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Student Management Suite

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  1. Have a Mass Assign Course Fees

    Have the ability to mass change the course fees for the new year. After copying current to future the amounts usually need changed. Instead of entering them one by one have the option to mass change the amount. For example our 20 English courses have the same fee amount. Instead of going into each individual record have a mass change to a set amount.

    3 votes

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  2. Food Service Reporting and Proc Lists

    It would be wonderful if there was a way to create a Processing List of Food Service Payors (either inactive or active - ability to choose). This would be helpful if you need to use this payor list in other areas of the software. Currently, I needed this list of Inactive payors with balances to find out when the family left the district. It doesn't work to use data mining as there are multiple siblings and multiple withdrawal dates, etc.

    2 votes

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  3. Mass Delete Pseudo Approval in Family Access

    We need to be able to delete prior year pseudo approvals for enrollment in Family Access. While the filter works to show only those waiting approval the system is bogged down with thousands of changes from past years.

    13 votes

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  4. perfect attendance reports for specific periods ~ to compare what we have to submit to the state ~

    There seems to be ideas about this that are being ignored , I know each year we call about the submission we have to do for perfect attendance but cant check perfect attendance until we get the list of kids from the upload of the submission and have to check kids one by one . It seems skyward should have something that we could run by period for our secondary campuses that would elevate checking one by one

    1 vote

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  5. In Future Scheduling, Request Processing to allow Multiple Course Requests of the Same Course

    We have students who take multiple courses of the same course in a year. For example, Advanced Ag Mechanics, Developmental Instruction, Online College, etc. When building their schedule, it would be great if it allowed you to request the class more than once. Since it doesn't you do get the desired accuracy out of Auto Scheduler.

    8 votes

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  6. Stripe

    Have Skyward integrate with Stripe. We were told to purchase RevTrak for the Food Services module and then now we have to purchase the Fee Module for a separate fee. Please integrate with Stripe as Stripe has full API capabilities.

    1 vote

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  7. Attachments in Online Registration

    2 suggestions for attachments in Online Registration:
    1. Allow for some attachments to be required and others to be optional
    2. Allow an attachment to be uploaded for a family so that it applies to all students in the family.

    11 votes

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  8. Processing New Student Online Enrollment application, allow change order of Emergency Contacts

    Scenario: A parent submits a new student application and fails to check the emergency contact box for either/both guardians.
    During processing of application, if the registrar then checks the emergency contact box after, they are added after any other emergency contacts in the order added.

    We would like the ability to change the emergency contact order at time of processing a new application so the registrar can appropriately have the correct order prior to completing the application and not have to go back and change after processing.

    We do allow guardians to change the order at time of yearly registration.

    5 votes

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  9. Textbook Quick Entry continuously scan without switching between fields

    Having the ability to continuously scan without clicking between the student and scan code fields.

    1 vote

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  10. I would like to be able to attach a picture to a fee.

    Having the ability to add an attachment to a fee (Chromebook repair fee, book damage..).

    6 votes

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  11. allow overlapping enrollments

    In certain scenarios, it would be useful to be able to set certain Withdrawal codes to be able to allow overlapping enrollments. For example, if an enrollment was created and submitted to our State Reporting authority in error, we may need to retain a record of that erroneous enrollment, but would need to overlap a new, corrected enrollment.

    1 vote

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  12. Create Mass Add for Portfolio Highlights

    We add highlights for all of our HS students. Most of the time we add the same highlight to several hundred students. Currently they must be entered one student at a time. Having a mass add with the ability to utilize a processing list would be a huge time saver.

    1 vote

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  13. Family Access Missing Assignments

    When we get a new student in our school the assignments that were given prior to their enrollment show up as missing assignments. Parents/Students get confused or upset about the number of missing assignments that then show up. Past assignments should not show up for new students that enroll into a entity.

    4 votes

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  14. USE OF TEAMS IN REPORTS-ATTENDANCE

    In Day Summary Report I need to print this out by Team but can only print it out by grade. If you can add the option to print by Team it would save me a lot of work. Right now I have to use a Processing List for each Team and we have 10 Teams. There are other reports that we can't use for Teams as well that if added would be great and save time and trouble.

    2 votes

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  15. Family Access Username Sync to NameKey

    Automatically update username for parents in family access when their name is changed and they are assigned a new namekey. This would help keep the namekey/username in sync.

    14 votes

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  16. Course Requests Configuration by Grade Level

    In the Course Request Configuration in Student Access, we can choose the option to Use Course Request Time Periods to Determine if a Window is Open, and set up the time period by Grade Level. This option is helpful, but we need to also Limit the Number of Requested Credits by grade level. Sometimes the request windows can overlap.

    3 votes

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  17. clone processing list

    I would like to be able to clone a processing list. Many times we need to use the majority of a list but take a few kids out and it's time consuming to have to manually add them all again.

    12 votes

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  18. Blank-out Student Search

    It would be beneficial to have the student fields blank-out when an attempt to search for a student using the Student Search yields no results. Currently the first alpha student in the system and their associated data displays. If a user is not paying attention, which can and does occur frequently in a large district, an incorrect student is updated.

    8 votes

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  19. Add add' "Printing Option'" to the Staff Information Report (WS/SF/RP/SI)

    REQUEST:
    • For ‘staff information report (WS/SF/RP/SI)’ add an additional Printing Option to have room location of teacher/staff, also, print on report. Want to be able to see building AND room teacher/staff is assigned

    4 votes

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  20. at risk lep

    Currently, the Mass Generate At-Risk Identification Records utility allows the use of Criteria Codes to mass generate At Risk records for students with a LEP record. This is very helpful but the utility will also code if you have students in a Dual Language Program that are not LEP but are participating as At Risk. These non-LEP students have a LEP record, as required, for funding purposes.

    I propose that an additional "sub-criteria" option is created for At Risk Reason Code 10 - Is of Limited English Proficiency. The "sub-criteria" should allow districts to select from the list of Parental…

    1 vote

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