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Student Management Suite

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  1. 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.

    29 votes

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. Parent absence request

    Once the parent submits the absence request and it is approved by admin or staff, the unexcused absence should automatically update, the Skyward admin should not have to manually update the unexcused to excused.

    16 votes

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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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…

    8 votes

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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. Change History

    Under Student we have the change history button could you add the Special education addition/changes to that field also so we can see who is changing the information?

    20 votes

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  18. 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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  19. 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.

    11 votes

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  20. 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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