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  1. hall pass - include signature image and email

    We would like to be able to email the Hall Pass from the Attendance tab in Student Profile directly to the student's current teacher. This would immediately let the teacher know that the student should be returning to class.
    We would also like to be able to insert an image of a signature on the pass so that it is signed when emailed or printed.
    The student's current teacher is displayed on the Hall Pass screen. If we could email it to the teacher either in addition to printing or in place of printing then the teacher would know exactly…

    28 votes

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  2. Add an Option to Select Grades Courses Only

    Add an option to the report to select grades courses only. Currently that option is not available and our Withdrawal Form prints out on 4 pages. The negative impact is that we cannot utilize this Skyward Report with its current options.
    Add a Course Selection field to select by either Range or Individual (just like the Student Selection option). Within the Ranges we would need the option to select graded courses only.
    Our expected outcome is that we would not have to create a custom form document for student withdrawals. We would be able to utilize the Skyward Canned Report.

    33 votes

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  3. online registration and parent order

    At this time only the 1st parent in the 1st family can do all of the updates. We normally put the dad in first and the mom in second but then mom who does all of the registration does not have access to all of the updates. I guarantee if we flip it to always mom we will have a dad that does all of the updates. because of this we spend a lot of time in the summer popping in to a family and changing the order if they bother to call us. I would prefer that both parents…

    90 votes

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  4. Two Level Authentication

    Subject - Two Level Authentication

    We would like Skyward to incorporate two level user authentication in each of the following areas (Employee Access/Student Access/Secured Access/NSOE/Skyward Finance/Skyward HR/Skyward Student). We need this authentication to be set up for internal and external users with a configuration for each district to select from the following three options "Internal Only" "External Only" "Both Internal and External" for each area listed above. This is important to school districts since most district's have single sign on (Active Directory Login) and if a user's login is compromised it would allow the person gaining this information to have…

    78 votes

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  5. Able to submit multiple random records for export

    There are many times when multiple students need PIMS corrections. Currenlty there is only the option to submit 1 individual or the whole entity.
    Be able to select students from a pick list in order to extract/maintain/export they PIMS data to the state.

    23 votes

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  6. case load factoring using DPI number

    Currently the report looked at the Disability Code and Primary Disability (Y/N) - as the fields that should be included in a Case Load Factoring report. At this time the students disability and environmental code are not a factor. I am submitting this as an RFE as it would be beneficial to have this report in skyward to manage caseloads of staff. Currently we manually have to run a report like this then add all of the caseload factoring numbers to the students based on environmental code and grade. This is time consuming for all involved. This report could help…

    34 votes

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  7. Attaching Document to Teacher Email

    Testing Coordinator among others is needing a quick easy way to send documents to all of a student's teachers. An email to all teachers can be sent through the current schedule tab but there is no way to attach a document.

    40 votes

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  8. Use Stu Discipline Officer in Tardy Discipline

    When using attendance letters to auto generate an offense for tardies (TAR) the setup will not allow the student's assigned discipline officer to be selected. It either has to be left blank or a specific name selected. This does not allow the offense to be easily viewed by the student's discipline officer. A filter could be created for blank offenses or an auto emails for this specific offense could be created but the discipline officers/assistant principals are already inundated with emails and don't want to have to frequently change their discipline filters.
    Allowing "Discipline Officer" to default to student's assigned…

    26 votes

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  9. PIMS: Extract a list of multiple students

    Often I have multiple students that I need to extract PIMS data for. Currently the PIMS extract templates only all for ranges of students or 1 student at at time. Literally hours of time will be saved by PIMS administrators if a list of students could be extracted at a time. This is common functionality in other SIS systems.
    Add a "By Individual" range option and then an "Individual" button" that allows the user to build a list of students. This setup/functionality is already found throughout Skyward. i.e. The Student Information report (WS\ST\RE\SI)

    33 votes

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    Thank you for submitting and voting this Product Idea. I have attached a Skyward Help Doc to assist. Please let me know if you still require additional assistance. Thanks.

  10. Auto Calculate Performance Acknowledgements

    Automatically Calculate Performance Acknowledgements.
    Create a program to automatically calculate performance acknowledgements. This was done by another district to use as an example. Please see attached handout from their TSUG session as well as the SSIS packages they are using.

    35 votes

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  11. Add an additional code

    If a student is late more than 20 minutes our district marks the student as absent. It would be so helpful if the tardy kiosk could be set up so that an additional code could be added in with set times each period to mark the student absent instead of tardy.
    This enhancement would save time for attendance secretaries who now have to run reports and then change the students tardy to an absence.

    67 votes

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  12. Creating Groups in Gradebook

    Our district has a need to create groups in the gradebook that can be changed throughout the year. It would be beneficial to us if when a student is marked "No Count" for an assignment it would not show in student or family access. Currently the only way to group students locks them there all year. That is not the case for us.

    22 votes

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  13. Printing Student Custom Forms in Student/Reports

    Under student/reports/custom forms when adding a new template the "custom form selection" box has all the old forms that are inactive. Can this be fixed to view by the current year instead of scrolling all the way thru the list? Yes some of the forms can be printed thru data mining but it's not the actual form as we would need to add to the student cumulative folder

    1. If the custom form is inactive then it should not be an option to select on the template.

    2. Add the year drop down option as in other templates so we can only…

    30 votes

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  14. Display Day 1/Day 2 schedule on calendar

    Goal:

    a) Display Day 1/Day 2/exceptions designations on a calendar for educators students and families.

    b) Allow exception days to be locked and exempted from recalculation of the Day1/Day2 rotation.

    c) Provide ability to designate a day as something other than Day1 or Day2 but still have it count as an instructional day

    Negative impact:

    a) Examples: Administrator wants to set up meeting with teacher who has prep only on Day1; parent wants to arrange rides for student who has off campus pass for a class that meets on Day2; teacher trying to set up a guest speaker for class…

    58 votes

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  15. Display Idaho State ID's in Family/Student Access

    Would it be possible to have the option to display Idaho state EDUIDs in Family/Guardian Access? We have a request from counselors that students applying for certain things need their state ID's.

    53 votes

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  16. Do not require all forms to be edited on a clone

    Many times when doing a review/revise only one or two areas of an IEP need to be adjusted - but as a result of cloning all forms need to be edited - this causes a lot of extra clicking in order to be able to print the entire review/revise IEP when only one page of the entire document may be updated

    28 votes

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  17. Lunch Calendar characters

    Currently we want to move to using the Lunch menu in Skyward but cannot because the calendar view does not support enough characters for us display the entire lunch so it can be viewed with clicking on it and printed
    Add more characters to the lunch calendar in the web access for Parents to view the menu. Make the menu printable so parents can view the lunches for the entire month.

    54 votes

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  18. Addition of Fields for Student Custom form

    We need to be able to include the following Student information on a student custom form - Home language code home language description and advisor name (typically associated with the entity).
    When setting up a student custom form we should be able to select these fields to be included on the custom form. We would expect the advisor name to be the one for the default entity.

    32 votes

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  19. All Health Conditions Report

    We have a concern regarding the All Health Condition Report. We need a document that we can quickly generate to send with EMS personnel when a student is being transported to the hospital. The All Health Conditions report would work if there was guardian/parent information that would also be an option to report. Our form must contain Student Info Guardian/Parent Info Health Conditions Medications.
    By adding an option to report guardian/parent information on the All Health Conditions Report our issue would be resolved. A data mining report only can be printed in an excel format because of the amount of…

    22 votes

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  20. option in gradebook to mark unscored as INCmissing

    As schools change their grading policies to eliminate the giving of zeros it makes sense to have an option to "mark all un-scored as missing and incomplete". This would be an additional button leaving the "mark un-scored as 0 and missing" or a way to change the function of that button.
    This option would be in response to latest educational practice which says zeros are unduly punitive and don't inspire students to follow up and do the work. An incomplete is no grade so if the student wants a grade they have to do something.
    I believe you could have…

    25 votes

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