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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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Student Management Suite

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  1. Family Access Absence Request Approval Email and Denial Email

    When an absence request has been approved or denied it would be helpful if the response entered was emailed to the family, so they are aware that the request was approved or denied and if denied we could tell them why and how to get it approved. Many parents will not be going back into Family Access to see if their request was denied.

    5 votes

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  2. SE I-4 Form -Add Merge Field for 'Times per Frequency' -Part B & C/ Code Table & Merge Field for -Part A

    Please consider adding a merge field for the times per frequency field that is on the intermediate screen for the I-4 Program Summary form. Also, it would make more sense to add the possibility of further defining that field. Currently, we are only allowed to enter a numeric value and we can not define that the numeric value is for example, "minutes". Ex: we can set the frequency to be 2x monthly and the times per frequency to "20" but we would still have to manually add the word "minutes" to the form because there is no other way to…

    1 vote

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  3. Print course on transcript, but NOT on report card

    We would like the option to print courses on student transcripts, but NOT on report cards. Right now, that is an all or nothing option. Can you please separate these options so that we can choose to print on one or the other?

    This would be extremely helpful for our Dual Enrollment courses that do not need to be printed on student report cards (they were not taken at our school), but still need to be printed on transcripts.

    2 votes

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  4. Date for Waiting for Approval IEP or Approval of IEP's & Evals

    It would be great if a date could be entered or auto filled for when an IEP/Eval is marked as "Waiting For Approval" or "Approved". So then you would not only know who marked it, but the date they did it.

    1 vote

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  5. At Risk Status needed in Skybuild Export

    In Skybuild, there is a field called At-Risk Status which has been verified by Skyward that it doesn't work or attach to any data. Everyone is listed as N (no). This needs to report the student's current At-Risk Status.

    2 votes

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  6. District and School Accountable Dropdown

    It would greatly help if the District Accountable and School Accountable fields would be drop down/lookup fields similar to the Res Dist field. It is easy to mistype the codes.
    This is similar to this request.
    https://sms.uservoice.com/forums/912337-student-management-suite/suggestions/42204106-district-code-dropdown-list

    7 votes

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  7. Mark Online Registration as Verified when Completing New Student Enrollment Mid-Year

    It would be nice to be able to turn on a feature to auto mark as verified when families complete New Student Enrollment mid-year. I have to go in and manually mark them all as verified. Thank you.

    2 votes

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  8. Enter Guardian in Online Registration

    A way to add a guardian to Online Registration will be helpful. Thank you!

    1 vote

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  9. Add Foster Care to Export File Builder

    Inside the SkyBuild under Special Programs there is no ability to pull the data inside the Foster Care Fields on a student's profile. We need to send this data out for some software/applications and it is not there. It has other programs like Homeless and LEP but Foster Care is missing. This would be super beneficial to be able export our student data in the SkyBuild.

    3 votes

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  10. Scan UPC bar codes in Food Service from Item Master

    We would like to be able to scan UPC codes in the Food Service Cashier area. Right now we can scan the 4 character barcodes for the items in the Item Master list. I would like the characters/digits in the name to be increased to 15 so that Product UPCs could be added to the Master List and scanned more easily for Ala Carte.

    1 vote

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  11. allow the Skyward App to scan bar code

    Allow the Skyward app on the phone to have the capabilities to connect to the scanner so that it can scan ID badges (barcode) to pull up student information.

    2 votes

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  12. CRDC - sport - team

    I'm guessing activities are primarily set up so coaches can communicate with the athletes. It would be helpful if there was a Sport dropdown where we could select the sport that the activity is tied to.
    Then Skyward could program how many are in that sport as well as how many are in each team.

    16 votes

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  13. Report showing Letter Grade vs. Percentage

    We would like this report because we have ran into times where teachers do grade changes after terms have ended and when Admin accept these changes there are times that the percentage and letter grade do not match up. This would make it easier for us to identify the students who's do not match.

    1 vote

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  14. Initial Placement Consent Page

    Is it possible to insert a Page Break above the PARENT CONSENT/PERMISSION FOR INITIAL PLACEMENT on the P-1. I have to go into each form for every initial evaluation and input a page break so the signature page is a separate page.

    2 votes

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  15. DOB on Medicaid Form

    The service providers have asked that the students date of birth be on the Medicaid Consent Form. Can this be added?

    1 vote

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  16. Medicaid consent form.

    Currently the form not only does not prefill a contact person at the bottom, it doesn't allow you to type in a name.

    1 vote

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  17. Enlarge Copy and Paste Text Box

    Is there any way to make the text box larger with using the copy and paste feature.

    1 vote

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  18. Mass importing the student pictures on an IHP

    On our IHPs for students, there is a merge field for the student picture. Because new pictures were uploaded mid year, when the nurse prints this plan now, no picture shows up on the plan. They can go in manually on each plan and "reimport" the merge field but with some schools having over 100 plans this can be a tedious process since they have already done this beginning of this year. Is there a way to "mass" update a merge field so school/nurse can see the student's picture?

    1 vote

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  19. Skybuild - Family Data Type

    While working with Skyward support, it was determined that a Skybuild cannot make a file export with 1 row per family.

    Skyward support - "If we had a family data type we could group based on the family but since we don't that will not be an option. "

    Example use case -- our family news letters are distributed from another web services, and we send the the company an SFTP Skybuild file that contains the names and emails of our guardians based on the building that their student(s) are actively enrolled. The current issue is that we can either…

    2 votes

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  20. Customize Category Colors in gradebook

    Teachers using our secondary gradebook would like to be able to customize their category colors within their own gradebook. Currently, I can change the colors, but it would change them for the whole building and not everyone wants that. It would be useful if they could just do their own within their own gradebook.

    8 votes

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