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Student Management Suite

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  1. Please make surveys available on the mobile app for teachers.

    Please make surveys available on the mobile app for teachers.

    8 votes

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  2. auto emails for seclusion/restraint status

    I'd like seclusion and restraint status to be built into the auto email system. Reporting has become much more comprehensive, and we see merit in being able to set up an auto alert that could be sent to key stakeholders anytime a building level discipline officer entered any seclusion/restraint data.

    7 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Student  ·  Admin →
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  3. Student Locator in Data Mining

    I would love the ability to data mine students current location. This could be useful anytime someone needed to find a group of students during a specific period of the day.

    7 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Data Mining  ·  Admin →
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  4. Entity Counts

    Would like to get sub groups under Entity Counts of Student Types and ADM Types. Right now it counts all enrolled students but we look for quick prelimiary entity counts during open Membership reporting and open Pupil Enrollment reporting. These numbers are the difference between sitting in our seats and our Corp of Legal Settlement students no matter where they attend...Student Type and ADM Type sub groups would indicate the differences. The Entity Counts section is exactly the way we want to get quick preliminary numbers for these, usually twice a week during reporting.

    10 votes

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  5. Family Access Responses show Student Name/Family ID Number

    When parents use Family Access to ask a question or update a student, the response should show the Student Name or at least the Family ID #. Right now it just shows the email address of the guardian, which causes us to search all the buildings for the correct student.

    10 votes

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  6. In Family Access and Student Access separate transcripts from the portfolio area, like report cards are separate.

    We would like to use the portfolio area for registration and legal documents. But we do not always want these items displayed in family access and/or student access. But we cannot use the portfolio in this manner because this is the only area custom transcripts display. We can allow report cards to display separately, even though they are technically in the portfolio. Or another option would be to allow us to assign a type to the documents in the portfolio and then have a set up area in family access that lets us designate which types to display.

    17 votes

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  7. Renaming Standards Report Cards posted to Family Access

    When publishing a standards report card to the Portfolio tab it would be helpful to be able to rename it. We can rename the file when posting the Custom District Report Card (Office>grading>Report Cards>reports>Custom District Report Cards-CD), but not when posting a basic report card (Office>grading>report cards>reports>basic report card - BR). This customization makes it very helpful for parents to quickly see what term/year the report card is for when they view the portfolio in Skyward Family Access. Example: we rename our custom district cards (used for our middle and high school entities): "2018-2019 Term 1 Report Card." However the…

    10 votes

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  8. Alternate Teacher linked to conferences

    The ability to schedule conferences for the alternative teacher and tie the students to them.

    12 votes

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  9. Data mine Credits Earned

    Would be helpful to be able to data mine the credits earned field

    11 votes

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  10. Mail merge in message center

    It would be great if you could have merge tags that could be used to personalize messages sent through Message Center.

    12 votes

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  11. Attendance Report

    After many hours and numerous service calls to skyward found there is no report within skyward that would break out attendance by day for a range of time (monthly) and then give totals for absence codes.
    Need to run attendance data by month for administration. At this time no report will provide the "daily total" and then add up for a "monthly total" of # of students absent fpr what reasons. Reports are run by student not by day. By adding a range box to certain reports maybe able to accomplish this task.

    113 votes

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    2 comments  ·  Attendance  ·  Admin →
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  12. Area to Upload Career Portfolio Evidence

    Related to the new Pennsylvania Requirement for Career Portfolio for fifth eighth and eleventh grade students it would be nice for the teacher (non-admin user) to be able to upload a scan of the evidence. The state will be auditing this information and as opposed to maintaining paper files on each student being able to add multiple attachments to maintain the evidence.

    64 votes

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  13. Add section to Custom Transcript for Dual Credit detail

    Add a section to Custom Transcripts where you can display the detail of the Post-Secondary information for Dual Credits.

    13 votes

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  14. Home Language Survey is not available to see after NSOE is approved. ELL teacher would like to see the full survey not just the basic info

    Home Language Survey is not available to see after NSOE is approved. ELL teacher would like to see the full survey not just the basic info on the LEP tab.

    13 votes

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  15. Edit Class Meet

    Once the edic class meet window is saved and the user is returned to the course master window, give me a setting to leave the section detail open that was just edited. When working on sequential sections it is difficult to always accurately click the next section after the screens have reset. Once I am done in the course and click on the next course, section details can all close.

    12 votes

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  16. Key Pad Numbers

    Auto delete once a student withdraws or graduates.

    7 votes

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  17. Email all teachers at one time for Family Access

    Add an option to "Email Teachers" button to Family Access similar to the one that is in the Student Profile area. It would be easy for a parent to email all the teachers as a group rather than one at a time. Skyward stated this is not available but thinks a RFE would be a good idea.
    Ease of use for Family Access guest to communicate in numerous situation with all scheduled teachers at one time. Example: notification of issues with: health situations at home request for homework update on child etc.

    97 votes

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    Deferred  ·  rebeccag responded

    There is an option in the Family Access Entity Configuration area to “allow guardians to send message center messages”. If enabled, guardians can post messages to all teachers via the Wall/Home.

    If this solution will satisfy the customer need – we will void/remove this idea from the Product Ideas Portal.

  18. Ability to create letters from office visit area

    Would like to have the ability to create a letter that is populated by the information on an office visit. The letter would be a referral for physicians related to illness exclusion and readmission reminder (fever lice etc). The letter could serve as a notification to parents for example: head injury. Would like for the feature to include parent email options like the vaccination area. Work flow for nurses is to document an office visit note at the bottom of the entry that a referral was sent write/fill out the letter on paper and then send home. Would be great…

    62 votes

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  19. Add CTE Certifications to transcript.

    I currently use custom transcripts and I recently saw on a new student's transcript from a previous school a box where CTE Certifications could be listed. Since the state of Kansas recently added this to the student data they collect and this is a separate tab for a student is there a way this can be added to our transcripts? Maybe an element similar to the test box that can be selected so ACT or PSAT scores can be added. I have these already on my transcript.

    12 votes

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