs to be a Guardian Email column in the "Enrollment Application Processing" screen. Currently, you can only capture the email address AFTER the application has been processed. If you need to communicate to applications in a Work In Progress status, you have to open each application individually to get the email address. For example, if you have 50 applications in a WIP status and all the parent is missing is a birth certificate, you could email just those applicants about the missing BC once you export the list to Excel, perhaps.

    22 votes

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  8. Texas - CCMR module/tab needed

    Texas has added CCMR (College/Career/Military Readiness) as a criteria for our state accountability ratings. We need a CCMR module as well as a tab on the student profile that shows where each student is in meeting the state standard. Counselors use this information to help make better decisions about whether students can have off periods, whether to route them to special classes for College Prep Math or Reading, etc. The components used for CCMR all exist in Skyward - course history, PEIMS coding for industry certifications, military enlistment, and grad plan type, and test scores for ACT, SAT, AP, and…

    16 votes

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  9. days present

    It would be helpful to have a field for attendance: Total Days Possible( based on students entry date) that could be added to Custom Report Cards and Transcripts. At the end of the year/semester it would be extremely helpful to see how many days a student was absent out of a total number of days possible based on their entry date.

    7 votes

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  10. Print Students schedules from Skyward like they do from Student Acess

    Schedules print from Student and Family Access in a very easy to read format, especially for complex day rotations. We would like to see that type of schedule format available from Current Scheduling, Reports, Student Schedules. We have complex day rotations at our Middle School, especially our 6th grade classes with both Trimester, and Year Long Classes that meet different days throughout the week, sometimes one day, some times two days, sometime 6 days. The Student Access schedule lays it out in a very readable format, much better than the one available in the Current Scheduling reports. However we cannot…

    8 votes

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  11. Students Under Grade 3 Receiving OSS - Texas

    To be in compliance with TEC 37.005 (b), we would like to see a warning message when an Out of School (OSS) action code (05 or 25 for TX PEIMS) is entered for a student in a grade level below grade three.

    Such a message would serve as a reminder of this requirement for staff entering discipline records, and prevent violations of this statute.

    Thank you for your consideration.

    9 votes

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  12. Make Primary Phone Required Entry During On Line Registration

    We have families that skip the Primary Phone section. This is vital information for the school office. We would like to see that be required to be filled in before the screen can move on.

    7 votes

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  13. Renaming Existing Custom Attendance Letters without cloning

    There are times we may need to rename an existing custom attendance letter without editing the content, such as we do with report templates at times, however, the only option is to clone/rename/delete the letter that is being renamed. Can the option be added to change the name of an existing custom attendance letter as needed? AT Letter>Config>select/edit - update the name?

    7 votes

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  14. Processing Lists filters

    When creating a Processing List, be able to select "Active Students" of a particular Entity in the filter. After clicking on Add/Delete, it pulls a list of students that have ever been enrolled in the entity even if they have moved or graduated.

    14 votes

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  15. We MUST get TRACKS to post on Superintendent & Principal (Contact Hrs) Reports!!!!!!!!!!!!

    We MUST get TRACKS to post on Superintendent & Principal (Contact Hrs) Reports!!!!!!!!!!!!

    18 votes

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  16. Health Conditions to Flow to Critical Alert

    We would like the option to have Health Condition flow to the Critical Alert area in Student Profile however this option needs to be at the nurse's discretion so a button to select Show in Critical Alert would be the preference.

    103 votes

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    Deferred  ·  Jacob Baumann responded

    Thank you all for the comments and ideas! I hate to be the bearer of bad news. Upon further technical review, it has been decided we will not be moving forward with this request at this time due to the differences in records and complexity of screen and Health Condition specific security.

    Please continue to contribute your ideas — they push us to innovate, problem solve, and really understand your needs.

    Thank you!
    Jacob

  17. Online Registration Set Up-Student Information

    Please add an option to Auto-approve the Home Phone under student information. I don't think it makes sense that the parent can have a name change auto-approve, but the home phone cannot.

    We would never want anyone to change the child's name, but do not mind them changing the home phone.

    29 votes

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  18. Add options for the zip code

    We now have more than one area by us where 1 zip code covers 2 municipality names. We are currently adding an A behind the number but that has caused issues with parents changing it during online registration and now being incorrect. Can we have 1 zip code have more than one city attached to it so the parent and our staff can choose the correct city name attached.

    7 votes

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  19. Year End

    It would be great to have one place to put in the calendar with holidays, begin and end terms, etc. and have it filter to any other area it needs to be.

    34 votes

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  20. Pin number

    When running Class roster report, it would be nice to have the ability to add the student's pin number as an available option. Secretaries like to give the teachers, especially at the elementary levels, the students' pin numbers, as well as some of the other indicators that are already available to select in the Detail area. WS/OF/CS/RE/CR/CR

    7 votes

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    Great suggestion! While not directly on the Class Roster report run from Office, the student’s pin number could be something you enable teachers to run on their own class rosters from their gradebooks.

    Within the Educator Access Plus District Setup (WS\EA\PS\CF\DS), you can enable the option to “Allow Teachers to display Student’s Food Service Key Pad # on Class Roster.” With this set, when the teacher adds or modifies a template for the Class Roster report (from the Reports menu on the main screen of a gradebook), they will see a check box that allows them to print this information.

    Our Customer Consultant Specialists would be able to assist with any questions on these options. Thank you!

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