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Student Management Suite

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  1. Need ability to print approval info

    When printing the Applications from I need to print the online application for our review but when I print the application it doesn't show our approval information.

    Need that info

    48 votes

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  2. add GT and 04 indicators to class roster

    We love the way the class roster prints out and the fact that is will indicate your LEP and Spec ed students but if it also printed out the GT and the 504's that would be excellent. Please consider adding these to the template.

    26 votes

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  3. Mass Print Portfolio Attachments

    Allowing parents to upload registration documents in the online registration module places them in the student portfolio tab. At this time there is no way to mass print those attachment so if 1000 parents upload attachments we have to go to each individual student and print them. That is a lot of work hours. If we were able to mass print them by type and date range we could save hours or even days worth of work.

    Create a report in Students-->Student Profile-->Reports named "Portfolio Report" (similar to custom forms report) that allows us to choose a date range and…

    48 votes

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  4. Add Student Email and Special Ed Active Fields

    Add student student school email and special education active fields as options under Skyward Fields to Use. Currently these 2 fields are not available to use in custom student forms yet 504 active and guardian email are. My district has needed the student email and special ed active fields for 3 different custom forms.
    Student School Email and Special ed active are available to choose from the Skyward Fields to Use area under student custom forms

    27 votes

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  5. IEP Agreements

    My understanding is that because we have multiple IEP forms created a student would have to have all 5 forms complete for the instructors to get the "agreement" check box. This causes an issue for us because our students come to us from 5 different school districts so a student will only have 1 IEP form - not all 5 assigned to them.
    I would request consideration to allow an IEP to be signed off on by teachers based on one form being complete.

    23 votes

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  6. Build table of CIDORs

    Currently the field for Campus ID of Residence is a free form text field. It would be beneficial to have a table created so that valid codes could be chosen from a drop down list.

    Negative impact would be entry of CIDOR that is out of designated boundaries higher possibility of data entry errors and more time consuming data entry on every entry.
    Having the valid codes provided will allow for less data entry fewer errors and cleaner data.

    12 votes

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  7. Would like the transcript tab in Family Access

    It would be a huge help if students could view the transcript tab in Family Access to see if the school has sent out the transcripts to the colleges that they had requested and when.

    65 votes

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    Great suggestion! One way that transcript sent information can be visible in Family and Student Access is to use Data Mining and the Report Directory. This will even work for any information you can put together in a Data Mining report!

    Within Data Mining, after you’ve created the report, you can select which entities you’d want this to be available for Family Access Display tab. You will then need to turn on the Report Directory within the Family Access Entity Configuration (WS\FA\FM\PS\CF\EC) and enable for Student and/or Family Access.

    Once setup, your students or guardians can login and navigate to the Portfolio tab and they will be able to run these reports. The benefit to this is that when the report generates, only results for the appropriate student will display.

    If there are any questions or assistance needed on this setup, our Customer Consulting Specialists would be a great help.…

  8. request for referral on busing

    I have been asked to make a request that a discipline referral be added to the transportation portal so bus drivers can submit misbehavior on the bus and the principals can pull it out of the program or will get an email to notify them of the referral.

    14 votes

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  9. Preview Needed

    Both the Student Mass Change and especially the Student Mass Delete (and maybe others) need some form of a preview.
    I ran the Student Mass Delete utility in Report mode to verity that the proper number of students would get deleted. As you know when the utility runs it doesn't save the template. When I ran it the second time in Report and Report & Delete mode I didn't run it against the same range and ended up deleting all students from the entity.
    Having both a Report mode and a Report & Delete mode is inadequate unless you can…

    31 votes

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  10. Add Advisor Name

    Would like the advisor name added to this report. We mail this report home and freshmen students do not always know who their advisor is.
    Freshmen need to know who their advisor is before the start of the school year.

    47 votes

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    Good Afternoon,

    Thank you for your votes on this enhancement idea. To ensure we have the correct report, could you provide confirmation as to what specific report this enhancement is referring too? The additional information will give valuable information in moving forward with this request.

    Thank you.

  11. a way to pull rcdts codes for serving entitys

    Please add a way to pull Illinois county district and district type codes for serving and home districts in skybuild. These would be used with the serving school code to provide a full RCDTS for each student. We currently can not export these needed fields to eStar to keep our local demographics up to date in their database.
    Outcome should be we can build groups in the skybuild export to provide these numbers by student. We are able to do this with our default schools only.

    46 votes

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  12. Allow category weighting on skills

    We would like skills to use category weighting rather than just event weighting to calculate the final grades.

    23 votes

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  13. Make Summary Page text in NSOE Custom

    The text on the summary page as shown in my attached example cannot be changed. Please make the custom so that we can change the text to read what we would like to read.
    It currently reads "...Please select one of the following options:" However there is only one options to click on. That causes confusion for the parent. When I tested this I was like...am I suppose to have another button or just the one button. I think it would be best if you could just leave this wording off since there is only one button.

    26 votes

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  14. View of Customer Payments applied to charges

    The goal is to enable the Skyward user to easily determine to which charge(s) a customer's payment was applied ie. which payments paid what charges. Currently there is no quick way to determine on the customer's fee management screens which charges a payment was applied to in the customer's record. You have to drill down into each and every charge or payment to try to determine which paid what and other charges and payments that are irrelevant to the transaction appear which is very confusing.

    Perhaps there can be some type of cross reference on the face of the customer…

    44 votes

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  15. Add Ability for Kiosk to Fill Missed Att. Periods

    The intention of this request is to streamline the attendance entry process by enhancing the system to fill in attendance periods missed automatically. The goal is to enhance data quality and employee efficiency. The negative impact would be not utilizing the product or increased employee efforts to ensure data quality if component is used.
    Ideally setup would be available for system to automatically fill in attendance periods missed prior to arrival or after student signs out. We would like for this component to be used for early dismissals and late arrivals.

    56 votes

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  16. Add Home Lang Code from LEP/BIL/ESL Tab

    Add home language code as a field that can be exported in skybuild. This field is located in student profile > Special Programs > LEP/Bil/ESL > Home Language Code. This is the field that is reported to TEA so we need to be consistent when exporting home language to other applications.
    Export the home language code from student profile > Special Programs > LEP/Bil/ESL > Home Language Code

    44 votes

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  17. Adding/Reordering Skills

    It would be nice in this area if there was an easier way to move skills. One option would be to select a task and then click add which would add a new task after the selected task rather than having to move up or down. Another option would be to have the icon to drag the task to the location you want it rather than using the up or down arrow one space at a time. This would save time when adding or changing skills to a list.

    22 votes

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  18. Importing of Health Information

    The ability to import Health information that are entered on Registration forms in InfoSnap to Skyward. Alerts and critical alerts denoted by parents. This would save time of having to re-enter things into Skyward that parents have entered in InfoSnap regarding Health related issues. Also if eliminate the need of campus personnel having to look at both systems. Alerts are critical and need to be VERY visible to staff at a moments notice.
    The flexibility to import and export more student related data between Skyward and other software.

    57 votes

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  19. Course Type Codes with More Than 3 Characters

    We need to be able to create Course Types with more than 3 characters. Being limited to 3 characters hinders our users to utilize/create codes that contain more than 4 or more characters. The downfall we are running into is that when a transcript is printed courses that have 4 or more course types attached does not print all the codes associated.
    This will allow our registrars to print transcripts with accurate data displayed.

    7 votes

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  20. Backscheduling in the Flex Mod Environment

    With converting to Flex Mod Scheduling we have found the backscheduling has become very time consuming due to the multiple yet specific mods that individual students can be scheduled into. We work on a 14 mod (period) day at 5 days a week equals 70 different mods a student can be scheduled into. Is it possible to create a secure group of users who only have access to make changes to study halls.
    Currently the time it takes to "backschedule" a student into a resource center is an inefficient use of time for counselors teachers and the registrar. Teachers normally…

    41 votes

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