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Student Management Suite

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  1. Space to add more than 5 locker combs

    Space to add more locker combs. We have locks for lockers that have 7-8 combs. Currently Skyward only allows 5 combs to be entered so we have to skip the combs that we can not enter into the system.

    1 vote

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  2. In the admin side of message center, it would be helpful for the office staff to

    be able to drill down into teachers classes directly to send information out to specific students so the information could be posted on specific students. We would like to be able to email and post this information without having to do processing lists each time we want to do this. At this point you can send the information to the entire class but cannot send to specific students. We are trying to automate a process and this would speed things up if they could select only the specific students and contact them both by messenger and email at the same…

    2 votes

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  3. Default Date for Parent Entered Requests

    It would be helpful to have the date field in the Parent Entered Requests screen to not default to the calendar day minus 7 days. We have several parents who are putting in requests many weeks ahead of time and we are not seeing those because the date is only a week back. It would be great if we could set it to the first day of school or a date of our choosing.

    2 votes

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  4. Option to add Outstanding Fee(s) to the custom report card

    Option to add Outstanding Fee(s) to the custom report card. This option is already available on the regular report card but not on the custom report card, so this should not be a very difficult PR.

    2 votes

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  5. "daily register"

    on the DAILY REGISTER and also on the Voc Ed Contact Hours Utility, add RANGES as a way to exclude classes ... and also add a way to add the begin / end dates without entering each one .......... our DAEP is a program (not its own campus) and I have to exclude our DAEP sections for CTE classes i.e. no contact hours for these sections and we have two large high schools and it is SOOO PAINFUL to set this up in these two areas ... and eventually I had to stop running it under 000 because the system…

    10 votes

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  6. Adding a parent / guardian name next to the home phone number when printing the field trip roster.

    We just started using the Field Trip Master this year for scheduling our field trips. When we print the roster for the field trips, it includes the home phone number, but does not include the parent or guardian's name next to the number. The emergency contacts show the name and the phone number, so I am hoping that a primary guardian name could be added as well to the report. This would help to know who we are contacting at the home number.

    2 votes

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  7. alternate student name

    Is it possible to have a space for a student's preferred name and run reports using the preferred name? We have several students using different names than their birth name in Skyward and it would be amazing if we can see their preferred name so we are not dead naming them.

    3 votes

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  8. Search by legal name

    It would be great if we could search for a student by either their legal name OR other name and have it show up without having to go into Student Filters.

    Sometimes it is hard to remember which is the legal vs other OR if a student even has a different legal name that we need to be looking up by.

    3 votes

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  9. Attendance Labels on Standards Basic Report Card

    Need the ability to rename the "Excused" and "Unexcused" labels on the attendance summary within the Standards Basic Report Card area. Right now it is hard coded and we need the ability to rename Excused/Unexcused labels. For our district we want to reflect Funded/Unfunded instead.

    2 votes

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  10. Discipline Graphs should Accurately Report data for Prior Year

    When running the Discipline Graph by Offense for a prior year and doing breakdown by grade it shows grades as (10,11,12,GD) instead of 09,10,11,12. I should be able to see the grade they were in during the timeframe selected not the grade they are in now. See attachment for what is returned in discipline graph vs discipline counts report. Originally submitted as a support ticket: 5945079

    2 votes

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  11. CRDC - sport - team

    I'm guessing activities are primarily set up so coaches can communicate with the athletes. It would be helpful if there was a Sport dropdown where we could select the sport that the activity is tied to.
    Then Skyward could program how many are in that sport as well as how many are in each team.

    16 votes

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  12. Improving Access to Custom Forms in the Skyward Mobile App

    Many parents have expressed interest in being able to access custom forms directly through the Skyward mobile app. The technology department gets numerous calls and support requests from parents stating they are unable to locate the custom forms. If integrating custom forms into the app is not feasible, an alternative solution could be to add a "Custom Forms" button or link within the app. This "Button" would redirect parents to access those forms through their web browser. This would provide parents a more convenient way to access any necessary custom forms, even if they cannot be directly integrated into the…

    6 votes

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  13. Transportation

    It would be nice to have the function to MASS add/update Transport records based on Transportation category. Right now we can only MASS end records but need to manually touch everyone to add back in. Example add new record for walkers 00 with x date. OR have the ability to only end records for example Transportation category "riders". The all or nothing category is not the best way to manage these records.

    5 votes

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  14. Show weighted and unweighted GPA

    In the GPA summary section of a student profile, we would like to see an unweighted GPA as well as the weighted GPA that we use. Many students need an unweighted GPA for scholarship or college applications and it must be figured out manually which is time-consuming and leaves room for errors.

    2 votes

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  15. Have a setting in security to allow access only to active students

    We have some employee types, such as paras, that need limited information for students. We would like to be able to limit this access to Active students only. There is no need to see all students that ever attended that entity.

    2 votes

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  16. busing

    In busing, we would like to see a mass add start and end date. This would allow us to set up routes for the upcoming school year, and keep past records for reporting purposes.

    3 votes

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  17. Have the ability for parents to select who is the primary person/contact in the male be listed first in the family contact screen.

    Families should have the ability to select who the primary person is in the household to receive various emails. Sometimes only the person listed first in the family receives documents, but the secondary does not.  Would be nice to have the ability to select who the primary person is for each task. For example. food service low balance alerts, grades, discipline, unpaid invoices, ect.

    3 votes

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  18. Latitude and Longitude

    Is there way to get latitude and longitude for student addresses? We are wanting to see re-zoning would affect the schools in our district. Using latitude and longitude would allow us to attach students to those addresses and look at the over all picture such as discipline, attendance, and etc.

    1 vote

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  19. Sticky Notes

    It would be extremely beneficial (almost critical at times) to have a "sticky note" option in Students - Students Profile. Have an icon that resembles a notepad / sticky note pad that would allow you to create a personal individualized "note" on a selected students profile. The note would be only for you to see and is not part of the student record. The note would only be linked to one student. The note instantly opens every time you enter that students profile, until you decide to delete it. You can also add or delete the text in the open…

    4 votes

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  20. online form

    We have created an Online Form for parents to fill out requesting a school transfer.

    We have selected that Family 1 only have the option to update the form. When the Family 1 completes the online transfer request form, it sends an email to both guardians in Family 1.

    Is there a way also have an email sent out to Family 2 (additional families) when Family 1 submits the transfer request online form?

    When the custodial parents are not in the same Family, they would like the email go to both Family 1 and Family 2. It would also be…

    1 vote

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