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Student Management Suite

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  1. Add- Sort by Counselor to transcripts and RC

    Since we can now designate the student's counselor and can print for a range of counselors for transcripts and report cards it would also be helpful if we could print all the transcripts sorted by counselor. Currently we have to print each counselors group of transcripts by range with means we run the print multiple times.

    12 votes

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  2. NSOE in Family Access - entity specific

    Would like a option to be able to disable New Student Online enrollment in Family access for each entity. Making it entity specific.
    Could this me accomplished by adding it to Family Access > Setting > Configuration > Entity Setup like the others we can enable and disable.

    35 votes

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  3. Discipline Graphs

    When reviewing a discipline graph report and then clicking "export to calc" for additional information could "time" be added to that excel report?

    25 votes

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  4. Customer Meal Statement Deposits Posted First

    On the Customer Meal Statement report I am requesting that all deposits are reflected first and then the purchases for each day. When viewing a Customer Meal Statement customers look like they are in the negative more often than they actually are because the programming currently has all the purchases for the day posted first before the payments for the day are posted. This makes it hard to do a quick analysis of a customer to see how frequently they are actually in the negative. If the payments were posted first and then the purchases the running balance would reflect…

    24 votes

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  5. Add Near & Far vision screening fields to Letters

    Merge fields in the letter only have Corrected and Uncorrected Right and Left eyes and is pulling the Far vision results. For the state of PA we need to specify the Near vision and Far vision fields for each eye corrected and uncorrectd and label and report them all. Need the Near vision fields added to the letter.

    Expected outcome is to have merge fields for PA districts for both Near Corrected Right and Left eye and Near Uncorrected Right and Left eye as well as the existing Far Corrected Right and Left eye and Far Uncorrected Right and Left…

    33 votes

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  6. Option to exclude account from timeout setting

    We have accounts that are setup for student kiosks in the Clinic and Counselors office. Because of the attendance requirements we have our security setup to automatically log users out after 15 minutes which is also happening to these kiosk accounts. We need an option to exclude them so they don't have to login every 15 minutes.
    Log kiosk machines in once and have them stay logged in forever so students can use it to check in. If the nurses & counselors have to go log back into skyward so the student can check in then they might as well…

    48 votes

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  7. adding a blank or asterisks for default

    On student Profile when entering the student key social security number or other id if the student does not fall in the range would like it to default to a blank or asterisks screen instead of first student in alpha.
    this hopefully will stop mis-entering information under a students record that should not be updated.

    21 votes

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  8. Application of trend grading to subjects

    We have set up subjects within each course that each have multiple skills. We would like for the subject grade to be a trend of all events added within that subject. Right now it is set up so that each skill gets a trend rating and if we choose to grade the subject it is an average of each of the skill ratings.

    This would allow teachers to report trend ratings by skill or by skill grouping and all events entered would have an equal weight. The power law calculation would not need to change it would just be applied…

    58 votes

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  9. Entering events for specific studnts

    We would like to have the option of selecting individual students or ranges of students when entering an event. Right now when entering an event the default is for the event to be applied to all students.

    With standards based grading the teacher is often grading only one student or small groups of students. This would allow the flexibility for teachers to only enter the events for the students who were assessed.

    57 votes

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  10. Notification of Assignments turned in Electronic

    From Teacher : I'm wondering about students submitting late assignments through Skyward and if there is a way to get a notification when a student submits an assignment late. I'm finding that after I go through and grade assignments that have been uploaded I don't have a good way to know if a student submits something after that. So far the only option seems to be for me to keep checking the graded assignment to see if anything has been submitted recently. That takes a lot of checking. If Skyward has or added a notification option I'd love to get…

    44 votes

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  11. Medication Inventory Autoemail

    The problem with the Medication Inventory dose email is if you have an epipen that is only one dose. If we set up that autoemail that parent will receive an autoemail daily if we set it up that parents receive an email once the dose is down to 5. The expiration date autoemail works great for the epipen but not the other. Any suggestions?

    26 votes

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  12. Medication Inventory in Quick Entry

    When in Quick Entry for Medication our health aides just check that the student received their medication for that day. The only problem is it doesn't show them on that screen what the current inventory is so they are able to keep reducing the inventory without realizing it is already at a negative. So ideally they should not be able to give a medication that is in negative inventory or it should be highlighted red. Unfortunately we are finding our medication inventory and the medication in the bottle are not matching.

    26 votes

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  13. Medication Inventory Report

    We are having issues with medication inventory and the inventory being off. We know that we can see the current inventory and we can see how it is administered each day but we would like to run a report to see what Skyward showed the inventory was on a daily basis. Example: We had a student whose inventory was spot on on 12/15/16 but now today 1/9/17 it is off. We want to run a report back to 12/15/16 to today to see what Skyward showed the inventory was on a daily basis along with the administers.

    25 votes

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  14. PreID not pulling accommodations

    Our district enters ESE accommodations into the Local Accommodations box in Skyward; but these aren't recognized during the PreID process. See attachment for screenshots of student accommodation location. Can Skyward's PreID script look for accommodations from the Local Accommodations box to assign the Y/N for this field? And if that is not possible can the PreID script automatically assign a "Y" for accommodations if a Primary Exceptionality is identified?

    52 votes

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  15. Changes to the Endorsement Area

    I have noticed when I go in to delete or add an endorsement (make any type of change) it wipes out the parent and student signature name and dates. Is there any way possible that endorsements can be added or deleted but the other information does not delete and can stay there unless we choose to change it? Some students have several endorsements on their 4 year plans and then maybe choose not to complete one of them. It would be easier to just delete that one or add one when we see they will have an extra endorsement without…

    24 votes

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  16. field access in Skybuild

    Make the 504 data housed in the Special Programs area available to Skybuild.

    29 votes

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  17. 2nd Family Conference Scheduling

    Teaching staff is requesting that ONLY 1ST Family/Guardians be allowed to schedule conferences. Currently every guardian attached to the student has the ability to schedule. This creates multiple teacher conferences for the same child and unfortunately the parents that can't get along twist their meeting information and use it against the other effectively putting the child and teacher in the middle. It also takes a conference slot from availablity and forces the teacher to have virtually the same meeting twice.
    The option to limit registration to Family 1 already exists. It would be very helpful to have that option in…

    36 votes

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  18. Teacher Access to see if a Student Fee Paid Online

    As a district we are trying to move more and more of our fees to online payment. Our goal is to not have teachers collecting money within the classroom and storing the money in the classroom. The issue for the teachers is that they have no way of seeing which students have paid the fee online without having the school office generate a report for them. This is time consuming for the office and for the teacher. Some teachers require students to bring in the receipt of the payment from RevTrak in lieu of getting the information from the office.…

    48 votes

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  19. Add processing lists to Test Score module

    Wis. Stat. sec. 118.33(1m)(a)1 Section 3266R requires high school students to pass a civics test before graduating from high school beginning with the class of 2017. How and when the exam is given and recorded is up to individual districts - no vendor no mandatory recording procedure. But it is a requirement so my district is using Skyward to track student completion and include that information on transcripts. We have a need to identify students who have not yet taken or not yet passed the exam. I can use data mining ranges to find students who have a test record…

    25 votes

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  20. Default Assignment Display Options from District

    When creating a new assignment the display option for "Show Score As:" defaults to "Score". We need a way to make this default to "Variable Scale Point Value"? Preferably from the campus or district level.

    When creating a new assignment the display option for "Show Score As:" defaults to "Score". We need a way to make this default to "Variable Scale Point Value"? Preferably from the campus or district level.

    11 votes

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