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Student Management Suite

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  1. Addition of Term Selection to WS\OF\FS\SS\RE\MR

    We would really like to be able to run the Students Missing Specific Courses/Subjects report by specifying one or more terms rather than being locked into the full school year. For example we wanted to quickly produce a list of students who were missing only math courses for Semester 2. Since term selection is not available for this report we were not able to produce any reports of value. If there are alternate means of quickly producing such a report we'd gladly appreciate any feedback as we are brand new to Skyward this year and our knowledge base is still…

    6 votes

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  2. Custom Forms - cloning to the other system

    We would like to be able to clone a Custom Form from Student to Entity.

    74 votes

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  3. No Show Count or Excluded Assignments

    It would be beneficial for our district to enable a feature that would disable visibility in Family Access for specific students for specific assignments. Or the capability to select students that a specific assignment applies to within a classroom. There are some students that may need excluded from specific assignments and we would like those to not show in Family or Student Access.

    21 votes

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  4. Add Other ID to list of students

    We would like to see if Other ID for each student could be added to the choice of students when adding a student to the Activity. As we have many students with the exact same name. This would make it much easier.
    We would like to see if Other ID for each student could be added to the choice of students when adding a student to the Activity. As we have many students with the exact same name. This would make it much easier.

    25 votes

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  5. Add Link to use WISEid in Portfolio Importer

    Request to add "Link to" option for WiseID for Portfolio Importer. We attach the .pdf ISR reports for assessments to the student's portfolio. In order to do this in mass we rename the files to the student's ID that is available either in the file name (NWEA) or on the page : Forward ACT Aspire. Forward uses the student's NameID (the Skyward ID that is sent to the state) and ACT Aspire used the WiseID.
    It is easy to rename the files from a field on the report with inexpensive software. For the ACT Aspire report renaming it to the…

    36 votes

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  6. Custom Forms Tab Needs Quick Print & Utility

    I've submitted this before and it continues to be an issue at our district. If you access Students\Student Profile and select the Custom Forms tab the only way to print is to click Edit. This then requires a 'SAVE & PRINT' option which updates the Modified Date of the form. We really need a Quick Print button added here that looks at the Custom Forms Report - issue solved! Additionally I would like to see an option added to Mass Delete Custom Forms. We have a number of parents who complete registration for the wrong year. This only happens during…

    40 votes

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  7. Skybuild Field Needed

    Customer's need the Keep Attendance field from the Course Master added as a field available to export in Skybuild. This is a requirement for the Illuminate DnA export which is used widely throughout MI.

    27 votes

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  8. Absence Occurrence Report

    We would like to have total columns add to the Absence Occurrence Report so that it may total AUE's by the way we do our schedule. We have a 12 day rotation schedule Day1 is 1-6 and Day 2 is 7-12. I have attached some print screens so that you may understand what I am talking about. Please let me know it this would be possible. We have made a request like this in the past when we first acquired the software but nothing ever came of it. Thank you for your time.

    27 votes

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  9. Custom Forms - Cloning Security

    We would like the ability to clone security attached to custom forms. Currently when a custom form is cloned security does not clone and has to be set up for each form.

    35 votes

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  10. update all areas to use the Gender Identity

    The gradebook area is still hard coded based on the traditional gender field in Skyward. The gender identity is shown when viewing the student information but the main screen is still based on the traditional field. Please update all areas in the software to use the Gender Identity (if present) instead of the Gender field. It is very confusing to see different genders depending on where you are in the software.
    All areas of the software will use the Gender Identity if the field is filled in.

    37 votes

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  11. Absence/Tardy Thresholds for PASS+ Devices

    There are a few critical items needed in the Positive Attendance features to work more effectively and efficiently. PASS+ devices already read the Skyward bell schedule. Add the functionality of being able to set thresholds to count entries as tardy X number of minutes after the period begins and count entries as absent after X number of minutes into the period. Currently it only marks students present and when students arrive in class after using the Tardy Kiosk in the office it removes their tardy and marks them Being able to mark students present tardy and absent (significantly late) with…

    40 votes

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  12. Attachments

    Because there are a variety of areas in which to attach it would be extremely beneficial to have ALL attachments populate under the attachment tab regardless of what category/area they were attached under. if we can get the ability to attach things in a more specific manner that would greatly enhance the ability to appropriately document/scan/file things (and subsequently find them again quickly when needed). For example: the ability to attach to a specific injury or the ability to attach to the vaccine entry area (for maintaining Conscientious Objector forms) and the ability to attach a referral response in hearing/vision/scoliosis.

    71 votes

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  13. RFE - Student Profile - Career/Technical Tab PIMS

    We need to have the CIP Code updated in the Student Profile Career/Technical Tab whenever a student changes their Technical Shop. It was discussed before that you were working on having the CIP Code update in the profile when we update the student schedule with the new technical class. The issue I am having is that when they do change a student's schedule they do not notify me so I can manually go in and change the career/technical tab for my PIMS Upload. Since I do not get notified of the changes some students are reported in the wrong technical…

    33 votes

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  14. Name fields on Grading & Attendance Analysis Repor

    Currently the only option for this report is to pull the student's full name. It would be beneficial to have the student's name fields broken down by first name and last name.
    This report has the option to export directly into Excel. By pulling the name into separate fields campus administrators will be able to filter and search more easily.

    27 votes

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  15. Allow Sys-Wide users to delete Data Mining Reports

    Have an option to indicate System Wide Users who can have the ability to delete Data Mining Reports

    90 votes

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    3 comments  ·  Security  ·  Admin →
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  16. Diabetes Care log add CGM field

    FDA has approved the use of Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGM) for treatment of diabetes. We need a field added to the Diabetes Care Log (tab in office visit) and Diabetes Care Log tab from Student Profile. This number should have a 3 digit field with no leading zero. The field can be labeled "CGM"

    WS\OF\HR\TB\OV\OV

    WS\OF\HR\TB\DL

    WS\ST\TB\HR\TB\DL

    WS\ST\TB\HR\TB\OV\OV

    Right now the Diabetes Care log in Office Visits works better/differently that using the Diabetes Care Log from the Student Profile tabs. See RFE 2927779. In Office Visit you can add multiple times blood glucose but this feature has not yet been…

    40 votes

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  17. Create Option to Not Create Letters If Emailed

    Attendance Letters are currently generated for all students who meet the criteria. Parents of those students may have email addresses and can receive attendance emails. At this time there is no way to not generate letters for students whose parents will already get attendance emails and those letters must be manually pulled from the batch that was generated. It would be nice to be able to flag a student whose parents will receive emails to not generate an attendance letter.

    Ultimately the system would not generate an attendance letter for students whose parents will receive an email. This could be…

    53 votes

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  18. Do not show "end online form" date in Family Acces

    We are using the Online Form Configuration (Family Accesss) in connection with NSOE. When students enroll for the current school year - there are additional custom forms we want them to complete. We are adding their names to a processing list so they can view them in Family Access. What we do not like is that the End Online Form date shows in the Family Access canned message and cannot be removed.

    Please either remove this from the canned message or give us the option to show the End Online Form date or not.

    This is what the parent sees…

    48 votes

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  19. Block out grade entry for ranges of students

    We are looking for a way to isolate teachers from being able to enter any grades into their grade books for a range of students. We have students of all grades within classes and coming from a variety of schools. At the end of each year we get notice from our sending schools when they want grades for their senior students as well as when they want their underclassmen grades.

    The problem we have is that we have teacher who even after being told what schools and grades are due on what days there are grades that are still being…

    22 votes

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  20. Medical Grade Override Hassle

    We have noticed that when the Medical override is used for a quarter that the FINAL calculation does not take the override into consideration for final average.

    If there are 30 assignments before a Medical is given then the teacher needs to go through and set all 30 assignments to NO COUNT.

    It would seem that applying a Medical override should do just that...Override. Override the assignments so they do not count for or against the student who now is receiving a grade override.

    Either offer a utility that allows teachers to mark all assignments in term as no count…

    36 votes

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