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Student Management Suite

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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Periods set up to be alpha-numeric

    In order to allow more flexibility and clarity we would like to see the period set up changed to be alpha-numeric. We would like the ability to name periods B01 or R01 which gives more flexibility in naming the period. This will help us with the flexibility of our Friday schedule which has all the B day and R day classes meeting. This would allow Friday to be: B01 R01 B02 R02 B03 R03 B04 R04 instead of periods 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 which has no reference to the order that the classes will meet in…

    14 votes

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  6. Administered by Field to Allow Parent NameKey

    We would like to have the 'Administered by' field searchable for not only Staff but also by Parent name. We occasionally will have a parent administer meds in school.
    Parent names would also be available to choose from not limited to Staff.

    22 votes

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  7. NSOE Application Submitted email to parent

    NSOE has an automatic window that pops up once the parent has submitted the completed NSOE application. We can alter the text within that window and expect the parent to read it however it would be beneficial to have the system automatically send an email directly to the parent.

    On the Automated Email Configuration setup screen it would be great to have a "Application Submitted to District" option that we can edit with reminder of next steps for parents to take i.e. contact the school registrar etc.

    46 votes

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  8. Provide Skylert portal for staff and students

    We have staff members wishing to update their contact information in Skylert but are unable to do so. There should be a way for staff members to have access to a Skylert tab similar to what guardians are able to do now and be able to update their phone numbers and alerting categories all in one place.
    Students should also have this features. With the mass increase in student cell phone and the increased need to provide rapid communication to everyone we would like to be able to contact students via Skylert so we would like the students to be…

    34 votes

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  9. Would like the Deposit Number to show on this repo

    Would like the Deposit Number to show on the Payment by Check Number Report and to have a total at the end of the Amount Column. It would also be nice if the name of the entity is at the top of the report so you know what building it belongs to.
    This would be most helpful when trying to balance records at the end of a month to balance to our manual credit card receipts. We have several different systems we have to balance to and this would speed up the process.

    25 votes

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  10. Please Secure Staff Confidential Data

    I'm requesting that the data in WS\SF\SF be secured with more options of specific info to secure/provide access to as opposed to the current option of allowing access to all staff data or no staff data. We are using the parent conference scheduler feature this year and in order for our office personnel to be able to schedule conferences when parents call or stop in we need to allow the office personnel access to staff data. Currently when a person is given access to staff data this includes access to social security numbers birthdates and phone numbers. Office personnel do…

    30 votes

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  11. add Dr. Note Required student indicator

    We use wanding to check in students arriving late to school. They enter their ID# on the keypad and then the security personnel check them in. The issue we have is that if a student is required to have a Dr. Note in order to enter school the student indicator for that is not visible on the wanding screen that the security folks see.
    Please add the ability to view the student indicators on the wanding screen.

    26 votes

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  12. Military family flag/pseudo change in FA

    When adding new students and on the general profile page there is a newer field for yes/no/not applicable for military families. We do track this info on new students but would like that info on all students. We would like to have this flag added to the pseudo change screen set up in family access so families can update this info on their own. These is a military field listed but that is for mailing to the military not if they are a military family. I've attached a screen shot of similar field setups.

    29 votes

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  13. Parent background checks

    Please add a date completed field to the background check.
    We are to update them every 3 years. This would be most helpful!

    17 votes

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  14. Clone button for Evaluations

    While there's a clone button for IEP forms there is NONE for evaluation forms. It will make their life easier if there could be a clone button for evaluation forms too.

    26 votes

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  15. Display comments when application is not disabled

    We would like to be able to post informational comments in family access for parents or students to see under the various applications. However you can only use the comments feature if the application is disabled. Example would be explain how to read or interpret the test scores so when parents would understand the data posted in Skyward.
    We would like to be able to post informational comments in family access for parents or students to see under the various applications. However you can only use the comments feature if the application is disabled. Example would be explain how to…

    11 votes

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  16. Texas STAAR 3-8 Report

    The additional Texas STAAR EOC Report WS\OF\CA\TS\RE is a very useful report for all secondary campuses is there any updates that will address a similar report for STAAR 3-8 Exams. This will facilitate analysis of student test scores as they move from campus to campus and or target for tutoring. The negative impact is that we have to use a separate third party software to assist with the analysis of student score data.
    Standardized testing will always be in Texas this tool will facilitate the campus personal with score analysis and student placement

    11 votes

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  17. Fee Management enhancement(?)

    My understanding is that this is because we bill by family and not student. We prefer to have parents pay activity fees via eFunds. If a parent pays 3 seasons of sports fees via eFunds prior to assigning the fees in FM eFunds then automatically assigns and pays the fee and then at a later time when we run the mass assign fee Utility the paid fees aren't recognized another (duplicate) fee is created and they now have unpaid fees. Using that same scenario and having the parents pay the fee with check or cash assign the fee manually and…

    27 votes

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  18. Report to list which guardians have opted in

    Would like a report to list which guardians have opted in using the new feature "Receive Health Office Visit Notifications". A simple report perhaps with limits by entity and by date to list all who have opted in or all who have not opted in. Export to excel or print. Sort options by date by guardian name by entity by student name. Checkboxes on the report to show which delivery method they've selected (email fam access both)

    14 votes

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  19. Mass Add Endorsement and Option Utility

    I would like to recommend adding a Mass Add Endorsement and Option Utility per grade level. I have to mass add the Multidisciplinary Endorsement and Option #1 to all of our current 8th graders and right now We would like this one updated to request a utility that includes ranges and by individual but also includes a processing list option. We are looking for functionality to match graduation requirements/career plans.

    30 votes

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  20. Hide "Absent" column in Family/Student Access

    Our middle school mentioned that atudents are sometimes confused by the "Absent" column in the student gradebook display (picture below) within the "Gradebook" screen of Student Access. This screen appears when the student clicks on a class grade. When the "Absent" column shows a student as "Excused" some students interpret this to mean the assignment is also excused. Teachers are marking it as missing however the display seems to be causing an issue. It would be nice to be able to hide this column from displaying. Provide in the Student Access Entity Configuration screen the ability to suppress the "Absent"…

    24 votes

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