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Student Management Suite

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  1. Treatment Tab

    We would like to request a Treatments tab in the Health area. Our nurses would like it to have the same functions as the Medication tab so that treatments can be entered and scheduled and be able to be reported on. The example given was a student that has seizures. The nurse has a daily treatment with this student that cannot be scheduled.

    23 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Health  ·  Admin →
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  2. Option on report for Tax

    Add an option to the Fees Paid report that will show you how much money was received in Taxes when you use the tax feature in the Fee Management Configuration.

    6 votes

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  3. Add School Psych to list of Student Contacts

    When setting up nightly email notifications it would be helpful to notify the school psychologist assigned to a student about special education evaluations since they are the ones that complete the evaluations. These people are not always service providers so they don't fall into that available category so I would like to see "school psychologist" added as a category under "Student Contacts".
    This enhancement would keep school psychologists notified about upcoming evaluations and those that are past due.

    23 votes

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  4. Custom report cards element cloning

    This applies to CTE but could also have implementations in K-12.

    While it is possible to clone Standards Based Custom Report Cards and change the school year (Being able to do this automatically as part of the cloning processes at the end of the year would be great) if you are using an object in the report to limit the results that you see on the report you are bound to having to select those each year.

    We are using Standards Gradebook Custom Report Card currently to show all tasks that a student has accomplished against and Academic Area. This…

    25 votes

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  5. TEACHER SCORE CARD

    We are trying to implement the teacher score card and have gotten feed back from Administrators that the words scorecard is like we are scoring them on something. Its seems harsh to some. We are requesting that a name change be like "Classroom Statistics" or something like Grade book Statistics

    12 votes

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  6. "DR NOTE REQUIRED"

    This would be helpful if it could be seen in the attendance screen. While I do enter attendance through student profile I am usually on the enter attendance screen. This "Indicator would prove to be be

    VERY helpful if it was visible on all of the attendance screens as sort of an indicator.
    We have attendance rules like if a student has more than five absences in a semester their absences are unexcused w/o a Dr. note. Since there are no bells an whistles that sound when student reaches that threshhold. Having this indicator when entering attendance would be VERY…

    39 votes

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  7. Ability to Combine Standards Gradebooks

    It would be very helpful if we had the ability to combine the standards gradebooks the same way that we can combine secondary gradebooks in Educator Access Plus.

    30 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Gradebook  ·  Admin →
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  8. Custom Form View on Family Access Read Only

    It would be very helpful if we could make Custom Forms view-able to parents on Family Access. We have a Behavioral Standards custom form that is completed by several teachers. We would like parents to be able to view the form on Family Access instead of printing them all out and sending them home. Report Cards are available to our parents in the Portfolio tab and we would love to see the option to add Custom Forms there as well.

    24 votes

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  9. Medication inventory read quanity

    Want the inventory section of the medication profile to read quantity not milligrams as not all medications come in MG... We count per pill not by milligrams. or have a drop down for mL for liquid meds and pills for pill form medications.
    clarification: in the medical field when we do inventory counts we count the number of tablets not the number of milligrams or puffs (inhalers). So when you add a medication inventory we would like the option to pick capsules tablets puffs or milliliters. We don't want the inventory to count milligrams or what we put in the…

    35 votes

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  10. Option to Clone Variable Scales

    We need an option to clone variables scales in the secondary gradebook from entity to entity and include it as part of the year end utilities to clone from year to year.
    We have 20 campuses and we have to define the percent high and low values from 1 to 100! That's 2000 we will have to enter annually when we should be able to clone them after the first 100.
    WS\EA\GB\SE\PS\CF\VS

    6 votes

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  11. Grade Mark Group Long Descriptions

    Expand the Grade Mark groups description on SBRC teacher screen: There is room on the left.

    32 votes

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  12. Limit the screen to only so many records

    Right now in Office Visits it is displaying all years including historical visits on one page. For those students who see the nurse 3 times a day it takes forever to load the page.
    By limiting the number of viewable records on one screen and then allowing the user to page to the next 'x' number of records it would allow the pages to load quicker.

    22 votes

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  13. Increase Email Recipients on Exports

    The Email Results To field is limited to 200 characters. If the number of users who you would like to email the results to exceeds this number you would have to create the second export. ** If the field is extended(like this box of 911) there would be no need to run a second export to send to email recipients that did not fit on the first run because of the 200 character rule.

    25 votes

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  14. Enable export of students with PA ID

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    hen students change key items in Skyward name birthdate sex you must upload the students to the PIMS PA Secure ID web site with the changes. Now to accomplish this you need to key in all this information which can lead to mistakes. If you have a large number of students (which on occasion we do) this becomes time consuming when you have to 'assign' the ID on the PA side and resolve miss matches. I've included a screen show of the information
    Enable a selection of specific students that have PA ID's to upload to the state website…

    23 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

    10 votes

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  16. Need to be able to export E/W Calendar data

    We use multiple Calendars within an entity and we need to export the Calendar Code that is associated with that specific E/W record. Right now the only option for Calendar Code is the one that is tied to the Current E/W record. That means that if a student does a Status Change and moves from one Calendar to another within the same entity the previous Calendar Code cannot be exported.
    The other systems receiving this data cannot function correctly because the data coming out of Skyward is not correct at this time. Simply adding this field to the available fields…

    58 votes

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  17. NEED TO ADD A REGISTERED TRADEMARK SYMBOL

    Our district offers many AP courses and we are required to have the trademark symbol after the letters AP on any of our course descriptions in the catalog transcript report card or any report. Skyward does not allow us to enter the symbol and converts it to (R). I just want to make sure that we document that we have tried to comply with the request made and that if any legal actions are taken that it is not held against the district because of the inability to accomplish this in Skyward. I have spoke to a customer representative from…

    15 votes

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  18. Import stu photos to custom forms/adv cust forms

    While setting up Online Registration for the first time we discovered that we cannot import student photos into a custom form or advanced custom form. We like to have student pictures on the emergency cards when we print them out for office use.

    87 votes

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  19. Import for Grad Reqs

    Would like a Skybuild import to enter ACT tests for reimbursement. The state has templates you can use to import the data to their site but they are so awful they are unusable. When nearly every junior take this test it's a chore to hand enter each record each year.

    Note: Want a skybuild import to import from ACT file to create records in Student/Special Prgms/Grad Req. These records can then be exported using the SERVS/Grad Req extract.

    47 votes

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  20. translated forms

    It would be extremely beneficial to our district and I'm sure others as well to have the DPI translated special education forms uploaded into the forms templates. As it is now I have to clone the English version of the form then either cut and paste from the DPI Word document or type it in myself. This is not difficult but is quite time consuming. If we had 1 person doing this then all other districts would just need to upload the form.
    Outcome: One person puts in the time to enter/create the translated form instead of each district on…

    29 votes

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