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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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Student Management Suite

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  1. Automated email for student enrolling with existing IEP

    We do not utilize the integrated IEP features of SMS 2.0, but would like to have the option to send automated emails to specified staff when a new student enrolls or re-enrolls who has an existing IEP status. This simple alert would allow procedures to begin much more quickly.

    10 votes

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  2. Create Ability to Automatically Generate Letters for Various Reasons

    We would appreciate the ability to generate letters for various reasons that will work like the automated attendance letters. Being able to pull students for various demographic reasons would be ideal.

    8 votes

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  3. ALL REPORTS NEED BIGGER / DARKER FONT

    Whether it is printing out the NSOE forms for a student's record or printing any report in the system - the font size is too small and too light. We need the ability to enlarge font size / change report format so reports and other items printed from SKYWARD are large/dark enough to be read.

    21 votes

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  4. Add Emp. ID from Staff record to Data Mining in areas where Teacher is listed such as Schedule.

    We send the NameID or EmpID to vendors as the field to identify our teachers/staff. Recently, I needed a field that was in Data Mining. I had trouble finding it in SkyBuild so I thought I was going to have to rebuild my extract in Data Mining, I needed Emp ID (NameID) as the key for teachers but Data Mining only had Alphakey to identify the teachers/staff. We don't use that field when sending data to vendors.

    6 votes

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  5. Waitlist for classes currently full

    A feature that would be very helpful for counselors would be a waitlist for students to go on if room in a class opens up. For example, if a student requests to take an elective class but it is currently full if we could have a waitlist feature that we can put students on that either enrolls them in the class if a spot opens or sends us an email letting us know a spot opens. It is too difficult to remember classes that students want to take and if you have multiple counselors working on scheduling you don't know…

    16 votes

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  6. Add notifications of what's new in gradebook for parents (newly graded assignments, etc.)

    These are ideas from a parent in our district that I actually think would be fantastic additions for all parents in Family Access since I, too, once had to keep track of a scattered child's assignments. My thought is to have some kind of "what's new" feed in Family Access that would show this information

    Here are his ideas:

    My son has a history of not turning in assignments. On some of those assignments, he has no recollection until they show up in Skyward as missing. I keep a history of all assignments, when they first show up in Skyward,…

    12 votes

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  7. Attendance Mail Merge

    Similar to the mail merge in discipline, if you can create a freeform that will allow to create documents that pull student information directly from the student profile.

    This will be useful for all PA users in completing school attendance improvement plans which are required by the state. Users can create a standardized template that uploads fields with the student information.

    7 votes

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  8. LETTER ATTENDANCE TYPE

    Attendance Letters are sent by TYPE code only. We need the ability to send Attendance Letters by Type AND/OR Reason Codes. TYPE It works great for unexcused absences... but when we use the letters for CREDIT DENIAL WARNING based on 90% attendance, we need to pull by REASONS instead of Type because the 90% reason includes excused absences (dr appt, college visits, bad weather, military enlistment visit, etc. etc.--there are many).

    34 votes

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  9. Add family by Family ID number

    Allow the ability to add a family by Family ID number instead of by parent name. This would guarantee that you are adding the same family for a sibling.

    26 votes

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  10. Change of Address

    When a parent enters an address change via Family Access, it would be helpful for them to be able to attach 1-2 documents for Proof of Residency.

    23 votes

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  11. ed fi errors

    Create a new document with every ed-fi error and how to correct it in Skyward.

    9 votes

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  12. Mass Delete Portfolio Attachments

    Would like the Mass Delete Portfolio Attachments to allow deletion of Inactive students only based on Grad Year.

    9 votes

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  13. Tardy Kiosk Configuration Options.

    Add configuration options to allow the absent type/reason to follow the bell schedule. The bell schedule allows you to have a class start time and an absent time.

    i.e. They are marked tardy if absent less than 10 minutes and marked absent if they are more than 10 minutes.

    12 votes

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  14. we would like to be able to get an automated email whenever a portfolio attachment of specific types are added.

    we would like to be able to get an automated email whenever a portfolio attachment of specific types are added.

    7 votes

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  15. Allow skybuild to get the newest 15 Program/Services instead of the oldest.

    We have students with more than 15 entries in their Program/Services and since Skybuild returns the oldest 15, we cannot create skybuild reports that have their current info. The pic show a student of whom we cannot get any of his current Programs and Related Services data (the ones circled in red). Please change the order so we have access to atleast the most recent 15.

    6 votes

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  16. Custom Forms - Add Skyward Fields

    In the Student>Custom Forms, we would like to have some Skyward Fields added:

    Advisor
    Counselor
    Discipline Officer
    Teacher of Record
    CY Homeroom
    CY Homeroom Room Number
    CY Homeroom Teacher

    We would also like to have the option to choose how the student's name displays when we select the Student's Name field. Sometimes we will want to use the full name and sometimes we want just the first & last name.

    Thank you.

    12 votes

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  17. CTE Completion, Graduation, and Equity Reports

    As Career and Technical Education (CTE) pathways/programs and the number of students who are interested in the programs increase, so should the number of reports available.

    Our Department of Education is going to use CTE:

    Completion Rate

    Graduation Rate

    PostSecondary Outcome

    Equity

    rates to evaluate our programs. Similar to our State Testing, PSAT/SAT, and other testing situations where we need to verify testing accommodations and student status (IEP, Section 504, Lunch, and etc), we are going to have to verify the completion, graduation, and equity data.

    I would like Skyward to build reports that are capable of reporting out the…

    10 votes

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  18. Verify all email address fields

    For ALL emails fields, student details, Parent Details, Emergency Contacts, Staff and TEACHERS:
    Verify the validity of email address fields. As a Minimum:
    Don't allow commas
    Don't allow spaces
    Don't allow special characters like !,$,%
    Require a @ somewhere in the middle with text before and afterwards

    We have a lot of our extracts with vendors crash every year because of bad data entered into any of the email address fields.

    10 votes

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  19. Security to allow user to Administer Medications without being able to Add additional medications

    Our school nurses enter the medication in the Medication tab, but trained clerical and paras may administer the medication. Currently I cannot set security to allow a user to administer medication without allowing them access to add additional medication. We would like the ability to set security so only nurses can add, while trained users can administer.

    8 votes

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  20. Pulling previous year's data

    It is incredibly hard to pull data from previous school years in the system. Sometimes we have to go back to previous years in order to fill out information for grants, MDE, authorizer, etc and right now that's near impossible to do. I've used JMC in the past and they had a really easy tab that changed the year that you were operating in for data, Skyward needs something simple like that in order to go back to previous years to pull data when needed, or needs to be incorporated into the reporting system to add a box for what…

    22 votes

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