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  1. Attendance report showing a list of the day's attendance in the Skyward Mobile App

    It would be great if we could access the attendance "entry by date" section through the Skyward App, or access to any other report that shows attendance for that given day. This came about while we were doing an Intruder Drill, and I was asked to account for any kids that were known absent today. I tried to do it by memory, but it would be really handy if I could pull a report on my phone to know for sure in case of an emergency where we have to evacuate the building.

    7 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Attendance  ·  Admin →
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  2. PA - Start using separate enrollment transaction dates and enrollment dates

    In PA, our enrollment template asks us to report separate enrollment transaction dates (the date the student was entered in the SIS) and the enrollment date (the first date the student physically showed up to attend school). Skyward does not provide a way to enter or store a separate transaction date. It forces us to use only the enrollment date as both the transaction date and the enrollment date. This is very problematic because we must enter students into the system days before the student actually attends school. We need both dates. We can't keep flipping dates (tracking them manually…

    20 votes

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  3. Parent Contact Log

    Our counselors and administrators would like to have a parent contact log that shows the date, who contacted, contact type code and a reason note. This would just be a simple way to see when a parent was contacted and the reason. Currently, we are going to create this in a custom form but it would be better if it was part of the actual Skyward system.

    6 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Family  ·  Admin →
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  4. Career Plan - Additional options requested when printing the student career plan

    Would it be possible to have additional options when printing the Student Career Plan:
    1. Please include Counselors’ Name and Student ID to print at the top, just as the student name, alphakey, etc.
    2. Can the Declared Endorsement & Pathway be listed on the career plan report, up on the top of the page by the student name?
    3. Please allow to also sort by Subject Code when printing the career plan.
    4. Can we add to print “Course Type” that way we can see if the course was earned as DC, Summer School, Credit by Exam, Honors, AP…

    9 votes

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  5. Develop Skyward to have the same communication capability with parents that Remind has.

    Teachers need to communicate with parents and have to copy Skyward demo data into Remind. Could Skyward develop the same type of communication tool for teachers?

    11 votes

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  6. Custom Forms Table

    When adding a table to Custom Forms, it would be beneficial to be able to resize the columns. Currently the columns are nearly impossible to resize.

    7 votes

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  7. Ability to change "Online Forms" label in Family/Student Access

    We use our Online Forms for our Co-Curricular and Athletic forms that students have to complete each year. Student's and Parents get confused and either fill out the Online Forms instead of the Online Registration or they complain that they can't find the forms. If we had the ability to rename this label in Family/Student Access like we can for Online Registration and New Student Online Enrollment I think it would be less confusing for parents/students.

    13 votes

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  8. Deleting data from custom forms.

    We need a utility that deletes data from all Custom Forms for every new school year instead of cloning the custom forms. Cloning a custom form can break any process that feeds from these forms.

    11 votes

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  9. Capability to give teachers access in their gradebooks to Physicals tab in Student Profile

    It would be extremely helpful if teachers could have the capability of having access to the Physicals tab in Student Profile from their gradebooks. This would be so coaches could have access to their scanned physicals. We know this is already an option for the Student Portfolio, but the problem is that we have scans in this area that they cannot legally see due to FERPA and HIPAA.

    8 votes

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    2 comments  ·  Gradebook  ·  Admin →
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  10. Educator Access Plus Secondary Gradebook Reports

    It would be great if we could run the reports in educator access plus under the secondary gradebook for past years and not just the current year. If there is a question on a grade for the transcript on a previous year, we have to log in as the teacher to access it. And if the teacher left the district, we have to make them active, log in and then make them inactive.

    9 votes

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  11. transaction

    It would be nice if the default scheduling transaction effective date in Skyward would populate as the next calendar day instead of the next scheduled day of school when dropping a student. Having it be the next scheduled day of school causes problems with SCAs and exiting a student. It seem counterintuitive for a user to have to change a date that Skyward autopopulates.

    20 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Enrollment  ·  Admin →
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  12. TX - Curriculum Master - Mass Copy Curriculum Master Information Utility

    Please add the following to the Texas state specific fields to be updated area in the mass copy curriculum master information utility:
    Transcript Area
    Voc Ed Contact Hours
    College Credit Hours

    Currently the only option is service id, but many times updates are needed with these other fields. This would assist districts with updating courses over multiple years (such as current & future) for multiple campuses.

    8 votes

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    3 comments  ·  Curriculum  ·  Admin →
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  13. Add SCHOOL NURSE as System Contact Selection in the Automated Email Maintenance area.

    Add SCHOOL NURSE as System Contact Selection in the Automated Email Maintenance area.

    7 votes

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  14. 9 votes

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  15. Add Overwrite option for Tardy Kiosk under Absence Type Codes

    Our time saved in writing passes and tracking late arrivals with the addition of the Tardy Kiosk has been significant. The time added by cleaning up excused absences that Kiosk has overridden has unfortunately replaced that saved time. We are having to review the entries several times a day.

    Absence Type Codes currently have the config option to "Allow overwrite by Positive Attendance". Adding an option for "Do not allow overwrite by Tardy Kiosk" would allow us to mark our Excused and Exempt types, eliminating our constant review of entries.

    19 votes

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  16. Custom Forms /Ability to post Custom Forms to the portfolio

    We currently have many Custom Forms that we would like the option to place into the portfolio (ex Customized Progress Report)

    18 votes

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  17. Make Default Entity match Cafeteria

    It would be helpful if the students default entity could match their cafeteria. with a school district of 6500 students, every time a student moves from one school to another, their cafeteria has to be manually changed. This is impossible to keep track of.

    26 votes

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  18. NY registration and NY Grad Year Fee's

    When registering for NY, within the CY, the system should look at which year the application is being processed and apply those grad year fee's. Currently, the system only looks at the CY grad year fee's, which are different for our NY fee's, and applies CY grad year fee's for an application that has been approved for NY.

    This is not work around this except running a mass add fee daily and since this is a processing utility, it can not be scheduled. I have to physically go into 10 schools each day, re-create the ranges and set up the…

    7 votes

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  19. OneRoster export and OneRoster api student username options

    Please add the ability to choose which field is sent in the OneRoster Export within Skybuild for the student's username and the ability to add a prefix to that field.

    It currently exports the student's alphakey, but our district typically uses the student's other id for other software companies, since it doesn't change with a name change like the alphakey.

    For some companies, we use a combination of the otherid and a letter/number combo such as D87 in front of the student id number.

    Other districts use the student's state id number.

    Having the ability to customize which field is…

    6 votes

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  20. Elementary A/B Honor Roll Report

    Elementary does not use GPA. It would be great if there was a report showing which students have all A's or B's in the core subjects (could prompt for course #'s?). Using the selected grades report now, but if the student has 1 A in 1 subject he will appear on the report and that would not qualify him as a A or B honor roll student.

    10 votes

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