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  1. Parent conference confirmation emails - include guardian phone number field

    With COVID making conferences virtual instead of in person, our conference scheduler will be setting up scheduled phone calls. It would be very helpful to be able to include the parent/guardian phone number in the confirmation email to confirm that as the contact number.

    9 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Conferences  ·  Admin →
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  2. Wellness Screener changes

    • Ability to turn on/off based on entity and by grade level
    o We might be bringing students back into the buildings based on grade level. Doesn’t make sense for all parents district wide to see the screener if they are still 100% remote.
    o We have an Area Career Center as part of our setup and they may not be moving to the Skyward Wellness Screener.
    • Ability to add to questions or change questions
    • Ability for reports to have the option to print for students not in their default entity
    o This is due to the Area…

    6 votes

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  3. Ability to autogenerate both usernames AND email addresses

    When defining the user Login format, if I want it to be an email address, I apparently can NOT also generate email addresses. If Skyward didn't hard-code the '@' sign into the "Automatically Generate Email Addresses" option, then this would not be a problem.

    Remove the hard-coded '@' sign from email auto-generation, and also expand the "text" parts to allow for additional character length.

    6 votes

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  4. Be able to view scheduled conferences under student profile

    It would be great if a conference tab was added under student profile so that schools could see the scheduled conference without having to run a report or going to the staff table. Being able to schedule there would be helpful also.

    11 votes

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  5. Automated Emails for Failed Wellness Responses

    It would be helpful to be able to setup automated emails that notify a particular staff member(s) when a failed Wellness Screening response is submitted, rather than always needing to login to Skyward and check the report.

    12 votes

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  6. It would be very helpful for our secretaries/registrars if the District Category code could be added to the Day Summary report. Thansk!

    It would be very helpful for our secretaries/registrars if the District Category code could be added to the Day Summary report. Thanks!

    14 votes

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  7. Allow Message center to send to specific Student Groups

    Due to COVID reasons many different groups of students are in one classroom. Group A on different days than Group B but still in the same course. It would be nice if the teacher had the ability, if they setup student groups, to send to just those student groups.
    Add an option under send to multiple classes to change to send to students if they are setup. This will then show a list of all the different groups along with the class they are in.

    13 votes

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  8. Indicators in Office Attendance

    We are using student indicators to quickly identify our virtual students. Can this view option please be added to attendance day summary.

    40 votes

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  9. attendance edit comments

    We would like the option to allow teachers to edit their own comments once they have saved comments.
    Our elementary schools are set up with 2 attendance periods. When the teacher enters attendance in period 1, it populates period 2.
    This year with COVID we have online teachers. They can change attendance type for period 2 after the initial save, but cannot modify comments for period 2.

    7 votes

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  10. skylert attendance export (COVID related enhancement)

    With distance learning we need the ability to pull the Skylert attendance export for the previous day's absences. We allow students to work throughout the day so teachers can adjust attendance the following morning. We'd like to continue using our automated attendance calls via School Messenger but have them turned off because there is no option from this area (WS\AD\SL) to run the export on the previous day. Please add a field that would allow us to select the previous day.

    9 votes

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  11. Method of Instruction Report For Teachers

    Teachers need to be able to print a report that displays a student's Method of Instruction. Maybe just add Method of Instruction on the Class Roster report?

    13 votes

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  12. COVID Wellness Screening customize

    COVID Wellness Screening customize the fields according to each schools needs.

    15 votes

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  13. Add filter for Staff Wellness Screening to show only Active Staff

    Add filter for Staff Wellness Screening to show only Active Staff on District 000 entity.

    8 votes

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  14. Returning Student Registration via Mobile App

    Can you add the functionality of Returning Student Registration via the Mobile App? I have a lot of parents who have requested this.

    13 votes

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  15. Add the ability to send parent notifications for attendance entered for prior dates as well as today

    With remote learning attendance, corrections can be made up to a week later. We need the ability for Family Access notifications to include not just attendance entered today for today, but attendance entered today for a prior date.

    14 votes

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  16. Teacher - Mass Enter Attendance - Virtual Present

    Indiana teachers who teach students virtually must now enter Virtual Present each day for each student. Since Skyward is hard coded to mark students Present, it will lead to a great deal of inaccurate data.
    We can now add additional columns for teachers on their attendance page.
    It would be great if teachers could click on the Virtual Present header to have it auto fill Virtual Present for all students.
    To add some complexity, we also are currently in Stage 4. This means 1/2 of the students are virtual Mon and Tue, the other 1/2 are virtual Thu and Fri…

    10 votes

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    Thank you for the feedback! With the release of June Addendum 9 (10/1/2020), PR 4495470 has added a Select All option within the header of each attendance option/column setup for teacher use on the Attendance by Name screen. With this, teachers can click on the link to mass apply the appropriate option to all students, make any minor modifications as needed, and save their class attendance.

    In addition, PR 4506708 was completed in Addendum 9 to make the MOI column sortable. In the event you have Method of Instruction records set to differentiate these students, teachers can sort these students together.

    I hope these new options assist teachers in their daily attendance entry, but please let us know any other feedback on the topic. Thank you!

  17. Create an online assignment in EA+ that can update attendance automatically

    We need a quick and easy way for teachers in remote learning to take attendance. If we had the ability to create online assignments that updated attendance in the teacher gradebook automatically, it would save so much time. We could use a special code for this purpose so teachers could tell if the student has attendance by submission of an assignment vs. teacher manually taking attendance.

    17 votes

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  18. Add a way for teachers to adjust the default for attendance

    Currently, the gradebook attendance defaults to being present. Virtual teachers now have to mark students virtual each day to be counted present. It would be nice if teachers could change the default so they would all show virtual instead of present or have a way to mark all students at once so you don't have to click on each student individually. Thanks!!

    14 votes

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  19. Need entity settings for Student Wellness screener

    We need entity controls for parent/student ability to submit. We would not want elementary kids submitting their own screener but we may allow students to do it at secondary.

    13 votes

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  20. Need to be able to populate attendance based on Student Wellness screener fails/blanks

    We need an attendance link/update utility between the wellness screen and the attendance screen. We already have a "failed screener" absence reason. We'd love to auto-update attendance as screener fails are entered with that code. That way a teacher who is taking attendance in any period can see if a screener-failed student is still present in class and ask them to head to the office/nurse to leave school.

    11 votes

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