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Student Management Suite

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  1. CLONE CALENDAR UTILITIES

    Our District has MANY calendars for both public & parochial entities. Each year calendars for all entities schools & calendars within each entity within each school need to be set up. That being said one question that I continue to have is the utility for "Clone Calendar Info in Same Year." What does this utility actually do? I have tried to set up 1 calendar in 1 entity with all the calendar detail entered & then ideally I would like to clone this calendar to all the other entities & calendars but only the very basic term dates get cloned…

    44 votes

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  2. Family Access display option

    In Family Access it would very beneficial for our parents/guardians have a setting that allows them to display just active and/or non graduated students. We have had requests from parents/guardians to remove foreign exchange students from their access to remove graduated students foster children etc. We know that there is a setting to only display active students however that is a district-wide setting. A setting within Family Access so that they can choose themselves would be great.

    45 votes

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  3. Gender Printing on Report Cards

    We have a request to not include Gender on many of the individual student reports we currently print. In this case the request is that the Student Schedule report not include Gender. We currently have no way to do remove this.

    38 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Scheduling  ·  Admin →
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  4. Change where transcripts sent to a free form text

    To make the work easier for our school registrars. This transcript sent option is used anytime the transcript is sent even to another high school and not just colleges. So instead of the registrar searching for the school and/or creating a new code they could just type in where the transcript was sent
    What we would want is to replace the school codes box and just make that a 40 (or whatever amount) character comment field with the date stamp still attached.

    48 votes

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  5. Add Proc List on Utility

    Would like this utility to include a "preview" with the ability to remove records from the preview prior to running the actual process.
    This will allow for the flexibility needed with this process.

    22 votes

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  6. Add School and Calendar Ranges to Message Center

    The Student Ranges available in Message Center do not include the capability of limiting the students by School or Calendar codes. Recently we sent scholarship application information to our High School students and Vocation students from out of the district all received the same email. As a result some of them applied for the scholarship even though they did not qualify because they were not residents of the district. They are coded with a different School code that would have been excluded them from the emails if the School code were an option to use to narrow the ranges. This…

    29 votes

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  7. As needed medications

    Want the option to select scheduled medications or as needed medications in the quick entry portion. Right now there is only the ability to give scheduled medications through this route but would like a filter to be able to select PRN meds as well. Currently having to enter each student's name and administer PRN's that way.

    50 votes

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  8. Obligations Visible in Family Access

    Need parents to be able to see obligations in FA so that it can't be said that they didn't know or weren't informed.
    Without parent being able to see them campus must send out constant reminders. Being able to tell parents that their obligations are always accessible would assist campuses in communicating to parents.

    37 votes

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  9. Add the ability to add FAMILY attachments

    Add the ability to add attachments that are accessible to multiple students in the same family. Especially helpful for Online Enrollment but valuable to all districts even if they don't use NSOE.

    So we don't have to go in and attach the same document individually to EACH student. ( gets time consuming with family's who have many children). AND it would be a place that could be looked at and know that the WHOLE family had the same information ( like proof of residency court docs for all the children etc.)
    Time saver for both families and staff to view…

    57 votes

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  10. Add Counselor Field to Customizable Options

    Recently Skyward provided a new field under Entity Info to allow districts (schools) to track Counselors if they differ from Advisors. This is a great option and Skyward did diligence to add it as a mass update option under Student Mass Change. Our staff would like to see this go one step further by adding the field as an option to updating a user's custom list of fields that display under the Extra Information option within Student Profile. When you click on the Customize link Advisor can be added however Counselor is not yet available. Screen shots attached. Thank you!

    6 votes

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  11. TX: Update Tracking report to include timestamps

    Texas reporting requirements include being able to report the date and time attendance data changes are made. We currently only offer timestamp data on a screen without the ability to create a report from it. This project is to update the Transaction Tracking report to include timestamps as well as date.

    27 votes

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  12. Ability to email from the Office Visit area

    Would like to have an Email button added to the Office Visit area. This would give the nurses options to communicate with parents at the time of exiting/releasing a student from the office.
    Add the Email button similar to the Email button on the Scheduling tab in student profile. Add the option (radial button) for parent email along with the staff and teacher options.

    25 votes

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  13. Formatting Text in Setup Area for Online Reg.

    Need the ability to format free form messages in the Online Registration setup area. Need to be able to highlight bold underline text because it all runs together and important information is lost in the current view

    Need the same formatting available in the message center and advanced custom forms

    31 votes

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  14. Adding Health Tab to Skyward Mobile Access

    We had a situation where a student had a medical emergency outside of the school building. Our nurse attempted to utilize the mobile skyward app to relay health conditions to the EMT's. The time it took to access the data through the desktop option on the app was extremely lengthy for an emergency situation. Having a heath tab on the mobile app would allow emergency personnel to assess patients quickly.

    Having a heath tab on the mobile app would allow emergency personnel to assess patients quickly.

    58 votes

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  15. Need ability to hide obsolete codes

    The Scheduling Team Codes table is not year specific. This makes it impossible to delete a code that was used in a previous school year but not used this year. SOmetimes a code table contains a status field. This helps in that inactive codes can be hidden and you are usually not allowed to select an inactive record.
    The Scheduling Team codes table should either be made year specific or have a status field added to it. Only currently 'active' codes should be selectable.

    30 votes

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  16. Add an Evaluation Due field

    The "case due" field tells staff the date an eval expires - three years from the completion date of the previous evaluation. Staff need an "evaluation due" for new evaluations that take place before the 3 year expiration date so they know when the 60 day period mandated for evaluations to be completed is up. For instance a student had an eval on 3/24/15 so the case due field is auto-filled with 3/24/18. However parents/staff have requested a new evaluation on 12/16/16 so staff need to know when 60 days from this new date is so they can have the…

    28 votes

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  17. Address Notification

    When Importing a new student record from a third party vendor into Skyward would it be possible to have a report that processes after importing notifying us that a students is currently connected to the address that we imported? This does happen when manually adding a new student but it would be very helpful if it could also be shown when importing New Student Records

    23 votes

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  18. Teacher Conference Scheduler - Parent Improvements

    Parents are very frustrated with scheduling conferences when they have multiple teachers for one student (for example High School Parents). There is not a way to see all slots available so they are jumping back and forth between teachers; scheduling unscheduling and rescheduling to fit the slots close to each other

    47 votes

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  19. Fee Management Fee Activity Screen

    Remove the description and put comment on the screen instead because description does not convey any new information but comment does

    14 votes

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  20. Master Absence Report Include Student Status

    It would be very helpful if the Master Absence Report included the ability to exclude Inactive Students. Our HS Principal uses this report and since she uses a range the results include both active and inactive students.

    31 votes

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