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Student Management Suite

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  1. online registration

    In Online Registration add a checkbox for "Needing to make a family change". I know we need paperwork when a family change happens, but if we could make it that the family notifies us by checking that box so we can contact them instead of completing that step and verifying it, making us think no family change has happened or is needed.

    9 votes

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  2. Add Graduation Date to transcripts

    Add the field Graduation Date to be added as an object on custom transcripts. We are using a free form text box to add the graduation date.

    4 votes

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  3. Mass Fee Creation: Credits and Waivers BUG

    Our district participates in a Federal program that gives us ESSER funds that pays for certain fees on book bills for our students. Our Superintendent wants the fees displayed and that they were covered by these funds for parents to see. Skyward told us to use the Credits and Waivers utility under Mass Fee Creation. This worked fine on our first year last year, however this year we ran into major issues. We clone our fees every school year so they are the same. For some reason when we ran the utility this year if a student had an unpaid…

    1 vote

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  4. Add student PA Secure ID to Keystone Exam Report

    In order to upload info into the PGT Act 158 Portal, student ID is required. The keystone exam report, under test score reports, only gives the student name. I tried data-mining, but the format of the Keystone Exam Report is much closer to what is needed.

    2 votes

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  5. E/W Residence County included in rollover

    Please include Residence County from E/W record in the year-end rollover. It is a required field, so we have to update each student.

    4 votes

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  6. county

    Please clone Residence County in the E/W record when doing year-end roll-over. It is a required field, so we have to update every student.

    4 votes

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  7. Add TSDS ID to Texas Transcript and Add to Custom Transcripts.

    Add TSDS ID to Transcript and Custom Transcript Fields. The field is available in Qmlativ and should be included in SMS.

    10 votes

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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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.

    14 votes

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  11. 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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  12. 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.

    9 votes

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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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