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  1. 504 Indicator

    Our special education department has requested that when hovering over the 504 indicator that the student's impairment is shown for quick reference.

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  2. Data Mining Club Membership

    TN has added CTSO membership ID and Chapter ID as part as the requirements to the state. Can these two items be added to data mining to more easily pull a report?

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  3. Clone Section 504 Data (excluding Dates) in Special Programs - Section 504

    When entering the Section 504 Data in Special Programs for each individual student, it would be nice to have a Clone Tab so it would clone all the information as far disabilities and Student Accommodations. Most of this information stays the same each year; but dates would need to change.

    3 votes

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  4. Add the ability to pull the discipline detail report into and excel file.

    Add the ability to pull the Discipline Detail Report into an excel file.

    We use the predefined comments to better track the types of offenses causing the discipline action. (Ie: Dress Code Violation, Smoking/Vape) Although I have a datamine set up, if I could pull the same information in the detail report to excel that would be helpful. Isolating the predefined comments from additional comments the discipline officer may want to enter would also be helpful when filtering to run a count.

    6 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Discipline  ·  Admin →
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  5. Ability to Mass Delete templates by date for Report Cards/Progress Reports

    I have so many Report Card/Progress Report Templates that must be deleted and i have to delete each one. I have one for the report card, one for the upload to the portfolio for RC, one for Progress Reports and one to mass upload to the portfolio. That is possibly 4-6 per year for all 40+ campuses.

    2 votes

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  6. My Students with Health Plans

    Teachers have the wonderful shortcuts to My Students with Disabilities and My Section 504 Students. Health plans are just important for safety reasons, so it'd be great if there were a My Students with Health Plans so teachers can easily see who those students are and quickly get to the plans.

    7 votes

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  7. Regular Ed Teachers (EA+) are unable to see the SE Exit Date & Reason

    We have students that have exited from special education and their student profile is still showing the student services tab and it is confusing to the regular education teachers, because it doesn’t say the student is exited. The student indicator no longer shows, but the student service tab is still there. Would it be possible to show the SE Exit Date & Reason on the EA+ Student Services view?

    3 votes

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  8. Allow assignment groups to be visible by students in Family Access

    It would be great if the students could see the Assignment Groups in Student/Family access. If a teacher organizes their grade book using assignment groups and has them sorted that way, it would be great if the students also saw it that way.

    1 vote

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  9. october 1 count

    For the Oct 1 Child Count, if a student is NOT being counted due to different placements and another school is claiming them, it would be nice to have an "Exclude" button in entry/withdrawal similar to the "Exclude from 3rd Friday Count" button.

    3 votes

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  10. State Reporting Extract Should Report SE Exit with Program Code

    All Student Special Ed information including Program and Disability should report in the collection following the student's SE Exit.

    This is required by the State Of Michigan.

    Currently this information must be manually added to the Maintain area or directly in MSDS.

    Please expedite this change.

    2 votes

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  11. ADD A REFRESH BUTTON ON THE "SUBSTITUTE ASSIGNMENTS" TAB

    ADD A REFRESH BUTTON OR UPDATE BUTTON ON THE 'SUBSTITUTE ASSIGNMENTS '

    2 votes

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  12. Add Activity Description to the Academic Eligibility Report - not just the code

    Add Activity Description to the Academic Eligibility Report - not just the code
    So that when the report is run and sent to the administrative team they know what activity the students are participating in

    7 votes

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  13. Career Plan – Curriculum Quick Entry

    When adding Curriculum > click on “Maintain” > “+ Add Curriculum” at the top of the year column > type the “curriculum key”, counselors are requesting the option to press enter and have it execute the same code as if they clicked on “Save and Add Another” button. Counselors have the curriculum codes memorized and it really, really, really slows them down when they have to stop and click the button every time. This would function similar to the “Request Quick Entry” when scheduling a course under current scheduling.

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    4 votes

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    This screen has a Save and Add Another button on it, with that button you can use the key combination of ALT + A to save the current entered curriculum code and reopen the screen for a new code to be added.

  14. Career Plan – Remove both semester courses with one click

    We are setup with semester courses which are grouped when displayed on the plan. When making a schedule change and removing a course, we click the “drop down” on the group and then “Remove <course> from the plan” twice. We would like to click this once and have it remove both semesters at the same time.

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    2 votes

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  15. Can you please make the following fields mandatory in Educator Access Plus under the teacher to add a new discipline referral? We would lik

    Can you please make the following fields mandatory in Educator Access Plus under the teacher to add a new discipline referral? We would like the Location, Time, and Motivation marked as mandatory fields. Teachers are not filling in this information, and it is very important to us that they enter that information so we can track where incidents are happening the most in the building and their reasons for it. That way if we have to place more teachers in a certain area of the building at a certain time of the day that would be helpful to know.

    3 votes

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  16. Mass set note filter

    We’ve researched this issue, and it turns out that the system is functioning properly. We’ve tested, and users at the middle school (and elementary school) do have access to see the legal notes. However, the list of notes is filtered by date, and the user must update the “Filter Options” to see notes since a specified date. If the filtering date is not far enough back, then older notes are not shown. We’ve confirmed with Skyward Support that there is no “rolling forward” process for notes from year to year or campus to campus. They are tied to the student.…

    6 votes

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  17. Starting grade for Standards Based Gradebook

    Standards based grade books should have the option to transfer in a starting grade like the secondary grade books allow. Many of our students transfer in from schools that do not use standards based report cards. It would be VERY helpful to allow teachers to enter a starting grade so parents have an ACCURATE idea of what their child's grades are. (My district uses both standards and a final percentage in our standards based report cards.)

    3 votes

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  18. I need a feature to prevent grade override within the gradebook similar to that of term grades that I am able to manually lock for new

    Please reference my prior service call 5219641. Since we utilize cumulative grading, we cannot implement a starting term grade and would ideally use option 5 to submit transfer in grades for a new student. Unfortunately, those grades are not locked and our Schoology platform which is utilized by teachers overrides any existing grades entered with any sync activity. As a result, those assignments are automatically defaulted and converted to a no count with no grading. Since teachers often use both platforms, simply making an adjustment to one or the other is not realistic. Teachers would be required to convert and…

    1 vote

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  19. Remove Default Field Mark from Clone Grade Mark Groups for New Year Utility - WS\EA\GB\SE\PS\UT\GY

    To avoid cloning a grade mark group by mistake it would be helpful if none of the fields were marked by default. Currently the Grade Mark Groups field is marked automatically and must be unchecked so it does not clone again. This would force the user to check only the box(es) that need to be cloned.

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  20. Total College Credit Hours for students

    Currently, our counselors are calculating by hand and by looking at the transcript to determine if a student has enough college hours for an Associates upon high school graduation. It would be helpful if these course hours could be data mined out (current and historical classes) or have a report in Skyward that can be used to get this data.

    3 votes

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