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Student Management Suite

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  1. Share Option in Data Mining

    Would be nice if Data mining reports had a sharing option like other report templates have. As not everyone needs to see all datamining templates being utilized. Some templates are created for just 1 person to use as needed but other users don't need access to same template or information within that template.
    The creator would have the option to either share the template for everyone to see it the way it looks now or not share the template.

    17 votes

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  2. Display Idaho State ID's in Family/Student Access

    Would it be possible to have the option to display Idaho state EDUIDs in Family/Guardian Access? We have a request from counselors that students applying for certain things need their state ID's.

    53 votes

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  3. Email teachers/staff about notifications

    We have teachers/staff who don't notice the little yellow (!) notification/alert icon. We do know that they check their email on a regular basis.
    Is there a way that emails can be sent notifying them of notifications/alert and inform them what the notification contains?
    It doesn't have to be an immediate email but at most twice a day. Or set for customizable times of the day multiple times a day.
    Just would like to get teachers and other staff to notice that they have a notification/alert.

    38 votes

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  4. Configuration Setting Needed for Long/Short Names

    When adding Staff it would be useful having default configuration setting for long and short name. Presently when adding a new staff member Skyward auto-populates the long and short name with the Last Name of the new staff member i.e. Washington. We would like to have the option to configure for example the Long name as Last Name First Initial i.e. Washington G. Also the limit of 10 and 20 characters for the short and long name is not enough. There are many employees that have hyphenated names that are much longer than 20 characters.

    6 votes

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  5. Lunch Calendar characters

    Currently we want to move to using the Lunch menu in Skyward but cannot because the calendar view does not support enough characters for us display the entire lunch so it can be viewed with clicking on it and printed
    Add more characters to the lunch calendar in the web access for Parents to view the menu. Make the menu printable so parents can view the lunches for the entire month.

    54 votes

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  6. User Defined Online Enrollment Report

    It would be extremely helpful to be able to pull the family contact email address as one of the fields to Select to print in the User Defined Online Enrollment Report. Right now I can only pull family address and phone and majority of our communications are sent via email address.

    12 votes

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  7. Have multiple tardy kiosks options

    I would like to have the option to have a late arrival and early release tardy kiosk in addition to a Truly Tardy option. This would allow us to streamline operations during attendance taking at our highschool. We would like the ability for students coming in late to school to check themselves into the building. In addition the late arrival kids that are scheduled to be out of the building during the first 2 periods need to check into the building so we know that they arrived in school. Then it would be nice for the students that are on…

    7 votes

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  8. More Space for Customize Bar in Student's Profile

    The customizable area that stays on the top of each of student's screen is very helpful to users to quickly see information useful to them. It would be helpful to add the Team information to this area so that those that use Teaming could quickly see what team the student is on since many times that guides schedule times lunches (that are not put on schedules) and other matters in the building. Without this information available we've been attempting to use the student indicators however those are not easy to populate and keep populated correctly and we do not have…

    84 votes

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  9. Ability to Clone CF from Entity to Entity

    It would be more efficient for customers to be able to create a CF n one entity then clone it to other entities. Customers just starting to use CF are daunted by the task of having to create each form for each entity.

    Any system fields in use would remain the same except for the entity designation. Any test/memo free-form fields would need to be created in the corresponding tables in the target entity.

    10 votes

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  10. Add In/Out Times to Entry by Date Screen

    Recently our staff have started to use the In/Out Minutes option for Attendance. They would love to be able to see that information on the Entry By Date screen without having to completely open up the student record. Is this something that can be added to that view?

    31 votes

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  11. View Course Long Description

    We would like the option to view the course long description in the course master. Our schools like this course name better than the short description.

    Either always see the long description or have a filter option to show the course long description.

    9 votes

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  12. additional hearing merge fields

    Texas state hearing screening laws require that students who fail their first hearing screening are rescreened. Please add additional hearing merge fields so that the hearing letters accurately print all of the screening results.
    See Texas hearing screening form M-40 http://www.dshs.texas.gov/vhs/require.shtm

    Additional hearing letter merge fields:

    --Rescreening Date (2nd screening when "rescreen" box is checked)

    --Rescreening entry Threshhold table

    --Rescreening entry Combined Results

    34 votes

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  13. vision letter merge field additions

    Need Vision Letter Merge Fields for:

    --automated screening device

    --Need Merge Field for Rescreening Date (2nd screening when "rescreen" box is checked)

    --Need Merge Fields for Corrected Right and Corrected Left on Rescreening entry

    --Need Merge Fields for Uncorrected Right and Uncorrected Left on Rescreening Entry

    See state's vision screening form M-60 http://www.dshs.texas.gov/vhs/require.shtm

    Texas passed law in 2015 and expanded it in 2017 allowing students to be screened with an automated screening device. There is no Merge Field for a Vision Letter to indicate that the child was screened with an Automated Screening Device. The state requires that referral letters…

    34 votes

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  14. School Path to show in Family Access

    We have rezoned twice now and it is a major issue when parents do not know what campus their child needs to go to. Is it possible to add the school path/NY school path to show in the student info in family access? If parents could see their school path/NY school path it would help the confusion and all the phone calls and letters to parents.

    7 votes

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  15. Link the Counselor Automatically f/Entity Screen

    The goal is to automatically link the counselor's name that is on the entity screen to the Counselor column in the Guidance "Entry By Date" screen when a student puts in a request to see the counselor. With this enhancement the counselors will be able to see who their student is immediately instead of trying to figure it out. We have a large HS and it takes time. With this enhancement it would save counselors a good amount of time of thumbing through students trying to figure out which ones belongs to them and more time spent on the students…

    17 votes

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  16. Add Skylert to the Mobile App

    The goal of this RFE is to allow parents to update their Skylert information (especially to enter "Text Message" numbers)via the Skyward Mobile App. They currently have to do so via the web version of Family Access.

    Like many Skyward school districts we use School Messenger for our mass communication system (phone/email/SMS/CustomMobileApp/SocialMedia) and we deploy the Skylert Interface in Skyward so that parents can use their Family Access account to enter/update additional contact information especially Text Message numbers - By entering the Text Message numbers in Family Access/Skylert parents are opting in for text messages to be sent to them…

    9 votes

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  17. Attaching Document to Teacher Email

    Testing Coordinator among others is needing a quick easy way to send documents to all of a student's teachers. An email to all teachers can be sent through the current schedule tab but there is no way to attach a document.

    40 votes

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  18. Modify application add process

    Allow parents to select ADD application without having to select a student first. Allow them to select Add application and then if there is more than 1 student prompt them to select a student.
    Allow parents to select ADD application without having to select a student first. Allow them to select Add application and then if there is more than 1 student prompt them to select a student.

    13 votes

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  19. Message Center-Only Show Schedule After Online Reg

    For Message Center add the option to "Only Show Schedule After Online Registration is Completed" for only teacher messages. Because the teachers name and course is listed when a teacher posts to message center without this option its difficult to keep scheduling information under wraps under the online registration is complete. Administration / principal messages would need to be allowed prior to online registration completion. This would allow instructions and messages concerning the completing the online registration to be posted along with any other pertinent information.
    To be consistent with other areas and truly keep student schedule information hidden options…

    7 votes

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  20. Add an import for RTI

    Add a SkyBuild import interface for RTI data.

    8 votes

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