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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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Student Management Suite

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  1. Quick Print for Parent Web ID Letter

    I'd like to see a Quick Print button on the web access tab so that we could set up or use a letter (either a Skyward configured one (like the basic/enhanced report card) or a custom letter like we have) and be able to generate a letter with the parents web access username and password. If there would be a better location to put the Quick Print button that's fine. But something is needed because the only option is to go into Data Mining and try to create all of the letters then find the one that needs to be…

    24 votes

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  2. Student Browse Test Scores

    Add Keystone Test Scores under Test Scores in the Student Browse view like the Student Profile for easier view of the Keystone Scores.

    23 votes

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  3. Add LEP Y/N Option to Student Profile Tab

    I cannot count how many different reports I run using Data Mining or exports of data that need to go to third parties reports for grants administrative reports and reports for funding associated to students who are ELL. Skyward allows us to search for LEP Served but doesn't have a simple LEP (Y/N) field as it does for Special Education. Frankly I'm shocked this request hasn't come across a long time ago. Can this field get added to Student Profile? There's a Student Indicator that will show (assuming it's enabled) if a student is LEP but we can't use Data…

    35 votes

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  4. add an optional fee to a course

    We currently can add a required fee to a course such as a fee for all students in choir. We can also add an OPTIONAL fee to an entire school population. We need to have the ability to add an OPTIONAL fee to a course. This would allow us to set up a fee for a garment bag to students in choir. Nice to have but not required. OR a choir dress if last year's does not fit anymore.
    It seems we can add a required fee to a course. AND we can add an optional fee to an entire…

    31 votes

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  5. Email Guardians Button

    Please add a button with exact functionality as "Email Teachers" only to "Email Guardians". Right now there's no way to email all the guardians in a family or to choose from amongst available guardians. User has to click the link write an email; click the link write another email etc.. Other possibility is to cc the other parent--but this requires switching back and forth through windows plus a copy and paste and errors are possible. If the attached screen had an Email Guardians button it would be so helpful!

    29 votes

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  6. Verification Status Report Needs Date Range Option

    Greetings. We use the Returning Student Registration option via Family Access to register returning to district students as well as returning next year students. So essentially it's always open. Unlike NSOE there's no notification to our staff unless Pseudo Changes occur. I've shown them how to check the Verification Status screen and how to run this report. Problem is if you want to check a time frame or perhaps schedule this weekly to see if any parents completed this process (let's even assume with no changes so this would be your only option of even knowing) you always get the…

    29 votes

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  7. Edlio Website Intergration

    We use Edlio for web hosting of our website. We would like to integrate our SIS with their service to use additional features available. We are particularly interested in using their voice and text message services. If you have any question please contact me for more information.

    12 votes

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  8. Health letters

    Can the Vacc Letters be changed to "Health Letters" to automatically document any Hearing/Vision/Scoliosis/Vaccines/etc letter that is generated and sent home? It is important for these letters to be properly documented and recorded as being sent. Thank you

    26 votes

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  9. POS improvement

    It seems to be when an incorrect number is entered and it takes you to the selection screen. The default is the first person in the alphabet and if you accidentally choose select instead of back the purchase is charged to the default person. It would seem to me that a better option than that would be when an incorrect # is entered you would get a message on the screen that lets you know that the # is incorrect. If you want to look up by person you can choose the customers tab in the lower left of the…

    29 votes

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  10. Ability to move widgets around when using Ipad

    We aee an Apple district with most employees and students using Ipads. While at the user conference in October I was using an Ipad to follow along. During the Skyport & Mobile Apps for Finance & HR I was unable to move widgets with the Ipad -this not a functionality at this time on mobile devices.
    It would be useful to have the same functionality of moving widgets around on a mobile device. As a district we would like to encourage more mobile use for hierarchy approvers but this is difficult when widget they need to quickly see is not…

    32 votes

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  11. Parent needs to see all time slots that were avail

    When a parent is trying to view all available conference time slots and a teacher is completely booked it only allows the parent to view the time slots taken for that specific course and section. We want the parent to see all time slots that were at one point available but are now closed. The parent in this example thought we only gave them 8 choices when in reality there were 30 available spots.

    28 votes

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  12. Auto Email Trigger/studen locator

    The student check in at the nurse needs to trigger the automated emails to the teachers on the student schedule. Teachers usually do not even have access to the student management piece of Skyward which then also makes us give them access to that module so they can see the student locator to see if a student is in the nurse's office. The systems needs to include the auto emails for the nurse module and the student locator needs to be programmed in to be included in Educator Access. Teachers should not have to have two separate windows open to…

    28 votes

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  13. Percent Attendance by Teacher Report

    It would really be helpful if this report also broke down by course. All of our PK classes report attendance in period 6. So the report combines the morning and afternoon classes together. We need the ability to show them separately.

    30 votes

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  14. Email button addition

    In the current scheduling tab there is an email button that you can email individuals. Can we get that in the attendance section?

    30 votes

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  15. Add Ability To Mass Fill Service Dist / School ID

    To be able to mass fill the Tennessee Course Section Service District ID and Service School ID. As it is now: We must input this manually for every section which can be very very time consuming.

    This would greatly help in populating those fields quickly and efficiently.

    42 votes

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  16. Utility to mass change "Date Due"

    Need the ability to mass change "Date Due" on items within the textbook tracker. Specific to devices and not textbooks for students and staff who keep their iPad or Laptop over the summer and through the next school year.
    This feature will be a time saver to admin/campus staff when updating inventory and due date information to be able to run a utility to change a due date for a specific date criteria to reflect a new date a year in the future will save having to adjust records one by one.

    15 votes

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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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