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Student Management Suite

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  1. Ability to drop all classes for a student on the student Profile Schedule screen

    In our elementary schools, we have many students who start with one teacher and have several classes assigned from that one teacher using a scheduling group. When that student changes teachers each class has to be dropped manually on the Current Scheduling area on the student profile. The ability to choose to drop all and enter one effective date would be great, or at least the same screen as when adding classes and entering effective dates for each class on one screen would work. The same as when using the schedule all button on the add course button. This would…

    14 votes

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    3 comments  ·  Scheduling  ·  Admin →
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  2. Preferred name available in Point of Sales System.

    We have transgender students that come through the lunch line. It is quite confusing and embaressing when a student comes through the line that has not legally changed their name yet. We need a be able to have a better system than using the critical wanding messages that we use for food allergies.

    7 votes

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  3. Allow for Family access configuration of conferences enable/disable to have date start and stop option

    Allow for Family access configuration of conferences enable/disable to have date start and stop option with times.

    7 votes

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  4. Run Attendance Totals for Previous Years

    WS\ST\TB\AT\AT (Students > Student Profile > Attendance)
    It would be helpful if we could click on the Totals button and run attendance totals for previous years. Currently, we can only run it for the current year.

    11 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Attendance  ·  Admin →
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  5. "Password of the Day" for Fix Programs hurts productivity

    Skyward has implemented a "password of the day" for whenever anyone needs to use the Fee Fix program. Each day we need to use it, we need to reach out to Skyward via a service call and wait for their response. This hinders productivity as the response can take several hours to arrive. It also places unnecessary workload and stress on the Skyward customer service representatives. Ideally, there should be a way to automatically distribute this password to specific users (ones with system-wide access, perhaps?) who can divulge it to their coworkers as needed.

    26 votes

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  6. Allow the family to enter both Parents on one screen. Many times only one guardain gets entered in the enrollment process.

    It makes more sense to me to be able to add both guardians in one screen instead of having to click a button to add a second guardian to a family. Most people do not understand how the family set up is so they fill in one parent and move to the next step. We spend a lot of time following up with parents because they do not take the time to read the buttons.

    10 votes

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  7. Add new field to Data Mining

    There is a new field that was added to Skyward that is not available in Data Mining. The field is on the E/W screen - Exclude from EOYA. I need to see how many of our students are not marked before we do the state upload but because this field is not available from Data Mining, I cannot get what I need.

    6 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Data Mining  ·  Admin →
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  8. Option to use a Processing List for Mass Delete Portfolio Attachments

    We would like the option to use a Processing List when running the Mass Delete Portfolio Attachments.

    11 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Student  ·  Admin →
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  9. Automated email notification when a new document is uploaded

    It would be great to have an automated email notification sent to a selected staff member(s) when a parent uploads a new document to NSOE or Online Registration.

    12 votes

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  10. Enter in the Change History address information for existing students.

    When we have KG's WITH EXISTING SIBLINGS and the parent enters in an address that is not what is on the existing siblings address info, but NSOE links the students together and updates the existing students address......can this be made and entry in the Change History tab? An address change on the existing student with the program of NSOE would be great.

    6 votes

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  11. Ed-FI STN search

    We would love to be able to search by STN (Indiana State ID number) in the Ed-Fi Data by Subject area (WS\SR\EF\EF\BS). Often that's the only identifying information we have when working with state data reporting, so it would cut out a step (ie looking up the STN in student profile or elsewhere).

    19 votes

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  12. Course Requests by Endorsement

    It would be nice for students to be able to request courses for online registration based on Endorsements. Please add the ability to set up course wish groups for online course requests by Endorsement.

    26 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Scheduling  ·  Admin →
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  13. Email Notification for Student Name Change

    When students have been adopted and last name or other names change, send out an email notice so that those who work with the student are aware of the change. If there could also be a way to type in the 'old' name and be redirected to the 'new' name, that would be very helpful as well.

    8 votes

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  14. Automated email for demographic changes

    We would like to see the option added for automated emails for demographic changes which would include changes of the following:
    Date of Birth
    Gender
    Social Security Number
    Ethnicity
    Race

    7 votes

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  15. Mass Add Staff to an Entity

    Hello:

    Having a utility that will Mass Add and then Mass Delete staff to an entity would be extremely beneficial. For example our district has a separate entity for summer school (Entity 600) and each year we have different staff members that teach and participate in summer school and they need to be added to that entity. It would be extremely helpful if, each year we could mass add those individuals to the summer school entity and then at the completion of summer school mass delete them. Currently we have to individually add each staff member to the entity which…

    9 votes

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  16. Web Login ability to Online Enrollment Users

    For NSOE, it would be helpful if an admin was able to Web Login to the Online Enrollment Users accounts so we can assist remotely with application issues.

    Currently, I cut and paste email and password info in to a new login in screen to log in as them to help them with steps in the process.

    16 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Enrollment  ·  Admin →
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  17. Replace Gender with Gender Identity in the header area within Student Management

    In Student Management there is the ability for users to pick fields (customize) they want displayed on the header area. Please either add Gender Identity as an option or replace (preferred option) the current Gender field option with the Gender Identity field.

    9 votes

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  18. Grade Level Visible When Posting Grades

    Our school posts grades for seniors days before posting for the rest of the school. While you can change the display options in the gradebook to see a student's grade level, once you go in to post grades, the grade level is no longer visible. It would be great if it would carry over so then teachers would know which students are seniors and who they have to post grades for.

    7 votes

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  19. Home Language Survey

    Please add the Home Language Survey data from the Special Programs area to the Data Mining area so it can be reported on.

    10 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Data Mining  ·  Admin →
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  20. NSOE - Unsubmitted Application Report

    Hello:

    Our District would like to request an "Unsubmitted Application Report" in the NSOE module. This would be extremely helpful for when guardians start an application and "think" they have finished it but actually have not. We had a guardian who started an application in February but didn't complete some of the custom forms but still thought he had completed the application. He finally stopped in at the school in May to find out why the application was not approved when it was never submitted so we did not know about the enrollment. How can we create an "Unsubmitted Application…

    10 votes

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