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Student Management Suite

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  1. 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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    1 comment  ·  Scheduling  ·  Admin →
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  2. 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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    1 comment  ·  Discipline  ·  Admin →
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  3. 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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    0 comments  ·  Student  ·  Admin →
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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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    10 comments  ·  Health  ·  Admin →
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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

  8. 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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    4 comments  ·  Student  ·  Admin →
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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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!

  12. Schools should be able to view the attendance record of a student from a previous school just as they can view the discipline and the grades

    The grades and discipline of the student are part of their record that follows them from building to building. However, attendance currently does not work the same way. The focus on truancy and chronic absenteeism make it mandatory to monitor for the year without having ease of access to attendance as they do the grades and discipline.

    18 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Attendance  ·  Admin →
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  13. Address Master search functionality

    Currently in Address Master you can only search by Street. We would like the functionality so that if we sort by Number that we can search by the Number by typing in the search box.

    17 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Demographics  ·  Admin →
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  14. 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.

    30 votes

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  15. Each online form emailed to a different person

    We set up a Back To School group of forms for parents to complete each year. Currently, we can only set up one person to get the email when someone completes all of the forms.
    We would like to have an email go out per form. For example, the Health History form should go to the nurse, the Transportation Needs form should go to transportation, the Acceptable Internet Use form should go to the bookkeeper, etc.

    25 votes

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  16. Mask Staff / Student SSN

    We would like for all SSN to be masked on reports. This would be staff and student SSN. We can prevent staff SSN from being viewed based on the level of security. However, the SSN will still show on reports. We would like for the number to not show (like confidential phone numbers) or at least only show the last four digits.

    16 votes

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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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