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Student Management Suite

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  1. Stop Ala Carte Purchase option enabled by parents on Skyward Family Access

    This is a great option, however, the message is confusing in POS. Instead of saying " A Permanent Stop Purchase option is set for STUDENT NAME," can it read "A Permanent Stop Ala Carte Purchase option is set for STUDENT NAME?

    8 votes

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  2. Student indicator for ESL Monitored

    Please create a Student Indicator for students that were ESL and are now in the monitored phase.

    41 votes

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    3 comments  ·  Student  ·  Admin →
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  3. Request Changes for Student/Family Information on Mobile App

    We live in a "Mobile" world...
    Parents are able to request changes to student, family address, family information, emergency contacts, etc. on their web-based Family Access account. Many of our families do not have a computer and use the Skyward mobile app to see their student's information. We would like for parents to have the option to request changes to information from the mobile app.

    12 votes

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  4. allow attachments to emails from family view of student profile.

    I need to send an email (with an attachment) to an individual students parent. you can send an email to a parent from the family tab of the student profile but there is no Attach option. as a non teacher without a grade book i would need to use the advanced features Message center and then create a processing list with one student in order to send an email to a guardian with an attachment.

    6 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Student  ·  Admin →
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  5. EMERGENCY ALERTS IN TEACHERS WIDGETS

    Right now teachers can not see emergency alerts flags in their Educator Access Plus homepage(Widgets) where all their students are listed.
    In order to see an Emergency alert, they need to go to their grade book and there they can see the emergency flag for a particular student.
    It would be great if the emergency alerts are populated in the Widgets and My Students area as well. It would be very easy for the teacher to identify the flagged students without having to enter each student profile to find out.

    10 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Gradebook  ·  Admin →
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  6. Increase the Font size on the Vaccination Report for faxes

    The font on the Vaccination Report needs to be larger so it is legible when faxed to other schools. Now it cannot be read in a fax because the font is too small. If necessary to accommodate a larger font, it can be made landscape instead of portrait.

    8 votes

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  7. Add a button within Field Selection that would allow a newly added field to be moved to the top.

    This is a qualify of life request but I would love to have a button added to the Field Select screen which would give the option to move a newly added field all the way to the top. Many times when I'm working with a complex data mining field, I find myself clicking the UP button over and over and over and over to move the field where I need it. Having a TOP button would save many clicks/time.

    14 votes

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  8. Please create a Student Indicator for Dyslexia. Now that Dyslexia is being reported in PEIMS, the indicator would be very helpful.

    Please create a Student Indicator for Dyslexia. Now that Dyslexia is being reported in PEIMS, the indicator would be very helpful.

    29 votes

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    2 comments  ·  Student  ·  Admin →
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  9. Allow parents to customize their food service low balance notifications

    Parents should have the ability to customize food service low balance alerts in Family access.
    Currently this is controlled by checking a box to allow guardians to subscribe to food service low balance notifications in District User Settings, and then entering an amount for the low balance. We would instead like this low balance amount to be moved to Family access, so that when a parent checks the box to subscribe to the low balance notifications, they can also choose a custom amount for the low balance.

    36 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Food Service  ·  Admin →
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  10. Open Gradebook for Specific Teachers

    After grades are posted, we often have students who were unable to complete the final on time. When they do complete it, I have to open the entire gradebook so they can put it in and have the grade recalculate. It would be nice if we could open it for just those teachers. Doing it for every teacher creates a lot of opening and closing.

    13 votes

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    4 comments  ·  Grading  ·  Admin →
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  11. Mass Print Registration Information After Approval

    This is actually for New and Returning Student Enrollment. We would like the ability to mass print the required forms/information for students' Cumulative folders after approving registrations. Much like batching, if a campus approves multiple enrollments for that day or week, they need to be able to easily print out those forms from registrations that have been approved. Right now, they have to either build a processing list to use with the Custom Forms/Student Information Report area, or manually add names that they need within the Reports area. It would be much more proficient to have the ability to print…

    15 votes

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  12. ADA Report by Economic or Special Program Populations

    I have a request for an ADA report by Economic Status, can this be added and other special populations/programs as well?

    34 votes

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  13. Under online registration, student information, says home email, can it say student home email. Parents keep putting their email in .

    Under online registration, student information, says home email, can it say student home email. Parents keep putting their email in and that is where the student's home email is. Then when parents go to the parent section, they don't update their email because they put it under the student information by mistake.

    28 votes

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  14. Missing Assignment Report by student.

    We would like to print a report in Student Management that shows all missing assignments in all classes by student. With or without a description & teacher. For example, we would like to know how many students have 10 or more missing assignments.

    10 votes

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    2 comments  ·  Reporting  ·  Admin →
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  15. Tardy Kiosk and In/Out minutes for state of IL

    The check in times on the Tardy kiosk are not saved in the same place as the in/out minutes used for IL state ADA reporting. I know the state has changed lots of attendance requirements, but many districts are continuing with the ADA standards for attendance.

    Since these are 2 different fields, it still requires staff to go into each student's record to input the check in time.

    If there could be an option to have the tardy kiosk check in times tied to the in/out minutes for IL state reporting, I think more districts would use it.

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    8 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Attendance  ·  Admin →
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  16. Open and close time period conferences in family access

    It would be great in family access configuration to have a way to set time period open and close for when guardians can sign up for conferences.

    14 votes

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  17. Discipline

    I would like to see a place in discipline coding for Office of Civil Rights discipline coding. Our setup is for state reporting and OCR is much more detailed than what we have setup.

    22 votes

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  18. Custom Report Card Colors and background

    Currently there are no options for changing the colors used for shading in the custom report cards. Report cards could be improved if shading is allowed in more than one color and options to change color with RGB code or HEXA-Decimal code. I would like to see changing colors / backgrounds option of any boxes / object in custom report cards.

    11 votes

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  19. Fee Managment Balance and Total of OUtstanding Textbooks

    Would it be possible to add the dollar amount of outstanding fees as well as any textbooks the student has assigned under the ENTRY/WITHDRAWAL tab? This will alert the campus registrar and facilitate access that data within the same location (entry/with tab) and will enforce to zero out any fees and return textbooks before withdrawing the student.

    6 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Enrollment  ·  Admin →
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  20. Add Check Mark & Completed Date/Time for Step 2 of Online Form Process

    Adding a check mark and the completed date and time to step 2 of the online form process would be instrumental in reducing parent confusion.

    6 votes

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