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Student Management Suite

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  1. Schedule Task with Preview

    For years I have had the Mass Delete Grades By Grade Bucket run as a 2 part Scheduled Task. The tasks that I had saved were no longer working so I created new templates to run the utility. However now from my Print Queue when I select the Task button "Schedule This" is not available to select. After submitting a Skyward service call I am told: "We recently changed an option to be able to schedule a process that has a preview. Any utility that has a preview at the beginning is no longer able to be scheduled. I apologize…

    34 votes

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  2. student access/student infor shows both families

    A student can see information on both family 1 and family two on student access/student info. this is a problem! If a parent uses the student's login they will be able to see both family 1 and family 2's address phone and email. this is a major problem due to data privacy. we have turned ours off. we would like to move the family information to another tab so we can leave access to the student information and what is located there and turn off access to family information.

    80 votes

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  3. Do not require all forms to be edited on a clone

    Many times when doing a review/revise only one or two areas of an IEP need to be adjusted - but as a result of cloning all forms need to be edited - this causes a lot of extra clicking in order to be able to print the entire review/revise IEP when only one page of the entire document may be updated

    28 votes

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  4. Able to submit multiple random records for export

    There are many times when multiple students need PIMS corrections. Currenlty there is only the option to submit 1 individual or the whole entity.
    Be able to select students from a pick list in order to extract/maintain/export they PIMS data to the state.

    23 votes

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  5. Font Size on District Report Cards

    We have received a request from the Post Office asking for us to increase the size of the font on the address on District Report Cards. We opened a service ticket but were told that the font size could not be changed.
    We are requesting to have the ability to increase the size of the font.

    29 votes

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  6. Mass Assign Title I - Add option for Individuals

    When Mass Assigning Title I records please consider adding the option to assign by Individual and By Processing List as these features exist in other Mass Add utilities.

    29 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Workflow  ·  Admin →
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  7. Would like to add a portfoilio attachments

    We would like to create portfolio attachments for Parent/Guardian IDs court documents birth certificates cum records etc. so that this information can be looked up under each student.
    We would like to be able to upload these documents to each portfolio tab created so they are readily available if needed by staff.

    9 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Family  ·  Admin →
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  8. Utility to Reset Dr. Note Required

    Need to have a utility where we can reset the "Dr. Note Required" flag as part of our EOY process.

    45 votes

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    2 comments  ·  Year End  ·  Admin →
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  9. Margins In Attendance/Discipline Letters

    We would like to shrink the margins on our custom letters to fit all information on one page. This would be beneficial for layout of the custom letters.

    28 votes

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  10. Skybuild - Special Education Information

    I'd like to request the addition of the Special Ed information to the Skybuild Import area.

    73 votes

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    2 comments  ·  Skybuild  ·  Admin →
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  11. Custom Forms Need to Print Confidential Numbers

    When you print a custom form that pulls family phone numbers if they are flagged as confidential they print the word confidential. There needs to be added to options for editing Skyward Fields for Custom Forms like Data Mining the field for Phone should have a flag (check box) item to say 'Print Confidential Numbers.'

    33 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Data Mining  ·  Admin →
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  12. Add Withdrawal date to Customize area on Stu Prof

    Currently in the Customize area of the Student Profile you can opt to show the student's current enrollment date which displays only if the student is active. If the student is inactive the field shows as blank. It would be helpful if this field would switch to show the most recent withdrawal date if the student is inactive. This would be helpful to view when working in other screens to see when the student became inactive for the campus/district especially in regard to PEIMS coding. Currently you would have to open a new window to view the E/W screen or…

    15 votes

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  13. Student Indicators for Attendance

    This is a joint rfe from Amarillo and Birdville. We would like to be able to have the option to set student indicator(s) based on student attendance. Our districts are having to watch our student's attendance and it would be extremely helpful if we were able to have a student indicator that each district would be able to customize. Our idea is have a nightly job that runs as a scheduled tasks that would set a flag for all students who met the criteria set in the nightly job. Inside the job you could set what attendance type codes/what period(s)/Date…

    74 votes

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  14. E/W History in Skybuild

    Currently Skybuild only allows the current E/W recod to be exported. We would like the option of including historical E/W records as well. The problem is if one record was open yesterday but today that record was closed and a new one was opened the proper withdrawal information for the previous record is never transmitted.
    If it were possible to include E/W History in Skybuild we could export all E/W records for the year including their proper withdrawal dates and codes. Otherwise the recipient system will just get the new record and have to guess as to what values to…

    8 votes

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  15. option in gradebook to mark unscored as INCmissing

    As schools change their grading policies to eliminate the giving of zeros it makes sense to have an option to "mark all un-scored as missing and incomplete". This would be an additional button leaving the "mark un-scored as 0 and missing" or a way to change the function of that button.
    This option would be in response to latest educational practice which says zeros are unduly punitive and don't inspire students to follow up and do the work. An incomplete is no grade so if the student wants a grade they have to do something.
    I believe you could have…

    25 votes

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  16. Creating Groups in Gradebook

    Our district has a need to create groups in the gradebook that can be changed throughout the year. It would be beneficial to us if when a student is marked "No Count" for an assignment it would not show in student or family access. Currently the only way to group students locks them there all year. That is not the case for us.

    22 votes

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  17. Email Response for Parent Entered Requests

    When parents enter an attendance request an email is sent to the attendance secretary notifying the secretary of the request. When the attendance secretary opens the Parent Entered Request to Approve/Deny the request she can enter a reply to the parent. We need the reply to send an email the parent. Currently it only appears in Family Access if the parent returns to the Attendance tab.

    10 votes

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  18. Add Family access credentials to Auto-email

    Would like the ability to create an auto-email to the guardians of a student that includes the link to get their Family Access login and password set up that is triggered when the NSOE application is approved.

    1) the ability to manually send this email already exists on the family screen
    2) there is an auto-email that triggers off of the NSOE approval but the set up does not include the FA credentials.
    We just need to two connected.

    6 votes

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  19. Different rights for different parents

    In some cases we have a parent who has educational rights but has a protective order from knowing where mom/child live. By law we have to give parent rights to kids grades but not where he/she lives guardians names registration info etc. Skyward really needs to add a code of some sort that ONLY gives that member of the family rights to the GRADES tab not attendance not student info nothing else!!!!

    8 votes

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  20. Add ability to delete Message

    Please add a "Delete" button to Message Center. Users would like to be able to remove/delete a scheduled message prior to the deliver date/time. The button "Recall" is confusing to the end user. Thank you.

    35 votes

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