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Student Management Suite

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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 8 votes

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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. Automated email - Current Year Schedule Changes - Class Is Dropped

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    Current Year Schedule Changes - Class Is Dropped Automated Email, add the ability to select specific courses to trigger email to specific staff. More specifically we would like an email to go to our bookstore manager when a student drops a course that has a course fee attached.

    7 votes

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  10. Proc List Individual selections

    There are times when a proc list needs to be created manually. When you go to the add names area - please make it so you can filter. Active/Inactive at the very least would cut down on the number of entries needed to search through, adding grades filters would help as well.

    14 votes

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  11. Add Date and Expiration Option to Critical Alert Messages

    Everyone uses the Critical Alert field for much more than health options. The flag is nice and the option to have it pop-up to display. Our district especially uses this for parent issues, legal issues and much more. The problem is, that over time these messages are terribly outdated as a student's career progresses at a district. There should be a date field entered that includes a start/end date with an option to have the Critical Alert expire! Then it will auto-turn off the message when the user so desires to have it do so. If they want to leave…

    15 votes

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  12. Could there be a widget on staff dashboards that shows their lunch balances?

    Could there be a widget on staff dashboards that shows their lunch balances? Unless staff have their own children in school, they cannot see what their lunch balance is.

    18 votes

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  13. Need ability to default for new families check boxes for Receive Report Cards, Print Hard Copy Report Cards and Receive Forms.

    Need ability to default for new families check boxes for Receive Report Cards, Print Hard Copy Report Cards and Receive Forms.

    We can do so for custodial and pickup, but not for the report card stuff.

    We spend lots of time double checking why someone didn't get a mailing or a report card due to a box being left unchecked by accident.

    I know there are mass assign options, but we want the Receive Hard Copy of report cards to be blank to begin with and parents can change within online registration if they really want a copy mailed to…

    8 votes

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  14. Notes

    Each year, after system rollover, each user has to enter gen notes > filter > make changes > apply. This must be done in order to view previous years notes. We use the notes sections for important information and it is very inconvenient for each staff member to have to perform this process.

    Can an enhancement be created so that all notes roll with the system automatically for users to view without having to perform the above process?

    7 votes

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  15. Delete a Parent from Family and Emergency Tabs at the Same Time

    Currently, when deleting a parent from a Family when a parent passes away, Skyward does not delete that parent from the Emergency Contact tab. It's very troubling to me when I forget to remove a parent from the emergency tab who has passed away even though I did remove them from the Family tab.

    14 votes

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  16. Local Race

    Get rid of Local Race all together (Profile > General Information). This is causing lots of confusion on campuses as to which one to use. We are not updating Local Race. In the process, Skyward needs to change the Auto Scheduler programming to use Federal Race instead of Local Race. As far as I know, that's the only program that is still using local race. Also, since this is "federal", this should affect all states, not just Texas.

    16 votes

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  17. Add Other ID to every report so that vertical lookups within Excel would be much easier

    Add Other ID to every report so that vertical lookups within Excel would be much easier

    17 votes

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  18. Mail Merge Data Mining into an Email

    It would be excellent if we were able to mail merge our data mining into an email home to parents. Right now it will only allow you to mail merge it into a template that must be printed. It would save the districts a lot of postage and man hours spent stuffing envelopes.

    22 votes

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  19. Future withdraw

    It would be most helpful if we could enter a future withdraw date for a student, make all of the selections/choices that are presented (like current/next year status changes, schedule drops, etc.), then have a process trigger the withdraw in the evening of the withdraw date.

    Currently, we cannot properly complete a future withdraw because there are handy options that are available during the withdraw process.

    55 votes

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  20. Automated Email for Student Language field to notify ELL

    Provide an auto-email option that looks at the Student Language field. If the student language field is something other than English, provide the ability to create an auto-email so that the staff in Special Services can evaluate the need for English Language Learner services.

    19 votes

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