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  1. Civil Rights Report

    Make the printed report from the extract area in Civil Rights be like the maintain area. In maintain you see the totals and details of each category together. In the printed report you have to look for the details to go with the totals. Not logical at all!!!

    16 votes

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  2. attendance letter clone

    In the attendance letter setup - it would be great to have a clone button. Many attendance letters that get scheduled get scheduled either multiple times (each semester or quarter) or for different thresholds (5, 10, 15, etc).

    Knowing it is setup correctly and just needing to change the name, threshold or timeframe would make this area much more friendly to use. Lisa

    26 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Attendance  ·  Admin →
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  3. Local Race

    Get rid of Local Race all together (Profile > General Information). This is causing lots of confusion on campuses as to which one to use. We are not updating Local Race. In the process, Skyward needs to change the Auto Scheduler programming to use Federal Race instead of Local Race. As far as I know, that's the only program that is still using local race. Also, since this is "federal", this should affect all states, not just Texas.

    16 votes

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  4. Add a button within Field Selection that would allow a newly added field to be moved to the top.

    This is a qualify of life request but I would love to have a button added to the Field Select screen which would give the option to move a newly added field all the way to the top. Many times when I'm working with a complex data mining field, I find myself clicking the UP button over and over and over and over to move the field where I need it. Having a TOP button would save many clicks/time.

    14 votes

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  5. The ability to categorize reports and search within Data mining

    It would help to find reports in data mining if we could apply one of more categories (Grades, GPA, Discipline, Demographics, ect..) to individual reports. Also, the ability to search by either a category or key word in a report title.

    29 votes

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  6. New Student Online Enrollment with Custom Forms for Mobile Devices

    Please make it possible for parents/guardians to be able to fill out custom forms through the New Student Online Enrollment on a mobile device (phone, tablet, chromebook). As it stands, even on a chromebook, it is difficult to fill out the custom forms.

    19 votes

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  7. Add Period Fields To Discipline

    When a teacher puts in a Discipline we would like to be able to select what period this occurred.

    8 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Discipline  ·  Admin →
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  8. Customized Drop Down Menu for Withdrawal Notes

    The ability to customize reasons for withdrawal so it is easier to create a dashboard once you export out of skyward. Our superintendent wanted to know the top 5 reasons kids were withdrawing but since it is all typed manually not all statements were identical even if they were saying the same thing. Having a pre-made drop down menu would make this seemless.

    8 votes

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  9. Elementary A/B Honor Roll Report

    Elementary does not use GPA. It would be great if there was a report showing which students have all A's or B's in the core subjects (could prompt for course #'s?). Using the selected grades report now, but if the student has 1 A in 1 subject he will appear on the report and that would not qualify him as a A or B honor roll student.

    11 votes

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  10. TX - Curriculum Master - Mass Copy Curriculum Master Information Utility

    Please add the following to the Texas state specific fields to be updated area in the mass copy curriculum master information utility:
    Transcript Area
    Voc Ed Contact Hours
    College Credit Hours

    Currently the only option is service id, but many times updates are needed with these other fields. This would assist districts with updating courses over multiple years (such as current & future) for multiple campuses.

    8 votes

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  11. Career Plan - Additional options requested when printing the student career plan

    Would it be possible to have additional options when printing the Student Career Plan:
    1. Please include Counselors’ Name and Student ID to print at the top, just as the student name, alphakey, etc.
    2. Can the Declared Endorsement & Pathway be listed on the career plan report, up on the top of the page by the student name?
    3. Please allow to also sort by Subject Code when printing the career plan.
    4. Can we add to print “Course Type” that way we can see if the course was earned as DC, Summer School, Credit by Exam, Honors, AP…

    9 votes

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  12. Message Center - Expiration Date Irrelevant Messages

    Message Center - Expiration Date on Message - Some parents via Family Access have inquired if there was a way for the District to actually delete irrelevant messages that are being displayed via the message center in Family Access. We have advised parents that they are able HIDE messages that are no longer applicable but the question is if they can be deleted once their relevancy has expired? Users are able to RECALL expired messages and they then no longer appear in FA however it would be extremely helpful and convenient if users could at least have an "expiration date"…

    18 votes

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  13. Mass Print Registration Information After Approval

    This is actually for New and Returning Student Enrollment. We would like the ability to mass print the required forms/information for students' Cumulative folders after approving registrations. Much like batching, if a campus approves multiple enrollments for that day or week, they need to be able to easily print out those forms from registrations that have been approved. Right now, they have to either build a processing list to use with the Custom Forms/Student Information Report area, or manually add names that they need within the Reports area. It would be much more proficient to have the ability to print…

    16 votes

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  14. Open and close time period conferences in family access

    It would be great in family access configuration to have a way to set time period open and close for when guardians can sign up for conferences.

    14 votes

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  15. Report that shows students new to the district

    Every year our schools asked for a report on students that are brand new to not only there school but the district. It would be great to have one that can easily be ran.

    25 votes

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  16. Deleting data from custom forms.

    We need a utility that deletes data from all Custom Forms for every new school year instead of cloning the custom forms. Cloning a custom form can break any process that feeds from these forms.

    11 votes

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  17. Ability to have mandatory online form at first login.

    Getting parents to fill out emergency forms, computer acceptable use policies, etc. is burdensome. Other sites on the web make you click to accept their policies before entering the site. It would be a huge help to be able to require our parents to complete the forms prior to entering Skyward for the first time during the school year and for those forms to "pop up" on the screen so they wouldn't have to navigate through Skyward to find them.

    31 votes

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  18. Student Locator in Data Mining

    I would love the ability to data mine students current location. This could be useful anytime someone needed to find a group of students during a specific period of the day.

    7 votes

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  19. Mail Merge Data Mining into an Email

    It would be excellent if we were able to mail merge our data mining into an email home to parents. Right now it will only allow you to mail merge it into a template that must be printed. It would save the districts a lot of postage and man hours spent stuffing envelopes.

    22 votes

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  20. EMP - EMERGENCY ACTION PLAN Treatment Form

    Hello:
    Our District nurses have been reviewing IHPs in our database and they would like the ability to "streamline" medical steps necessary for treatment based on a student's health condition. Essentially they would like to have an Emergency Action Plan (EMP) Tab added, ideally, under the Emergency Tab in Skyward. This EMP would give specific straight forward steps for treating a student's medical condition. This would be a condensed straight forward approach for all staff member for treatment of a medical condition without having to read a lengthy technical IHP (Individual Health Plan). Possible idea of a custom form that…

    10 votes

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