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Student Management Suite

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  1. Withdraw Form

    Be able to edit Header of Withdrawal Form
    We need our entity address and phone number on our withdrawal form

    6 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Enrollment  ·  Admin →
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  2. NY registration and NY Grad Year Fee's

    When registering for NY, within the CY, the system should look at which year the application is being processed and apply those grad year fee's. Currently, the system only looks at the CY grad year fee's, which are different for our NY fee's, and applies CY grad year fee's for an application that has been approved for NY.

    This is not work around this except running a mass add fee daily and since this is a processing utility, it can not be scheduled. I have to physically go into 10 schools each day, re-create the ranges and set up the…

    8 votes

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  3. OneRoster export and OneRoster api student username options

    Please add the ability to choose which field is sent in the OneRoster Export within Skybuild for the student's username and the ability to add a prefix to that field.

    It currently exports the student's alphakey, but our district typically uses the student's other id for other software companies, since it doesn't change with a name change like the alphakey.

    For some companies, we use a combination of the otherid and a letter/number combo such as D87 in front of the student id number.

    Other districts use the student's state id number.

    Having the ability to customize which field is…

    6 votes

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    2 comments  ·  API  ·  Admin →
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  4. Custom Forms option to post specific to Entity

    It would be very helpful and improve efficiency if we could specify a custom form to show up in an individual entity, multiple entities, or the entire district. We have many CFs that are specific to the individual entity, and the list gets very long, and often repetitive when we have similar (but not identical) forms.

    16 votes

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  5. Add Comments Field to Attendance in Secondary GB

    Add a "Comments Field" in Attendance in the Secondary Gradebook so that when a teacher entered attendance they could also enter a comment next to that field to indicate the time a student actually arrived in class and there would be a record of it. This would help to hold kids accountable for when they arrive to class and also show a pattern for tardiness or absences.

    8 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Gradebook  ·  Admin →
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  6. Educator Access Plus Secondary Gradebook Reports

    It would be great if we could run the reports in educator access plus under the secondary gradebook for past years and not just the current year. If there is a question on a grade for the transcript on a previous year, we have to log in as the teacher to access it. And if the teacher left the district, we have to make them active, log in and then make them inactive.

    9 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Gradebook  ·  Admin →
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  7. Could there be a widget on staff dashboards that shows their lunch balances?

    Could there be a widget on staff dashboards that shows their lunch balances? Unless staff have their own children in school, they cannot see what their lunch balance is.

    18 votes

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  8. automatic emails home language

    When parents complete the Home Language Survey as part of Enrollment or Online Registration, it would be wonderful if an automatic email could be generated when the 'HLS Result' is set to 'Screen'. This could alert to correct staff members to follow-up more quickly with the family and student when needed.

    6 votes

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  9. Custom Report Card Colors and background

    Currently there are no options for changing the colors used for shading in the custom report cards. Report cards could be improved if shading is allowed in more than one color and options to change color with RGB code or HEXA-Decimal code. I would like to see changing colors / backgrounds option of any boxes / object in custom report cards.

    11 votes

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  10. 9 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Workflow  ·  Admin →
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  11. Create Permission Slips for Field Trips and Push Them Out to Family Access

    Our district would appreciate the ability to create permission slips for field trips via the Field Trip Master and push them out to family access so parents can sign them electronically. Ideally, the fields permission slip returned and date returned could reflect what transpires in family access. If that is not attainable, a report which would pull this information for us would be an important addition.

    15 votes

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  12. Superuser for NSOE Users

    We would like a “log in as” button for NSOE users.

    39 votes

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  13. Missing Assignment Report by student.

    We would like to print a report in Student Management that shows all missing assignments in all classes by student. With or without a description & teacher. For example, we would like to know how many students have 10 or more missing assignments.

    10 votes

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    2 comments  ·  Reporting  ·  Admin →
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  14. Automated Email for Student Language field to notify ELL

    Provide an auto-email option that looks at the Student Language field. If the student language field is something other than English, provide the ability to create an auto-email so that the staff in Special Services can evaluate the need for English Language Learner services.

    19 votes

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  15. Online Registration Set Up-Student Information

    Please add an option to Auto-approve the Home Phone under student information. I don't think it makes sense that the parent can have a name change auto-approve, but the home phone cannot.

    We would never want anyone to change the child's name, but do not mind them changing the home phone.

    29 votes

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    4 comments  ·  Student  ·  Admin →
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  16. Add Automated Email for when a food service application is added

    Requesting the ability to setup an automated email when a food service application is submitted by a parent in Family Access.

    17 votes

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  17. Under student profile, enhance the ranges options with a student indicator and choose the indicator (view all ELL students) etc.

    Under student profile, enhance the ranges options with a student indicator and choose the indicator (view all ELL students) etc.

    14 votes

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  18. Capability to give teachers access in their gradebooks to Physicals tab in Student Profile

    It would be extremely helpful if teachers could have the capability of having access to the Physicals tab in Student Profile from their gradebooks. This would be so coaches could have access to their scanned physicals. We know this is already an option for the Student Portfolio, but the problem is that we have scans in this area that they cannot legally see due to FERPA and HIPAA.

    8 votes

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    2 comments  ·  Gradebook  ·  Admin →
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  19. message center

    Message Center Alerts

    When a family posts a message to a teacher(s), alert the teacher via email. Or have the option to email the teacher directly through Family Access. Teachers are missing messages from the message center because they are not aware a parent sent them.

    30 votes

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  20. Year End

    It would be great to have one place to put in the calendar with holidays, begin and end terms, etc. and have it filter to any other area it needs to be.

    34 votes

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