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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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Student Management Suite

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  1. Make Skycode available for Educator Access Plus

    Would like to make the offense level mandatory on the teachers referral entry screen but Skycode is not available in this area.

    9 votes

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  2. Withdrawal Form

    We would like to be able to customize the student withdrawal form. We need to add some fields to the form in order for it to be useful. There are also some areas that are not pertinent.

    8 votes

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  3. While investigating a data import issue with a 3rd party data warehouse, I slowly discove With data security being an important focal point,

    While investigating a data import issue with a 3rd party data warehouse, I am slowly discovering the many ways 3rd parties can extract data from our Skyward database. With all the different ways 3rd parties can access our student data (APIs, ODBC, Scheduled Tasks, SkyBuild Exports, SIF), I'm worried about where my ignorance will get me in the event of a data breach. I am especially concerned that API access does not let us restrict or whitelist specific data fields 3rd parties have access to. It also cannot verify what data these 3rd parties are accessing.

    With data security being…

    9 votes

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  4. Delete Attendance Letters

    It would be so much easier to have secretaries delete attendance letters that have already generated if a student turns in the appropriate excuse. It is too risky to give them access to the Utility to Maintain because of the "Delete ALL Attendance Letters" option. We'd like to have the delete button right on the student profile- Attendance- Letters tab.

    13 votes

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  5. Expose IEP, FRL, ELL status in Clever API

    Clever has the ability to pull IEP Status, Free/Reduced Lunch Status, ELL Status but those field are not exposed on the Skyward API. If we could pass those data elements through Clever to certain applications we roster through Clever, we would be better able to effectively analyze student results and application effectiveness.

    7 votes

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  6. days present

    It would be helpful to have a field for attendance: Total Days Possible( based on students entry date) that could be added to Custom Report Cards and Transcripts. At the end of the year/semester it would be extremely helpful to see how many days a student was absent out of a total number of days possible based on their entry date.

    7 votes

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  7. Make Emergency Contacts Phone Number Required Step in On Line Reqistration

    During On Line Registration, require that at least one phone number be entered for any Emergency Contact that is added.

    11 votes

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  8. Make Primary Phone Required Entry During On Line Registration

    We have families that skip the Primary Phone section. This is vital information for the school office. We would like to see that be required to be filled in before the screen can move on.

    7 votes

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  9. Renaming Existing Custom Attendance Letters without cloning

    There are times we may need to rename an existing custom attendance letter without editing the content, such as we do with report templates at times, however, the only option is to clone/rename/delete the letter that is being renamed. Can the option be added to change the name of an existing custom attendance letter as needed? AT Letter>Config>select/edit - update the name?

    7 votes

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  10. Add RTI Interventions to Skybuild Export

    We would like the ability to export student RTI information specifically interventions with Skybuild. This will allow a teacher to enter an intervention for a specific program in EA+ and then nightly the students will be exported and populated into those systems.

    8 votes

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  11. During rollover maintain the placements in IEP's and update the dates

    The placements must be able to update the placements to the new year at rollover and update the date as the first day of school and the last day of the IEP or the last day of school. We have doing those one by one by hand. I am sure there is a utility, but was afraid to run the utility.

    8 votes

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  12. Increase Field length for Student Names

    With student names becoming increasingly longer and tied to so much testing, it would be nice to have the field length increased especially for middle and last names. Our district uses on-line enrollment and enters the full legal name (including middle) so that matching is easier to identify students without duplication, especially for or high mobility students. The length issue has primarily been with middle and last names (especially those that have 2 last names)

    93 votes

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    7 comments  ·  Student  ·  Admin →
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    We understand that the name field character limits could be longer, we are excited to announce that they have been extended on the Qmlativ product. We recommend that you use the Legal Name fields for those students whose names do not fit in the standard name fields. These legal names can be sent via state reporting. 

  13. More Automated Email Options

    Homeroom and Advisor changes should be on the scheduling or demographic changes for the student. Including it on the Enrollment changes isn't helpful at all because they aren't yet assigned to a homeroom when they are enrolled. So when a new student arrives, we have to go into Skyward to find their homeroom teacher or advisor.

    11 votes

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  14. Attendance taken by Alternate Instructor

    When attendance is take by the Alternate Instructor. the primary instructor is still getting an email that they have not taken attendance. We would like to be able to have the Alternate Instructor record attendance without receiving this type of email for the Primary Instructor when technically the attendance for this course has already been taken.

    28 votes

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  15. Allow teachers access to locker combos

    Teachers can view the locker number under the profile in Educator Access Plus. They often help their students with locker issues but do not have access to the combos. Please allow a turn on/off access through security at the building level.

    10 votes

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  16. Which parent is responsible for the payment of fees

    In the student set up have a check box or a field to indicate which parent is legally responsible for the payment of the fees. Usually a problem when there is a 2 family house hold.

    12 votes

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  17. Apply credit balance upon checkout

    When a students customer account has a credit balance on it allow the parent to use this credit balance upon check out in Family Access. Currently Family Access does not do a great job with visibility of a credit balance on an account. It should show in the list of current charges/credits so that parents are reminded that the credit exists.

    10 votes

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  18. family access bill codes

    When creating a bill code that you would like to have posted on Family Access there would be a check box right on the bill code set up screen to do this, rather than have to go into the family access set up tab and recreate the bill code.

    6 votes

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  19. Electronic Application

    Make the electronic Application less confusing when it comes to loading family members into the allowed spaces. Children in the top. Adults ONLY in the bottom. Do not allow them to duplicate names! Have an option to "add" more students. We have some families who are unable to submit it electronically due to having more kids in the household then spaces on form.

    Make it so their errors are highlighted before they are allowed to move onto the next screen. Many do no see the errors listed at the top of the final page. I have tons of applications just…

    8 votes

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  20. Pin number

    When running Class roster report, it would be nice to have the ability to add the student's pin number as an available option. Secretaries like to give the teachers, especially at the elementary levels, the students' pin numbers, as well as some of the other indicators that are already available to select in the Detail area. WS/OF/CS/RE/CR/CR

    7 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Scheduling  ·  Admin →
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    Great suggestion! While not directly on the Class Roster report run from Office, the student’s pin number could be something you enable teachers to run on their own class rosters from their gradebooks.

    Within the Educator Access Plus District Setup (WS\EA\PS\CF\DS), you can enable the option to “Allow Teachers to display Student’s Food Service Key Pad # on Class Roster.” With this set, when the teacher adds or modifies a template for the Class Roster report (from the Reports menu on the main screen of a gradebook), they will see a check box that allows them to print this information.

    Our Customer Consultant Specialists would be able to assist with any questions on these options. Thank you!

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