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Student Management Suite

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  1. Save Descipline letters to Student records

    Currently Discipline Letters cannot be saved to the student record. Attendance Letters are but not Discipline Letters. We would like to be able to save these letters to the Student record in Skyward.

    Add the capability to save Discipline letters to the student record as Attendance Letters are. Provide a Letters button in the Student Profile Discipline tab to allow users to view any Discipline Letters sent.

    39 votes

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  2. Post Daily Attendance/OFSDP minutes

    Teachers with multiple courses assigned to one period prefer to view attendance by period in order to take attendance in the same screen. The OFSDP campuses can only submit attendance in the "view attendance by class." Most OFSDP teachers teach multiple classes in one period so they would like to enter their minutes by period just like the regular attendance side.
    The OFSDP teachers always teach multiple courses in a period so this change would allow the attendance taking process more streamlined.

    25 votes

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  3. Utility to inactivate staff

    Managing staff and security accounts manually is a major task. I would like to request a utility that would inactivate users in Staff and set the Active Secured User field in Security to 'No' if they have not logged in within xx number of days. We would be able to select the number of days since last log in to inactivate.

    Inactivating accounts for staff who've been out for a lengthy period of time. But the resolution would be easy since accounts are only being inactivated. We would turn those accounts back on manually.

    44 votes

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  4. Allow date range for missing assignment display

    Family/Student Access - gradebook display - missing assignment list
    Please don't display assignments as missing if the student is not enrolled in the class. That covers classes that have ended (from 1st semester) and classes that have been dropped. I can't imagine a time when that list could be helpful and the list loses its impact and usefulness when students learn to ignore it because "that's all old stuff I can't make up anymore anyway".
    This list currently displays missing assignments for classes the students are no longer enrolled in. I have changed temporarily changed the configuration to limit the…

    25 votes

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  5. Ranges for Student Entry Resubmission

    From the Student Check-In screen under Office Visits users are currently able to look up students that are Inactive. When in a specific entity users are also able to look up a student that has never been enrolled in that entity. This can cause issues for a district if the student keys in the wrong number.

    31 votes

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  6. Special Programs- Reports/Transactions

    1. Have all special programs (including but not limited to: foster care homeless immigrant military connected PK PRS LEP and Title I--- Sped At Risk and 504 are already listed there) listed under the Student Services Tab. This would give the ability to view the students in a browse list who have the coding.
    2. Need the ability to view and report on all coding /history and change logs for those special programs.
    3. Need the ability to run special program reports from the Student Services tab instead of relying on data mining.
    31 votes

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  7. Creating Processing List using School emal

    It would be very helpful if School Email was added to the options for importing Students to a processing list. Currently the only options are Name Key Other ID and State ID.

    22 votes

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  8. "Administered By" - restriction option

    The goal of this enhancement is to give the districts the option to restrict the data that can be entered into the "Administered By" field when administering student medications.

    Our school nurses indicate that standard accepted medical practice is for the person who is administering the medication to be the same person who is also entering the data into the student's medication administration record. By allowing the Skyward user to enter someone else (other than the person logged into Skyward) in the "Administered By" field of a student record without actually seeing that person administer the medication that has the…

    23 votes

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  9. Promotion Status- add placed

    We use Secondary report cards and transcript labels have been ask year after year to have a choice other that promoted pending or retained to "PLACED"
    The administrators feel like when they see "Placed" on a report card and transcript label that this would raise questions and to dig deeper into why the student was PLACED. The choice could be just like we do the other choices under the entity tab.
    Also add to the mass add promotion/retention utility. Add processing list as a option to mass add.
    On the transcript label (not TX transcript label) print option under additional…

    25 votes

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  10. Increase field length for Key Concentps

    While other areas in the Curriculum map can be set to have a short and long description the key concept area is limited to 100 characters per entry. This is not long enough for out needs and some items are getting cut off. The reason why our entries are so long is that we are using a UBD curriculum map format which requires us to type in what a student is expected to understand not just a simple topic name.
    We would like to either increase the length of the "Key Concept Area" or change the area to work more…

    22 votes

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  11. Teacher Acces to view Hearing and Vision Screening

    At this time Skyward does not allow for a classroom teacher to be able to view their classroom roster's student health screenings. (Yes they could see ALL students in their building if we add them as a Student Management Security Group; however our Superintendent and the Deputy want it to be limited to the teacher's roster only).

    Our School Nurses and Teachers hope Skyward will be able to be configured so the teacher can view this information at the teacher's view of the student profile from within Educator Access. They would like the same view as the parent has at…

    24 votes

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  12. Mail Merge Data Mining

    I need the option to set up mail merge in landscape layout versus the only current option of portrait.

    20 votes

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  13. Standards Coverage report

    When using curriculum mapping we are having a hard time confirming that all standards associated to a curriculum master record was linked to a curriculum map. For example we know all the specific standards that should be covered in 3rd grade math which are linked to the curriculum record. We will then want to confirm that the curriculum map appropriately addresses all the standards to ensure complete coverage of standards.
    A report which lists which standards were covered how many times and highlighting the standards which were not covered would be helpful.

    21 votes

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  14. Add Ability to Select Multiple Individual Students

    It would be helpful to have the ability to select multiple individual students on the PIMS Extract screen just like you can do for other reports. Right now I can enter a Student Key range ultimately allowing me to run a PIMS extract for one kid at a time. However I'm thinking it'd be helpful to be able to select Range or Individual. If you check Individual you could then add one name key at a time to a selected names list. That way if there are 5 kids I know I must run an extract for I can add…

    32 votes

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  15. Sort Events by Category

    Currently events in the standards gradebook cannot be sorted by category (only by due date). Based on how elementary teachers are using categories to track competencies in different areas it would be ideal to be able to sort by event category. I would like to see this option added to the Event Display options in the standard gradebook.

    22 votes

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  16. Enable Families to enter vaccination information

    To reduce data entry and enable more electronic processing please create a way for families to enter new vaccination information - either as an option in Online Registration or as an item in Family Access similar to what is available in NSOE.
    Similar to NSOE families can enter their student's vaccination records instead of having nursing staff enter all. This is a nice feature in NSOE but not all vaccinations are done at the time of the NSOE entry and there is no way for parents to go back in and add them later OR add future required vaccinations.

    35 votes

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  17. Add Grade Year to the Range in Custom Forms NSOE

    We use a lot of custom forms and you can choose which forms a student fills out based on their grade. We as asking that you also add grad year as a range to define who can see the forms. When my 4K students are enrolling for next year their grade will be PK/EC and that is the same for all grade years after the current 4K so it does not show the forms correctly when a student is enrolling.

    35 votes

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  18. Teacher lunch and preps on schedule

    Enable a course to be indicated that it is for a teacher schedule
    . On a course have in the drop down 'category' have Teacher Schedule. When you would select this you could have meets and assign teachers but not assign students. This would then enable the class to print on the teacher schedule.

    34 votes

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  19. Add Edit Scores Option to Test Scores Tab

    Attached is a small tutorial with screen shots outlining an option I'd like to see added to the Test Scores tab. If you work with test scores you know that the import option is best. However if you're using demographic information to load or if you have a number of kids that cannot be imported you have to find some sort of assembly line method to make it work to be efficient. The process isn't bad however one simple button added to each of two screens can make this process SO much easier for those of us needing to input…

    27 votes

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  20. Schedule Tracker to update real time/more often

    It would be helpful if the tracker would update real time or could be set to update periodically throughout the day - since it only updates once a day as they are updating and correcting things they are not seeing a true picture of the status of students via the Widgets/Tracker.

    23 votes

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