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Student Management Suite

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  1. Interactive Scheduling Board Display-Column 1/Row 1 Displays

    When looking at the Interactive Scheduling Board, the top row and the first column are repeated. It would be extremely if we can have the option to lock them, just like you can in Excel and they will scroll with you instead of repeating.

    11 votes

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  2. Mass Assign SAT/ACT/TSIA Reimbursement

    In Texas we are required to indicate students for whom we have received reimbursement from the State for an SAT/ACT/TSIA exam. That needs to be a field that we can mass assign so we are able to quickly add that notification when we receive our school day test scores. Currently, you have to go into each individual student and add the indicator.

    8 votes

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  3. NSOE

    It would be extremely convenient if, when denying an NSOE application after giving the reason for denial, the guardian could then have the option to make corrections to the existing application and then resubmit it rather then having to start the entire application process over again.

    20 votes

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  4. Message Center - allow TIME to be included when posting to Student and Family Access Message Screen

    When creating a message in the message center, there are 2 options, include in Student / Family Access and email. With the email you can specify a date AND time when it will be sent. But with Posting to Student / Family Access you only get a date.

    Please allow the same TIME option to be included for WHEN it will post to the student / family access page too. We might send an email at 6 pm and we do not want "early" notice also being posted to the message wall in Student / Family Access. The messages should…

    16 votes

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  5. Add Effective Date on Staff Maintenance

    Hello: We often get communication from our HR Department indicating an employee exit with a specific date. Typically that date is in the future. It would be extremely convenient if and effective date could be added to the Staff Entity Maintenance area to flag the exact date that the staff member should be flagged to Inactive. This would eliminate having to "Save" HR notifications and then remembering to inactive or activate the staff member based on information from HR.

    14 votes

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  6. moi

    Please add MOI as a field for setting recipient ranges in Message Center. There are many times where we have different messages for virtual vs in person students, and it would be immensely helpful to be able to designate recipients according to their MOI.

    13 votes

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  7. Consecutive Attendance Days Report

    Add the option for Today - # Days to the Consecutive Attendance day Report so it can be scheduled as a daily task to send to Principal. We have 13 schools and running it daily for each school is very time consuming. I was hoping to schedule tasks.

    8 votes

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  8. It'd be nice to have the student status tied to the E/W records. T

    Sometimes we have are made aware that a student will be withdrawing in a few days or a week, and we'd like to enter that withdraw record with the future date as we find out about it, but still allow the student to be active until that date hits. Same with enter dates. Sometime they don't start for a week or two but it'd be nice to push through the enrollment and have that student go active on the future date.

    21 votes

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  9. Canvas/Skyward integration, remove missing mark that was previously synced

    Work with Canvas integration so that when a previously "unscored and marked as zero" assignment is actually scored and then resynced, the "Missing" mark is removed; currently, the grade is transferred but the missing mark is not removed in Skyward and has to be removed by assignment, and/or by student.

    9 votes

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  10. Add an option for Multiple Dates in Message center

    Have an option to add multiple dates for a message or a date range. Or allow for a scheduled task.

    6 votes

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  11. Allow Skyward App Parent/Guardian Users to Attach Files through Add Absence Request

    Add the functionality in the Skyward App (Family Access) so users can add attachments when using the "Add Absence Request". This will cut down on parents needing to separately email doctor notes or other required attendance documents or send the document with their student. This will also reduce the amount of work that is needed by attendance clerks or decrease the response time to updating absences.

    14 votes

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  12. Special programs reminder on entry/withdrawal

    Currently, in the entry/withdrawal, if a student has a special program tab, it prompts us to add or drop when a student is adding or dropping. There are two new tabs under the Special Programs that do not have this "reminder". It is the SAAP and the Method of Instruction. It would be nice if it would automatically que us to remember to close out those records.

    17 votes

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  13. Expand Language Translator

    Would it be possible to have the capability to translate more in the Language Translator? I would like to see areas for translation expanded to include such areas as the heading on the report card, such as: Course, Earned, Absences, Tardies (whatever headings districts may use). Also, we show Cumulative GPA, Year to Date GPA, Cumulative Earned Credits, Year to Date GPA Credits on the report card. Additional information we show: Grade, Advisor and Term. These are many areas which remain in English. We would like to have a more detailed Spanish translation of the report card than mostly an…

    6 votes

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  14. Selected Grades Report: add Student email and parent email address fields.

    Would like to have Student emaill address and parent email address to the Selected grades report to make it easier to identity who to contact when we run the report. We run this for a D/F list and then contact the parent.

    7 votes

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  15. Add more options than No Count and Missing

    Add more options than No Count and Missing. See image.

    6 votes

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  16. Add extract comments to SkyBuild for why you are extracting a field, or how it was built

    When coding some complicated extracts, or adding numerical filters it would be nice to add a comment to the line to remind you 'why' you are extracting that field, or how a compound (group) field is being extracted that way.

    IE - 'Building Student Login ID from 1 char of FN, then Student ID for a A01234567890 formatting login. OR 'Default student password is MI or 'N' if no MI plus DOB in MM-DD-YYY format for a A01-02-2003 formatted password.

    OR - Add a large open textbox, optional of course, at the top where you can add things like, Who…

    9 votes

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  17. Communication to families

    I would like to see an option for parents to select their perferred way of communicating with the school. E-mail, phone, text, etc.

    8 votes

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  18. Allow Method of Instruction as a sort running Student Schedules

    It would be great to have the Method of Instruction option when running student schedules to allow printing of only in-person learners. We are having our in-person learners coming into the building on Dec.

    10 votes

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  19. NSOE change field name of SSN to Student's SSN

    Could you change the field Social Security Number to Student's Social Security Number? It's right under Mom's Maiden Name and often our parents enter their SSN instead of the student's SSN. That would help with confusion.

    8 votes

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  20. Add a Language of communication option

    Offer Language of communication option for Parents to choose.
    English or Spanish or both
    Also to be used in Custom Standard based report cards.

    8 votes

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