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Student Management Suite

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  1. Hide Bus Stop Information from 2nd Family

    We would like to have the ability to hide bus stop information from the 2nd family. We have a custody issue that requires us to allow parent #2 to see student information, other than their address and phone number with parent #1. Through busing information, parent #2 was able to see where parent #1 and the student lived.

    1 vote

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  2. Mass add students to course/class utility needs to allow deselecting students who do not need tobe added to the target course.

    The mass add students to course/class utility needs to allow deselecting students who do not need to be added to the target course. It would save time and there would not be a need for complicated work arounds that can affect credits and gpas.

    1 vote

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  3. Student Ranges/Filtering

    Add the option to show student records of students who have been enrolled in the entity at any time during the School/ESY year, regardless if they are currently inactive.

    2 votes

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  4. Assignment score distribution reporting

    A way for a school to report on the assignment score distribution percentages by school, teacher or class. Also multiple years. So instead of just running a report on the number of F's. A report that can look for students that earned 50%-59% overall for the class. Currently the only way to look at that is by expanding the individual teacher or class in the EA+\Teacher Tracking.

    1 vote

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  5. Attendance totals by date range for grade book

    When teachers are taking their attendance and use the view of previous days it gives them a total of excused, unexcused, other and tardy absences. They are asking if I can adjust those totals so they are just for the current semester instead of the whole year. This is a problem when classes are year long. Give the teacher to adjust the total by a date range they can choose.

    5 votes

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  6. Sections of classes being able to be set up for conference not just the whole course

    It would be awesome if each section of a class can choose to be set up for allow for conferences. We have our exploratory classes set up for 2 sections, one MWF the other T, Th because we pull some kids out for specials, some kids are then in both sections using only one to do the grading. So currently when we set up the conferences both sections show for the parent, we would like for it to only pull for one section.

    1 vote

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  7. percentages

    When running the D/F list through the grading and attendance analysis, it would be great to be able to include percentages. We spend a lot of time going back into each individual student's profile to look up their percentage.

    3 votes

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  8. add Direct Admit Wisconsin to Online Registration to opt in or out

    add Direct Admit Wisconsin to Online Registration to opt in or out

    4 votes

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  9. Prorate Schedules

    It would be helpful, and time saving, to be able to clone Prorate Schedules from Current Year Schedules to the New Year Schedules, as opposed to creating each individual Prorate Schedule for each individual entity.

    2 votes

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  10. Creating a utility to mass remove student indicators

    Can a utility be created to mass remove student indicators? For example, we use the Dr. Note Required indicator when a student has reached so many absences. We then remove this indicator at the end of the year as students start fresh every school year. It would be helpful to be able to run a utility to remove them rather than go in and remove each one individually.

    2 votes

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  11. We would very much like to have the "Course Info" field avaliable to use on Custom Transcripts.

    We would very much like to have the "Course Info" field in grade history for students available for use on Custom Transcripts.

    1 vote

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  12. A report for DOE attendance data - (in attendance, 1/2 day absent, excused/unexcused absent)

    We need a report (prefer one that dumps an Excel spreadsheet) that provides the DOE attendance calculation. It would be amazing if calculation results could be stored in a table, like the Year To Date attendance.

    Without it, it is difficult to verify that the DOE has the correct attendance data and it is difficult to identify students who are close to the 94% target.

    17 votes

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  13. Mock Attachments & Manage Required Documents from NSOE to Family Access

    Currently, NSOE allows for viewing and checking off documentation uploaded through the portal. Family Access should reflect this same option, providing a link to view attachments from Online Registration and Online Forms, and provide a Manage Required Documents button to mock the same options setup for NSOE. This is imperative for districts tracking Proof of Residency, unless they want to use post-it notes or a spreadsheet outside of Skyward.

    4 votes

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  14. District and School Accountable Dropdown

    It would greatly help if the District Accountable and School Accountable fields would be drop down/lookup fields similar to the Res Dist field. It is easy to mistype the codes.
    This is similar to this request.
    https://sms.uservoice.com/forums/912337-student-management-suite/suggestions/42204106-district-code-dropdown-list

    7 votes

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  15. Special Education -Add an Event Auto Email for when an IEP or Eval is Unlocked

    It would be very helpful to have the option to add an Event Auto Email option for when an IEP or Evaluation is UNLOCKED. Currently, there is an option for when they are LOCKED but not for unlocking them. For districts that allow special ed staff the security to unlock them, it would be a great feature for a director, school psych, admin assistant, etc... to get a notification that someone has unlocked an IEP/Eval so they are aware and if needed, they can verify that there is justification for unlocking it.

    1 vote

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  16. Links to use for importer to portfolio

    Please add the state ede number to the link to use for the portfolio importer. With all the different test report we send to parent if any available link to a student was offered we could import the files. Right now the ACCESS score reports only list the MARSS number (state number) so we cannot link them.

    1 vote

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  17. Secured User History Report

    It would be helpful to have a secured user detailed history report. We have internal audits and at times are questioned by state auditors for this information. A report that can be ran by secured user and for a date range that displays detailed history accessed by that user or an option to select user defined fields of access.

    3 votes

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  18. Processing List Clean Up

    It would be helpful to have a Utility to mass delete Processing Lists by date so that we can keep old processing lists cleaned up as much as possible without have to delete them one by one.

    Something much like the Data Mining Utility to keep them cleaned up

    4 votes

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  19. Walk-In Scheduler during year to drop and add new schedule

    It would be helpful in team scheduling especially to be able to use the walk-in scheduler to drop a whole schedule and add it back into a new team without deleting the original class.

    1 vote

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  20. attendance comment field

    Expand Comments field in Attendance tab to allow for more characters
    One of our schools suggested this field be expanded to allow for 100 characters. Some attendance they can't make because of the limit in characters.

    8 votes

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